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To: Metacomet who wrote (96944)	12/4/2012 12:07:18 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 219935

Duplicate post as connection lost [part of post went missing too].eom Mqurice

To: Metacomet who wrote (96944)	12/4/2012 12:08:42 PM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219935

Nature only does what it does. Being not very intelligent, it goes at it with a sledgehammer: <Only in a supernova is it possible to create atoms with 30 protons, 40 protons, 50 protons or even 60 protons. Nature prefers even numbers for stability, > And the stars are making a lot more than just gold. They make titanium for A380s, aluminium for Coca Cola cans, silicon and germanium for Qualcomm chips, copper to conduct electricity, magnesium for wheels, not to mention carbon for us to eat and add to our DNA stores. When people say "Nobody knows" they mean they don't know. When they say "only in a supernova" they mean they have no ideas other than what they see happening around them. But they don't want to couch things in terms of their own limitations so they assign their limitations to everyone. That's how we get Big Brother government. That's why ignorant bossy people try to get to be in charge of other people. Nature hired humans to do the heavy lifting, which paradoxically we do with our brains which even with our puny bodies can't lift much at all. So we build machines. We are so smart that we are now building machines to replace our puny brains, having build muscle replacement during the industrial revolution. Cranes can lift things to the top of the tallest building. Google can remember even more than me, and recall it a lot faster. Then whizz it around Cyberspace to the nodes wanting the data. Gaia hired humans to recycle carbon back into the ecosphere by restoring the atmosphere and to invent suprasomatic intelligence. You are thinking in terms of the olde time alchemists by thinking of a bucket of oil and a blowtorch. My method involves top secret control of the four forces of the apocalypse. You have heard of antimatter. It is not science fiction. Here is how they make cold antiprotons: <The overall cooling process is workable, but highly inefficient; approximately 25 million antiprotons leave the Antiproton Decelerator and roughly 25,000 make it to the Penning-Malmberg trap, which is about 1/1000 or 0.1% of the original amount. The antiprotons are still hot when initially trapped. To cool them further, they are mixed into an electron plasma. The electrons in this plasma cool via cyclotron radiation, and then sympathetically cool the antiprotons via Coulomb collisions. Eventually, the electrons are removed by the application of short-duration electric fields, leaving the antiprotons with energies less than 100 meV. [26]While the antiprotons are being cooled in the first trap, a small cloud of positrons is captured from radioactive sodium in a Surko-style positron accumulator. [27] This cloud is then recaptured in a second trap near the antiprotons. Manipulations of the trap electrodes then tip the antiprotons into the positron plasma, where some combine with antiprotons to form antihydrogen. This neutral antihydrogen is unaffected by the electric and magnetic fields used to trap the charged positrons and antiprotons, and within a few microseconds the antihydrogen hits the trap walls, where it annihilates. Some hundreds of millions of antihydrogen atoms have been made in this fashion. Most of the sought-after high-precision tests of the properties of antihydrogen could only be performed if the antihydrogen were trapped, that is, held in place for a relatively long time. While antihydrogen atoms are electrically neutral, the spins of their component particles produce a magnetic moment. These magnetic moments can interact with an inhomogeneous magnetic field; some of the antihydrogen atoms can be attracted to a magnetic minimum. Such a minimum can be created by a combination of mirror and multipole fields. [28]Antihydrogen can be trapped in such a magnetic minimum (minimum-B) trap; in November 2010, the ALPHA collaboration announced that they had so trapped 38 antihydrogen atoms for about a sixth of a second. [29] [30] This was the first time that neutral antimatter had been trapped. > I'm not after cold anti-protons, I am after gold. My anti-protons need last only long enough to dive into lead or mercury to strip off a proton or a few to get to gold or platinum. But better still is to add protons to iron. There is no shortage of iron and there is plenty of hydrogen in the sea. They are so cheap they are almost free. TJ carts truckloads of rocks hundreds of kilometres to get a minuscule amount of gold after a lot of effort. It's easier to get scrap iron [old ships due for recycling, full of old cars for example] and water [suck it straight out of the ocean] than even rocks, let alone the gold in the rocks. Send money and you can get in on the ground floor. We can buy the Brooklyn Bridge and turn it into gold instead of steel, a girder at a time. Then it won't rust. It would look swishy too. Everyone in India could have all the gold jewelry they like. Mqurice PS: I'm kidding about the Brooklyn Bridge, because gold wouldn't really make a good bridge construction material. But they are due to build a new one so we might as well buy the old one. It's handy to the water so it could easily be delivered by sea to our factory. I'm offering my usual double your money back guarantee so you can send money with confidence.