This is why I love gold so much. Two of the most extreme stars in existence slam into each other and create and earth-sized pile of gold (and other elements). Very extreme. Very cool.
Will we at Some point start slamming two stars into eachother to make gold pressed platinum bars? Or will the energy expenditure required for that be sufficient to create gold and platinum straight?
That's sort of the question that all nuclear fusion projects are trying to answer: can you replicate the processes that happen in a star without having a star?
