do you think it will be possible to become an alchemist?

[SpatiallyAware]

All you need is an M3, and someone else's Mom. Oh, and you need to be old as shit.

FWIW that is maybe 25% of crap poor Alky has been through.

 

[DrPizza]

IBM made a movie using nothing but atoms. If manipulating atoms at this level is possible I imagine creating molecules is. I guess the question is, how to make it efficient and fast.

There may possibly be a faster process we just have to discover. For example you can convert water into hydrogen and oxygen using electrolysis. Very easy to do. Perhaps there is a process to create by products, one of them being gold. Figure that out, and we're golden. Literally.

Are you implying that gold is a molecule made out of some other sort of atoms?

And, you're giving examples of chemical processes - water into oxygen and hydrogen. Not nuclear processes.

To try to explain it to you, your examples are like being able to mix food coloring to make different colors, or unmixing food coloring to get specific ingredient colors back. Turning lead into gold would be like mixing food colorings together and getting steel.

 

[moonbogg]

If it can be thought of, it can be done eventually.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Are you implying that gold is a molecule made out of some other sort of atoms?

And, you're giving examples of chemical processes - water into oxygen and hydrogen. Not nuclear processes.

To try to explain it to you, your examples are like being able to mix food coloring to make different colors, or unmixing food coloring to get specific ingredient colors back. Turning lead into gold would be like mixing food colorings together and getting steel.

No, it was just an example... I know that electrolysis would not work. What I meant was, maybe there is a process or procedure that can create gold somehow from other types of atoms. Chances are it would have to be a more complex process given it would have to alter actual atoms. And from the sounds of it this process already exists but did not know at the time I did that post.

 

[SagaLore]

FYI, we'd have an easier time turning Mercury into Gold by supercooling Mercury and bombarding it with accelerated deutrons.

 

[alkemyst]

All you need is an M3, and someone else's Mom. Oh, and you need to be old as shit.

42 is old as shit?

 

[alkemyst]

FYI, we'd have an easier time turning Mercury into Gold by supercooling Mercury and bombarding it with accelerated deutrons.

I could pee on it.

 

[alkemyst]

FWIW that is maybe 25% of crap poor Alky has been through.

Your mom hardly adds up to 25% of what I have been through.

 

[SagaLore]

I could pee on it.

With the amount of alcohol your liver and kidneys have to deal with I don't doubt that your urine on some mercury would cause some cataclysmic reaction.

 

[Schmide]

I don't know if I'd give up my brothers body and an arm and leg? Well maybe.

 

[Xellos2099]

I don't know if I'd give up my brothers body and an arm and leg? Well maybe.

I KNEW someone is going to made FMA reference.