[TheForge] Alchemy Question

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Can't find the magic incantation that gives me the answer in Google, so 
I thought I would ask here.  It is at least metal related.  Someone told 
me years ago, or I read,  that scientists had successfully achieved the 
goal of alchemists by transmuting lead into gold.   As I recall, they 
were using a linear accelerator or something along those lines, 
bombarding lead with electrons.  Not a finacially viable process, but 
interesting none the less.  Does anyone here know anything about this or 
was I just being gullible years ago ( probably read it in Omni).


Charles