Is this possibly true? Synthetic gold and silver?
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Did some minor research on this a few weeks ago.
Synthetic gold or silver is impractical. It is many thousand time more expensive to produce than mined product.
Was just coming here to say ^this^.
I am sure you would have said it more eloquently than me.
Correct, Glenn Seaborg (aka Sg 106) created the philosopher's stone in 1980 with the first proven technique that would convert lead atoms directly to gold via C-Ne bombardment. However, when they did the actual experiment they decided to create bismuth instead (thousands of atoms) because it was a little easier. So the cost of the philosopher's stone is now way down, from infinity to only in the range of octillions of dollars or something, close to the Death Star total costs. I'm sure you noticed the ripple in the gold market due to such a significant revaluation, which is probably the same as any newer technique would generate. Or maybe you didn't and it was just the Hunt brothers.
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Thank you.
IDK, TAE is now sooo close to nuclear fusion, transmutation can't be too far off...