Transform lead into gold. Many people (mainly) have imagined in alchemists, fed with the stories of Nicolas Flamel. This dream has come true thanks to CERN physicists. Finally … the time of a second fraction.
“With the advent of nuclear physics in the twentieth century, it seemed that heavy elements could become others, either naturally, due to radioactive disintegration, or in the laboratory, under a bombardment of neutrons or protons,” evokes the European organization for nuclear research. Although gold has already occurred artificially in this way, Alice collaboration [un détecteur spécialisé dans la physique des ions lourds] Now the transmutation of golden lead has been measured by means of a new process based on quasi-collisions of lead nuclei. »
The explanation is a bit technical, but, in a nutshell, a lead core contains 82 protons. A golden core 89. Due to the very big …