Tag: CERN
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CERN Scientists Are Turning Lead into Gold—But It’s Not What You Think
The ALICE experiment at CERN is indeed turning the dreams of yesteryear into a reality, though not quite in the way those medieval philosophers might have imagined. By smashing lead nuclei together at nearly the speed of light, they’ve managed to momentarily transmute lead into gold, albeit in a very minute quantity. This is not…