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US Startup Claims It Can Make Gold Using Fusion Technology


The alchemist's dream is to make gold from common metals, but can this be done? The physics needed to explain how to change one element into another is well understood and has been used for decades in accelerators and colliders, which smash subatomic particles together.

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