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Gold, vanadium, europium reveal the existence of a mysterious particle

Átomo de Oro
“Atomo de oro”/Galarza Creador

“To observe the Majorana fermions,” reports Mining.com, “a team of physicists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Institute of Technology at Delhi, the University of California at Riverside, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, scientists designed and built a material system that consists of nanowires of gold grown atop a superconducting material, vanadium, and dotted with small, ferromagnetic ‘islands’ of europium sulfide, which is a ferromagnetic material that is able to provide the needed internal magnetic fields to create the Majorana fermions. When the researchers applied a tiny voltage and scanned the surface near the islands, they saw signature signal spikes near-zero energy on the very top surface of gold that, according to theory, should only be generated by pairs of Majorana fermions.”

This must have been what Ben Bernanke was talking about years ago when he said he didn’t understand gold. [Smile] Gold’s allure, to be sure, is a mystery to some, but for those who understand the ever-present dangers imposed by the money printing press, the only mystery is why so few own it.
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Image attribution: Galarza Creador, Atomo de oro, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

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