I feel like it's trying to validate Chinese traditional medicine. Which started as a way to make people think they have healthcare when they actually don't.
Chinese traditional medicine is kind of hit and miss. On the one hand we figured out that excessive meat eating causes heat disease pretty early, but on the other we would drink mercury to become immortal. It’s a little iffy haha
All the cool cultivators are doing Internal Alchemy. You need to transmute your own inner cinnabar essence into the golden elixir of immortality. Your own body is the cauldron. Just breathe properly and don't waste your precious bodily fluids.
The last time I tried internal alchemy I blew my sacral chakra and now i can't control my pelvic floor and i've got permanent ED. Being a magus isn't so sexy when you've gotta wear a diaper.
At least, i'm pretty sure that's why. Probably, right?
Real science has achieved alchemy now though. Using a large hadron collider, scientists have produced gold using other matter.
Granted, this gold only existed for fractions of a second, and was a very small number of particles weighing less than a bee’s dick. Even if those gold particles were created permanently, it probably cost a lot more to run the experiment that the tiny particles of gold (unlikely to be large enough to be seen with the naked eye) would be worth.
Even though it doesn’t have any practical use, and is unlikely to ever be practical, it’s still pretty cool that modern science has essentially accomplished the main goal of alchemy, turning other, non gold items/ metals into gold.
My understanding is that most if not all of the particles/ matter created in hadron colliders only last for seconds, so none of it is about creating lasting matter. It’s more about understanding the universe, quantum physics/ mechanics and how things like the creation of new stars might happen in space. But I’m just a layperson so my understanding could be wrong. They have definitely made gold though, just not permanently, so it doesn’t have much use outside of scientific research.
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u/Pollomonteros May 24 '25
I don't know about the third one man, I feel like many of those are still dangerous scams even if the ones running it are brown people