The founding principles of alchemy

The founding principles of alchemy

 

Alchemy is a well sought after ability; as man has spent decades trying to master it in order to create gold. Alchemy can be used to create much more then gold though. The raw materials we use to build our society; iron, platinum, copper, carbon, mercury, and many other elements; all can be replaced using alchemy.

However one cannot just create something where there is nothing. And the process through which alchemy is performed is highly dangerous, as it involves breaking and resetting atomic bonds. If one does not know the intricate details of elements and elemental properties one could blow a city off the face of the planet. Alchemy takes time and control AND an extensive knowledge of the periodic table of elements.

To perform actual alchemy one would only need to surge a massive electrical charge through an object or piece of matter. The charge must be strong enough to cause the atoms that make up the original material to vibrate and shake. The atomic bonds holding together the material must have enough strain placed on them to where they fracture. One must then run a second charge of electricity through the now weakened bonds; a charge equal to that of another material.

The charge must be EXACT, as in the precise number of protons, electrons, neutrons, and the numeric level that the subject is made of in the periodic table of elements. The process of alchemy could only convert in reverse, otherwise you would need more matter to convert forwards. Alchemy could be used to regenerate lost raw materials that we use day by day. Gold, diamonds, silver, bronze, copper, uranium; all elements could be made in high tech laboratories.

The fact is that if alchemy was perfected powerful people would want the power all to themselves. The business and government communities could hoard the raw materials and sell them at outlandish prices. Countries could build entire arsenals of various weapons of mass destruction and military grade vehicles and weapons in only a matter of hours. A mad scientists dream, right?

The factories that could be used to produce the materials would be a threat to the lives around them. One slip up and you have a gigaton atomic bomb. If alchemy was perfected the world could either turn to a utopia where even the poorest man with no home could afford a car and expensive jewelry. Or it could turn the world into a dystopia where every man alive is trying to be the ruler of the world.

If we all worked together, every nation and every human, we could perfect a lab that could perform alchemy. If we could even create just one single alchemy lab we could use the technology to create a lab in each nation, and eventually each city.  The cost of goods would skyrocket downwards and national debt would nearly cease to exist.

The correct path would be for each nation to produce alchemic goods for other nations besides their own. This way we can all trade goods, but at a fraction of a cost thanks to the lack of complex manufacturing costs that we currently face today. If every nation produces goods for other nations this will create an incentive to ship out and create normally expensive and rare materials to other nations.

 If you send gold they send silver, iron and carbon for nickel and zinc, etc. this system would be effective as it would inspire rivalries where one country wants to ship better goods than another. Supply and demand would be easier as food products would be one of the only things made outside an alchemy lab. Medical procedures would be less expensive as the tools and transportation would be easier to access.

Imagine if you would; a world where oil is so cheap that its practically free. A world where plastic, metal, and scrap, could be recycled in mere seconds to create the things we needed. A world where the only trash you throw away is expired food, that later gets turned into mulch. A world where manufacturing goods doesn’t harm the environment. A world where everyone could afford a car, a home, and expensive gold and diamonds. Imagine this utopia and imagine that we all share it. Imagine a world that never dies because we never used up its natural resources. THIS is what alchemy can do for our world.

Alchemy would only require the following things to be performed:

1.       A contained laboratory with a powerful electrical generator.

2.       Matter to be used

3.       Knowledge of the periodic table of elements and the atomic level, number of protons, neutrons, and electrons in the subject matter.

4.       A computer powerful enough to control and command the alchemy process.

5.       A containment field in which to practice the alchemy

6.       A facility that is sealed to prevent radiation from leaking out and sturdy enough to resist weather, weapons, and other disasters

7.       Money to finance the entire project

8.       Information on broken down materials meant to be replicated, such as oil, carbon, gold, iron, copper, steel, etc.

9.       A way of containing and/or destroying a project if and/or when the alchemy process goes awry.

10.   Two containers, one to hold the base material and one for spare material.

11.   Sensors  to read, calibrate, and keep track of the alchemy process.

12.   A gyroscopic generator to keep steady power flowing to the lab and facilities.

13.   A way to control the flow of electricity from the generators.