it's well known that neutron and protons can be addd or removed with particle accelerators.

what's not well known is that the USA spends huge ammounts to maintain high energy physics accelerators here and abroad using tax money (and we have many foreigners here on usa "science budget" money)

easily, off schedule, these machines can be running making UNREPORTED GOLD.

sure it would not be economical to make gold that way. but they aren't using their money: they're using YOUR money. and they aren't saying any was made - just giving us science report about particles appearing and dissapearing

There's just one problem with this conspiracy theory, which is that the amounts of gold that can be manufactured in a particle accelerator are miniscule.
From Real Clear Science http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2012/09/modern-day-alchemists-routinely-make-gold.html:

The particle accelerator GSI in Germany can create an astounding two million new gold atoms each second, prompting the obvious question, "Where are physicists hoarding all of that bling?"

The answer of course is that there isn't much bling produced in the first place. Two million atoms of "Au" may sound like a lot, but because those atoms are so infinitesimally small, GSI would have to operate around-the-clock for 50 million years just to produce one gram of gold!

So, even if a bunch of scientists and government officials were engaged in this kind of a conspiracy, foisting off all of the energy and other production costs of producing gold onto the taxpayers, they'd still be limited by the paltry yields of the process.

Here we go with the Tin Foil hat club again.....FFU is proof positive that there is not enough treatment centers for the mentally Ill.

>sure it would not be economical to make gold that way. but they aren't using their money: they're using YOUR money

So just buy foreign gold instead. Did you really think the government was buying $600 hammers?

obviously since uranium is enriched in huge quantities

and household iodine comes from nuclear reactor 1/2 life

scientists in europe are not going to say in what quantity they can make gold , any more than a gold mine is going to tell the market how much gold they might release that's in holding in mine, that is not yet known on the market, when "the market is ripe to offload allot people didn't know existed"

making gold out of lead is as old as alchemy. there's even a place in texas that makes gold and platinum out of thrown away catalytic converters

democrats always get real silent whenever the topic of metals in the "trash" that fx homeowners are not paid for is mentioned - like how much the metal is sold for or to what (hostile) country it went to and whether usa is struggling on metals due to it. or why we have no deposit/return on it.

7dp73 Wrote:
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> obviously since uranium is enriched in huge
> quantities
>
> and household iodine comes from nuclear reactor
> 1/2 life
>
> scientists in europe are not going to say in what
> quantity they can make gold , any more than a gold
> mine is going to tell the market how much gold
> they might release that's in holding in mine, that
> is not yet known on the market, when "the market
> is ripe to offload allot people didn't know
> existed"
>
> making gold out of lead is as old as alchemy.
> there's even a place in texas that makes gold and
> platinum out of thrown away catalytic converters


Good god, the education system in this country is fucked up.

"as old as alchemy" - no alchemist (nor any other chemist) has ever transmuted elements.

"makes gold and platinum out of thrown away catalytic converters" - they're not making gold and platinum. They're extracting the metals that remain in the converter after its disposed.

"and household iodine comes from nuclear reactor" - no it doesn't. Household iodine is not produced in a nuclear reactor. Iodine 131, which is radioactive and has a lot of medical and industrial uses, is produced in a reactor. so what?

"uranium is enriched in huge quantities" - this is also NOT trasmutation of elemental uranium. Uranium enrichment is increasing the percentage of U235 in natural uranium, not changing U238 to U235.

Sigh.

"You should buy gold. Don't you sheeple know that the U.S. Dollar is a fiat currency? It has no real value!"

Why exactly does gold have value?

"BECAUSE IT'S GOLD, YOU IDIOT! GAWWD."

I'M A FIVE-STAR MAN!!