/sci/ - Science & Math

We can make artificial diamond. We can blend steel. We can make plastic from oil.

Why can't we make gold? What specifically is limiting us from synthesizing (or whatever the word for this would be, I don't know it I admit) gold?

If the USA wants to exit its depression, we need to establish a way to manufacture gold, then suddenly pay off all our debts while the value for gold is high, permanently devaluing gold since our foreign enemies would eventually discover we were manufacturing it, and could make it (saturation).

We would crash the value of gold forever but we would save the USA's world dominance.

/sci/ why can't we do this? If nature can make gold, why the fuck can't we? It must be possible, but difficult, or it wouldn't exist at all.

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> Implying this didn't already happen and a flag wasn't already chosen.

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