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Message:: [QUOTE="Drusus, post: 309487, member: 6370"]yeah, I was going to mention that, it is possible to create new elements (or ones previously unknown to us) and change atomic structure but it would be so cost restrictive as not to be worth the effort, plus there are other problems that have to be over come to make the element stable. It was explained to me in complex terms the problems that present themselves trying to make gold. Again though, it is nothing one can do in a beaker with chemicals... For instance the Element Californium which has a half life of 44 minutes has a $27 million per gram price tag, only 8 grams of 252Cf  have been made. It is produced from plutonium. This process is far easier and cheaper than it would be to make gold from lead or iron...  Through particle acceleration, elements that were previously unknown have been discovered...elements that exist for mere minutes and seconds during a reaction like supernova. These elements only exist for the small amount of time that the reaction is taking place (hours, minutes and seconds in time before decay) thus they do not exist on earth and can only be recorded in a supernova or after certain reactions produced in a supercollider or a nuclear reaction As for gold from seawater...gold can be extracted from many things even a human being as we have trace amounts of gold within us as well....[/QUOTE]