{"id":40240,"date":"2025-05-13T22:21:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T02:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=40240"},"modified":"2025-05-13T22:21:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T02:21:48","slug":"transmuting-lead-into-gold-cerns-large-hadron-collider-achieves-alchemists-dreams-for-a-fraction-of-a-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=40240","title":{"rendered":"Transmuting Lead into Gold, CERN&#8217;s Large Hadron Collider Achieves Alchemist\u2019s Dreams for a Fraction of a Second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CERN-Large-Hadron-Collider.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"195\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has momentarily transformed lead into gold, the long-sought-after goal of medieval alchemists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/thedebrief.org\/transmuting-lead-into-gold-cerns-large-hadron-collider-achieves-alchemists-dreams-for-a-fraction-of-a-second\/\">Transmuting Lead into Gold, CERN&#8217;s Large Hadron Collider Achieves Alchemist\u2019s Dreams for a Fraction of a Second<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>tl;dr: how much gold?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>After analyzing data from 2015 to 2018, the ALICE team estimated that the LHC created approximately 86 billion gold nuclei during four separate experiments. Still, that equates to just 29 trillionths of a gram\u2014nowhere near enough to make even a speck of jewelry. Even with recent LHC upgrades increasing production rates, the amount of gold produced remains vanishingly small.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>for funsies, I will attempt to read <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prc\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevC.111.054906\" target=\"_blank\">the paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CERN\u2019s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has momentarily transformed lead into gold, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[422,1269,225],"class_list":["post-40240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-gold","tag-lhc","tag-neat","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40243,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40240\/revisions\/40243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}