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- From: farris@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Lorenzo Farris)
- Newsgroups: alt.magick
- Subject: Re: Alchemy
- Summary: not in my science ;-)
- Message-ID: <Jan.23.09.02.12.1993.14270@ruhets.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 14:02:13 GMT
- References: <JOSHUA.93Jan18110540@bailey.cpac.washington.edu> <C19Fr2.45z@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- I have had a couple of e-mail exchanges regarding the possibility of
- transmutation of elements. I'll give the reader's digest version of
- what I had to say here.
-
- There is *no* process known in modern physics or chemistry whereby one
- element can be transmuted into another, except in extremely minute
- quantities. These quantities can be produced by exposure to
- radiation. In particular, there is *no* known chemical process, at
- all, that could do this.
-
- Please do not take this as a statement that I don't believe the
- transmutation is possible. Rather, for anyone that thinks they can
- find a basis in modern science, I wish to point out that it has a way
- to go before it could give the stated results of the literal
- interpretation of western alchemical texts.
-
- If anyone does manage to achieve this, besides all the other perks,
- one could have lasting fame and a nobel prize as well. ;-)
-
- your friendly neighborhood nuclear physicist,
- Lorenzo
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