CERN Confirms Lead-to-Gold Transmutation in Groundbreaking LHC Experiment

Scientists just used CERN to turn lead into gold for the first time

In a breakthrough that would envious medieval alchemists, scientists at Europe’s Large Hadron Collider have successfully transformed lead into gold, producing 89,000 atoms per second. Unlike traditional experiments that involve direct collisions of lead atoms, the ALICE team employed a unique method. By analyzing near-miss interactions where lead atoms narrowly avoid collision, researchers observed how […]

Alchemists Rejoice: In Historic Moment, Scientists Manage To Transform Lead Into Gold

Scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, have successfully transformed lead into gold using advanced particle acceleration techniques. The breakthrough, announced Wednesday, marks a stunning milestone in nuclear physics, though experts caution that the process remains far from practical for widespread use. The experiment, conducted in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), involved bombarding lead atoms with high-energy p…

How CERN’s collider achieved modern alchemy—turning lead to gold in a trillionth of a gram

Scientists at CERN use near-miss photon–nucleus collisions to create fleeting gold atoms, shedding light on rare nuclear processes & pushing limits of detector precision.

Physicists Turned Lead Into Gold—for a Fraction of a Second

Instead of using the Large Hadron Collider to smash atoms together, researchers briefly turned lead into gold by facilitating near-misses.

Scientists solve alchemy and turn lead into gold, but there's a big catch

Hermes Trismegistus, Nicolas Flamel, and John Dee are popping open the champagne in the afterlife right now as, after thousands of years of alchemical experimentation, man has finally succeeded in turning lead into gold. This process, known by alchemists are chrysopoeia, was one of the fundamental goals of alchemy. For countless hours bearded men worked by candlelight amidst bizarrely shaped glass beakers, roasting smelting furnaces, and curious…

Scientists Accidentally Turned Lead Into Gold

Goldfinger The mad geniuses over at CERN have accomplished what alchemists of yore never could: they turned lead into gold. As detailed in a paper published last week in the journal Physical Review C, researchers working with the European Organization for Nuclear Research's (CERN) atom-annihilating Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accidentally transformed humble lead into temporary gold nuclei. The researchers are part of CERN's A Large Ion Collider …