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whats stopping us from making a machine that can change the atoms and shit of elements so we can make something even like dirt to gold or diamonds?
>>14506473>usyou don't have enough money, knowledge or ability to do what you're asking for or even to contribute to covering a small share of the burden, the people who do have what it takes are not interested in sharing their hard earned wealth with you
>>14506473Energy costs, cheaper to find gold that already exists than to make new gold.
If you throw neutrons at an atom in attempt to make it bigger, the only thing you're going to accomplish, if anything, is having it go fubar.
>>14506473>It's simple, we uhhhh change the atoms
>>14506473I recommend reading up on basic nuclear physics
>>14506545kek
>>14506473People will be doing this far in the future.We'll be fabricating complex things atom by atom from raw materials, like 3D printing.I think this is inevitable far in the future
>>14506473I think they did do an experiment where they transmuted something into gold but it was on a scale so small that it wasn't practical.
>>14506707yup. the amount produced was not worth the energy cost, but it is possible.what's worse is that these valuable materials are only costly because of their rarity
>>14506713we just need to locate a giant golden asteroid and capture it then
>>14506545based and very true
>>14506718I imagine there are actually huge chunks of gold floating around out there, but what happens if we found one and mined it and gold is no longer rare?
>>14506740you just do it like the diamond market and hoard itnation states can hold it in reserve and then go back to gold standard
>>14506473Uncertainty principle. Do you even copenhagen
>>14506528ThisWe can already make gold and diamonds with neutron irradiation. It's just really expensive.
>>14506718Here ya go friendhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_PsycheOnly thing we need to do now is capture it.
>>14506473Sure let me drive down to the household appliance store and buy a nanofabricator
Synthetic diamonds are already real and being sold, they're less desirable because no African child was maimed because of it
>>14506473The machine is called a particle accelerator and we don't use it for that because it turns out it's a waste of time to be fucking around with atoms when you can just dig gold and diamonds by the kilo straight out of the ground.
>>14506795Diamonds are easier, it's just an arrangement of carbon.The entire diamond industry is one huge scam that is controlled by a handful of Jew llers.Remember to spend 3 months salary on your engagement ring, rules is rules