Show SCIENCE HOPES TO REMOLD ENERGY Then Gold Can B Be Made r Out of Lead or th the L Leg cg g of a Chair Chair- By Russ Simonton All Au science today Is is built upon the law of ol conservation That is to say there is Just so much much matter and so much energy in the universe Neither can be created nor nox destroyed Matter is divided Into a few more than eighty e elements These elements are made up of ot atoms atoms' Atoms are inconceivably inconceivably incon incon- sm small ll ll particles of matte matter Element Elements Ele Ele- ments menta are simple substances nc Th That t means that there is nothing in fron on but iron atoms atom atoms atoms' nothing In gold but gold i. i atoms i and and nothing in lead but but the atoms of I lead Thus We can melt and break and grind iron but it will always be iron RADIUM FIRST That law of of conservation held until radium came Radium science decided was was' an an lele- lele ele dc ment But nature wasn't behaving She broke h all the rule rules rulea Before the very eyes of th the rule makers radium snapped and hissed in a miniature volcano of light Boiled all down and all the science eliminated heres here's the thing in a nutshell nutshell nut- nut shell Radium appears to destroy itself It seems to Jive give off orf ener energy Science cant can't understand why there should be energy there or what becomes of the radium unless unless unless- ENERGY ONLY CONSTANT Matter isn't a a constant after all If that Is true energy Is probably the only constant thing in the universe Mat t ter r then is only a form of energy energy energy-a a phenomenon of force In oU other r words energy rg light heat electricity motion may a b be transformed into matter Ma Maybe be thinks science now all the ele elements ele- ele ments all the metals and carbon and oxygen and anda a score of others are going to pieces pieces' just dust as radi radium m is is only more slowly and not fast enough to be seen But now the hard headed scientists are ch changing nging their opinions If It they can find finda a L way to control this making of ot matter from energy they can take lead break it up p into 2 the energy that makes it and nd remold it nearer to our hearts heart's desire For urt example exampleS wood can be turned into a chair leg legor or a penholder penholder- Energy may Jt it is thought b be turned into gold or lead NOBODY WILL WANT WANT GOLD Theres There's s a a. lot more to it than this and many more reasons for lor believing that the day tay of the transmutation of or metals Is near af t hand It isn't Just a wild eyed hair hall brained bit of theory The finest scientific minds In the tho world are coming to believe in th new Dew era when gold will be a byproduct of ef what they call the of or the atom Theres There's more tha thai thai-i a ch chance nce that somebOdy somebody some some- body in the next dozen years will stumble upon the way to turn matter back to energy and remold the energy to to the fO form we wish s gold o dw And then h gold will be besO so plentiful nobody no no- body will wm want It |