Can gold be artifically created?

Um..yeah they actually are "radioactive" but the term is used in a different sense than you think it doesn't mean that it is killing you..
Perhaps this will help you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_decay

But all that it refers to is stability and what you are thinking of are highly radioactive elements that emit gamma rays..with a relatively short half life

 

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You guys don't get what I am saying lol...all I am saying is it is possible for example if In (element 49) goes to alpha decay it will form Au (element 47) and (He) 2+ (missing two electrons does not affect weight)

 

Lets not let this escalate I was just trying to help, if you want read about alpha beta and gamma radiation its actually relatively interesting

 

I do radon testing as part of my business. Plus I took chemistry and physics in college. I am very knowledgeable about alpha, beta and gamma radiation.

 

I am by no means questioning your knowledge lol...all I was saying this whole time is it is THEORETICALLY possible..

 

Until the early 1900s and Einstein, it was thought that matter could be created or destroyed.

Einstein introduced the relationship between energy and mass and said it could be transformed, but not destroyed or created, e=Mc^2.

Modern Quantum theory says there are only wave functions of an informational carrying wave that can appear to be either matter or energy,depending on how they are measured and time nor distance has no binding effects. Modern lab experiments with "entanglement" seems to confirm this theory.

IMHO

Jim

 

I am missing what you are referring to in that article. They were not called radioactive when I took the courses 40 years ago. And, no, I was not thinking of highly radioactive elements. Carbon-14 is radioactive. Even potassium 40 with a half life of 1,250,000,000 years. But you get beyond that and.............. BTW, you are talking massive orders beyond that.

 

I will tell you how, I will show you how.
Although you must give me your first born now.

Yours truly,
Rumpelstiltskin

cc: Midas

 

Not quite sure I understand what they are saying but here is an explanation that I found....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_synthesis

 

For starters, you need some eye of newt.... then add the dragons tongue... THEN add your lead and dance around the contraption 3 times while hitting yourself in the head with a wood cutting board and singing "walk of life" backwards.....

 

My vague recollection of the process included a spinning wheel and straw.......

 

sure, but that all stopped years ago.... the cutting board is SOOOOO much more efficient....

 

Isn't Gold a product of exploding suns? Duplicating the process should not be hard ROFL.

 

Technically all elements could be considered to be "radioactive" since the very protons they are made of in theory undergo decay. But the halflife of the proton is on the order of 1X10^30 years so for all practical purposes it can be ignored.

 

hey lucky for us we have one of those..... when should we start?

 

I believe that our folks are saying that it is theoretically possible, it simply isn't practical for something like gold.

 

What about silver?

 

I thought that it grew on trees. Oh, thats Gold leaf.

 

All elements are formed in Suns, Unlike diamonds that are just a form of the element Carbon.

 

even less practical for Ag, as it's relatively cheap.

Bear in mind that, at the least, you're talking about multi-billion dollar atom smashers here. Far cheaper to just dig the crap from the ground.