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Alchemy is so hot right now. (mander.xyz)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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[–] 55 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Infinite gold would be useful for electronics, but it would destroy gold's utility as a long-term store of value. So the wealth for shareholders would be finite, taken from today's gold holders.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    So we use silver

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    I'm no physicist, but it seems like once transmutation is a thing, it won't stop here.

    It would be like a quantum computer breaking Bitcoin and so we fall back on Ethereum.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I don't know, if you gather one proton's and two neutrons worth of energy, localized entirely within the supposed space of an atom, you could generate mass from energy. However, what that energy converts into, is entirely random, so I would guess most of the time you just get realllly high energy photons out of it.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    so we just smash thosse photons into each other until we get a hydrogen! by josh you're onto something

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    You have seen the equations? 99% you don't get anything useful or somehow split the fucking universe, so that time-reversed flow of information won't break the causality. (And it fucking does break the universe, the local bubble we are in. Please, don't google false-vacuum.) We don't even know the speed of light in one-direction, because information travels at the fucking speed of light, whatever that is. Yet, you measure a spin of electron, and the other fucker in the opposite side of the universe, is known to be opposite in the instant.

    The action is minimized by nature, in one way or other, even if this means punching a hole in the space-time continuum, to start a tree-of-universes descending from the host.

    /s (I had enough beer for today.)

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