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Old 02-19-2010, 12:57 PM  
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Originally Posted by TheDoc View Post
We can make gold, they can make diamonds, they have patents on the machines, xerox owns the one on the diamond machine. They can duplicate any object/element if they know the process it takes to create it or have the mathematical pattern of the object.
Unrelated to the religious argument, is it really true we can make gold?

I know we can make diamonds, but I don't think gold can be made synthetically.

Maybe... but this is the first I'm hearing about it.

I just read this online...

Gold is an element, as is carbon. Graphite is a form of carbon. Diamond is a form of carbon. Graphite and diamond are two different arrangements of carbon atoms. We can reform carbon from graphite into diamond, but there is nothing to reform to make gold.

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