Intellectual heavyweights like Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle frantically searched for recipes regarding the Philosopher’s Stone, a legendary substance with the power to transmute metals. As the lead nuclei travels at near the speed of light, its magnetic field lines are “squashed into a thin pancake,” according to CERN. These gold nuclei are also incredibly short-lived, only lasting for around a microsecond before smashing into something or breaking apart into other elements. Tracking even these trace amounts of 21st century alchemy can be a big boon for future experiments and colliders. This past month, CERN completed a feasibility study regarding LHC’s successor, currently named the Future Circular Collider (FCC).