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A San Francisco startup turned mercury into radioactive gold
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btw alchemists have tried to turn metal into gold for 2,000 years (Isaac Newton literally spent decades and wrote a million words about it) this SF startup finally cracked it, and beat CERN's record by 10x here's the dummies version of how it works: > they build a mini sun (a fusion reactor) > the mini sun shoots out tiny particles > mercury atoms have 80 protons and gold atoms have 79 > when a particle hits a mercury atom, it throws the atom off balance, and a few days later the atom…
MarathonFusion@MarathonFusion3d ago
Last month, we demonstrated high-rate alchemy: turning mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN’s record by a factor of 10. Last week, we enriched isotopes in the world’s most powerful plasma centrifuge, beating the Soviet record that stood for 40 years. Now, we’re building a fusion reactor in San Francisco to achieve record power density.
