CLAIM TO MAKE GOLD

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2303, 4 September 1929, Page 7

CLAIM TO MAKE GOLD

LATEST SENSATION TWO RESEARCH WORKERS TRANSMUTATION SECRETS MARVELLOUS ROWERS Cold. Tor Clio inaking - that is tLe startling claim macro »y t"'u Christchurch? research workers. It means transmutation —a mystic word which has been on the lips of scientists for centuries, and in a Christchurch laboratory,a after 15 years of exacting and dangerous work, the investigators claim to have succeeded by-an electro-magnetic process in transmuting certain elements into gold. AVhat such a discovorjnrieans to "humanity beggars the- imagination. Tiie principals are Mr 6. P. Aston, an electro chemist, and Air H. W. Atack, a Christchurch solicitor. The results of the work of these two men have come under the notice of the New Zealand Government, and T<>ssihlv the Imperial! Government. lii their well-equipped laboratory both men have been juggling with the mysteries of the structure of the <and the electron. Tleir lahoratory contains specially built plant, and the men have been submitted to )’o small amount of danger. As-a matter of fact there have been explosions and minor accidents Scientists have agreed)' that trail* mutation would never he until tome greater energy than electricity was discovered —something 'that would transcend atomic energy and offer a. control over energy. The answer, it is claimed, came iu the discovery by Air Aston of eliromadyne. an electro-magnetic force 10 times more powerful than electricity, which is associated with the force ot gravitation. "Wrapped up with this new energy is the process of transmutation, but, not transmutation apopularly undetstood. The experiments have not been carried out alone. A sum of ;£LO,000 lias been spent in research work in Queensland, • Sydney, A\ ellingfou and other places.

iVlicte, the German scientist. claim. 0 .) {o have transmuted mercury into Sold at a cost of £2OO an ounce. He died not long after that. but research workers at Harvard! at great cost attempted to' repeat the achievement of Jlieto, but' obtained a ' negative result. As evidence of the marvellous powers of chromadyno if is only necessary to point out that by its use any colour or shade ol electric light can be given through all deptUs of col outs of the spectrum, including black. A reporter was shown . a spmplo of the gold which if, is claimed was the result of transmutation.