Alchemist's Dream Realized As Lead Turned Into Gold at Large Hadron Collider

[rcjordan]

https://www.newsweek.com/lhc-alice-cern-alchemy-large-hadron-collider-turns-lead-gold-2070245

^{Sooo... all the medieval alchemists needed was a Large Hadron Collider??}

[ergophobe]

>> medieval

And 600,000,000 gold florins worth of equipment in order to produce a nanogram of gold.

The medieval alchemists might have gone for it though. Mostly they were not looking to get rich, they were looking to achieve other things - immortality, spiritual advancement.

A famous alchemist shows up in the records of the tribunal I worked on. Total charlatan who shows up for deceiving a young girl into believing he was going to marry her. He was not yet a famous alchemist, but a dozen years later he pops up saying that he has perfected the Philosopher's Stone, promising everlasting life to those that would follow him.

He's dead.