That's what all this has been about‽ Fuckin' alchemists.
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They've played us all for fools, THEY'RE CONSTRUCTING THE FIFTH ELEMENT UNDER SWITZERLAND
The Chinese discovered all five elements ages ago
the elusive fifth element:
Multipass!
Unfortunately, some of the more fundamentalist groups are going to see this as another sign the LHC is of the Devil
In response, scientists should do a billion more runs to generate checks notes still less than one gram of gold
We should put them in the LHC so they can see for themselves
still less than one gram of gold
the 29 picograms they made is such a small mass that it's almost a misnomer to describe it in these terms even. it's an amount that all balled up together would still be only about 1 micrometer across.
I suppose it would have technically been more accurate to say that 34 billion more runs generating 29 picograms would be still less than a gram.
Even if they somehow managed to do that many billions of runs though to get a single gram of gold, even then I don't think it would be worth trying to bother separating any of the gold generated from the other products.
You just brought back terrible memories
Fundies vs. Pop Science Journalists
Some already believe that they are opening a portal to hell in CERN and have a direct connection with the devil.
that's pretty cool. this is one of those things where it's not the actual point of the study, but it's the "in" that gets the public to read an article about a complicated and nuanced scientific experiment. the value in doing this is less "we made gold" and more "we can do a sophisticated enough analysis to observe this interesting high mass nuclear reaction with our detector/experiment."
WE'RE IN 1320 MOTHERFUCKER ALCHEMY IS SO BACK
I am a serf but I must transmute 
That Twilight Zone episode where gold has no value in the future because they found out how to manufacture it.
You're forgetting about gold-pressed Latinum.
27 KM of tunnels underground
designed with mind to send protons arround
My god that is a blast from the past
It might honestly be older than some people on this site.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Good. I saw some study that a lead-like nucleus got made into a couple atoms of gold. If humanity hadn't done it by time I was no longer a temporarily embarrassed millionaire I would have done it.
goldbugs in shambles
I'm not very smart someone please tell me what this means for my iraqi dinars