Bam! World’s largest atom smasher turns lead into gold

World’s largest atom smasher turns lead into gold. Alchemy’s greatest moment is here.

Peter Schiff should get nervous when reading this.

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Physicists at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have revealed, for the first time, the direct measurement of lead being transformed into gold during high-energy particle collisions.

“Thanks to the unique capabilities of the ALICE ZDCs, the present analysis is the first to systematically detect and analyse the signature of gold production at the LHC experimentally,” said Uliana Dmitrieva of the ALICE collaboration.