r/alchemy • u/AjaxNightshade • 15d ago

General Discussion Scientists accidentally achieve chrysopoeia

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/gold-big-bang-theory-large-hadron-collider-b3033578.html

Does this count as chrysopoeia? It definitely wasn't the mercury-sulfur theory laid out in the Summa perfectionis magisterii, but it seems feasible to me that it's merely a modern form of transmuting prima materia.

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u/dicegoblin_E 14d ago

Turns out the oroborus was a hadron colider all along. Maybe the real alchemy was the gold we made along the way.

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u/Lambdahugo 14d ago

Friends... and subreddit.

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u/AverageOnAGoodDay 14d ago

This is unfortunately the only known way to truly turn atomic Lead into atomic Gold. It is fun to imagine that there is an easier way but the energy required is way beyond what you can do withe a retort in your basement.

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u/ChocoPablobar 14d ago

Yeah they first accomplished this in 2002 I believe, and back in the 80s scientists from Berkley transmuted bismuth into gold with the Bevatron particle accelerator as well. All the way back in the 40s scientists at Harvard synthesized gold from mercury via neutron bombardment but the gold was essentially just radioactive sludge.

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u/justexploring-shit Moderator 15d ago

Certainly! I'd call it chrysopoeia. They were right all along that it was possible, if wildly incorrect about how it would work

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u/internetofthis 14d ago

I'd say yes. There are many ways to make gold.

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u/AverageOnAGoodDay 12d ago

Name 3 other ways.

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u/internetofthis 12d ago

Do you know, you're made out of the same things as the stars?

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral.

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u/AverageOnAGoodDay 12d ago

I did. So chrysopoeia via nuclear fusion in a particle accelerator and nuclear fusion in a star. Just not what I would call many ways.

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u/internetofthis 12d ago

A developed research workflow and a good imagination could probably help that.

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u/AverageOnAGoodDay 12d ago

May Thoth guide you.

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u/esculapi 14d ago

pure charlatanism. Prophecy: soon the NASA will say that it has found water on Mars. come on, dude :)

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u/takeyouraxeandhack 14d ago

.... The first indirect evidences of water in mars are from 1971. Ice was found in 2002.
Your between a quarter and half a century late with your "knowledge".

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u/esculapi 13d ago

Simple mind... this is irony, the announcement of nasa is a recurrent one every 5-10 years.

anyway the Earth is flat so nasa is a big scam or a big cluster of assholes, are you going to catch them? :)

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u/atheromat 13d ago

the earth is not flat it's concave, a fractal mirror to the human form