“Alchemy” In Action As CERN Detects Lead Atoms Turning Into Gold
The ALICE experiment of the Large Hadron Collider ( LHC ) looks at what happens when heavy ion smash together . Mostly , it is to understand the quark - gluon plasma that subsist in the first import after the Big Bang . But bang up lead ion together can go against those atoms into more commonly recognisable form , such as the conversion of hint to amber . This is no alchemy transmutation of lead into atomic number 79 , but nuclear transformation ....