btw alchemists have tried to turn metal into gold for 2,000 years (Isaac Newton literally spent decades and wrote a million words about it) this SF startup finally cracked it, and beat CERN's record by 10x here's the dummies version of how it works: > they build a mini sun (a fusion reactor) > the mini sun shoots out tiny particles > mercury atoms have 80 protons and gold atoms have 79 > when a particle hits a mercury atom, it throws the atom off balance, and a few days later the atom…