[gruntledfangler]

“ Lab diamonds are a testament to the principle that what nature can do, man is capable of doing better.”

Profound hubris in an otherwise interesting article.

[indoordin0saur]

Would love to see us turn iron into gold as well as nature does with supernovas.

[cyberax]

You can do that in an accelerator. It's not going to be cost-effective for a long time, though.

Once we get to asteroid mining, we'll be able to get gold cheaply enough to not care about it. On Earth, most of the gold sank into the planet's core because it dissolves well in molten iron. So the gold that we're mining comes mostly from meteorites.

[para_parolu]

I thought this is possible and theory is well known. It just to expensive compared to mining

[bell-cot]

Doing "better" isn't so hard...when you get to pick the metric.