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that's pretty cool. this is one of those things where it's not the actual point of the study, but it's the "in" that gets the public to read an article about a complicated and nuanced scientific experiment. the value in doing this is less "we made gold" and more "we can do a sophisticated enough analysis to observe this interesting high mass nuclear reaction with our detector/experiment."