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ALICE detects the conversion of lead into gold at the LHC
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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
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.