HELP

[Johnny Anarcho]

I've decided to become an Alchemist to bring some scientific hobby into my day-to-day life. If anyone has any pointers or websites I can use to get started then I'd be greatful.

Peace

Johnny A.

[inquisitive_socialist]

umm, im pretty sure that doesnt work, but if you watch some Full Metal Alchemist on adult swim, you might learn something. or jsut waste alot of time watching well drawn cartoons. your call.

[An archist]

So, what's your plan with alchemy, make gold or something?
Sorry, that's all I know about it

[MrDoom]

Pick up any chemistry book and you'll find all you need to know on alchemy.

[Forward Union]

Alchemy is easy.

Firstly, and most importantly to the process, you need a big blue cape with stars on it, and matching hat.

Secondly you need a wand, preferably with a star or Crystal on the end. Although it's not *as* important as the cape and hat, the science wont work without it.

Once you have these things the scientific process is quite simple. You just need your base metal (I recommend lead). As soon as you have this, lay it on the table, well away from any other metals or living things, and tap it once with the end of your wand. Immediately following this action say, abracadabra three times. Over a period of 15mins(est) you can literally sit back and watch it turn into gold. That should sort out the metal conversion. As for the elixir of life, still wearing the merlin outfit, just get a glass water, a sprinkle of salt and a few drops of Gordons gin and Absinthe, make sure you mix well.

If it doesn't work it's because you don't believe.

Make sure you post us the pictures of you trying this experiment.

[ichneumon]

is this the kind of alchemy that starts with safrole and ends with honey?!?

the fascists took all those sites down, i think

[Jazzratt]

Originally posted by Johnny [email protected] 07, 2006 03:44 pm
I've decided to become an Alchemist to bring some scientific hobby into my day-to-day life.
Alchemy isn't a science it's a medieval precusor to science, but not actually science.

[Sadena Meti]

http://www.levity.com/alchemy/info.html

[ComradeRed]

You know, you might want to research nanotechnology instead. It covers the three goals of alchemy:

1) Create life from scratch (I don't give a damn what anyone says, nanotechnology is life.)

2) Changes elements into other elements.

3) Prolongs life (nanomedicine anyone?)

Plus you won't piss away your time with superstition and actually help people! :o

[Chocobo]

Everyone whos insulting the science of alchemy is a fool and reactionary. There is a lot more to alchemy then turning base metals into gold, the philosophers stone, and the elixer of life. Alchemy created some of the earliest known poisons, "potions", which were various herbal liquids, and thousands of other scientific discoveries. The website rev-stoic posted has a lot of great texts as well.
Base-metal turned into gold (http://www.crystalinks.com/alchemy3.html)
MAN-MADE GOLD

Today, scientists use much more powerful accelerators and can accelerate nuclear particles with 1 million times the energy of the device used by Cockcroft and Walton.

In the late 1960s, Judith Temperley, a physicist at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, studied properties of various metals by bombarding them with high-energy neutrons.

In one experiment, the target metal was mercury, an element with 80 protons. Under these conditions, a neutron enters the nucleus, which ultimately causes destruction of a proton by a process called "electron capture." The result is an atom with only 79 protons, making it an atom of gold!

So the alchemists were correct: A base metal can be turned into gold, but only with extreme patience. Accumulate a penny's worth of gold from mercury in this fashion, says Barry L. Berman, a physicist at George Washington University, will take about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.




Yep, so everyone who mocked the idea, well, your wrong because it worked. Also, I have no source outside of wikipedia, but in the wikipedia article for alchemy it states;

Matter transmutation, the old goal of alchemy, enjoyed a moment in the sun in the 20th century when physicists were able to convert lead atoms into gold atoms via a nuclear reaction. However, the new gold atoms, being unstable isotopes, lasted for under five seconds before they broke apart.
So there ya have it. Base metals into gold are possible.

Come on people, I thought you would've known to put logic before reaction!

[Janus]

I've decided to become an Alchemist to bring some scientific hobby
Alchemy isn't science.

And OI isn't for discussion on this type of stuff though I must say that it really seems to be getting weirder and weirder these days. Please seek help elsewhere.

[Forward Union]

Originally posted by rev-[email protected] 07, 2006 08:20 pm
http://www.levity.com/alchemy/info.html
http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/6179/merlincf4.png