Is Alchemy real?

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Is Alchemy real? Is there anyway to learn it?

Answer 1

Yes they call it chemistry these days…

Answer 2

Is Alchemy Real

Answer 3

Alchemy was arguably a fore runner to modern chemistry, but had no scientific basis. Supposedly it involved the search for the mythical philosopher's stone, which would allow the alchemist to turn base metals into gold.

The experimentation which occured would have been a valuable part of the scientific process -probably pretty dangerous too. The observations made would have led the old experimenters to form hypotheses about the nature of the materials they were working with, which would be tested and lead to an understanding of their nature. Chemical reactions are not influenced by whether it is a full moon or you cast spells. This can be proven by experimentation.

Similarly, we now know that chemical reactions cannot alter the atomic characteristics of the material. The Curies refined pitchblend to isolate and extract radium. They didn't create it from something else. Thus the original goal was shown to be unachievable and based on false hypotheses.

It has been kindly suggested that alchemy became a quest to change the personality of the experimenter, through hard work and learning, rather than to transmute base metals. Thus the improvement of the alchemist's soul was the real goal. Perhaps they changed society by giving us useful and practical products, medicines etc.

Someone once said about medical practices that there is no such thing as alternative medicine, just medicine which works and that which doesn't. Similarly, there is no such thing as "alternative" science.

If we don't understand how some natural process works, filling the gaps in our knowledge by ascribing some supernatural force to it is not an explanation. It is pure superstition and intellectual laziness.

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Answer 4

You can't say for sure. I know that people say that Chemistry, Physics and Biology are the only pure physical sciences, but think of it this way: All those years ago, those people believed that Alchemy was science or whatever you want to call it. Nowadays, we ridicule them for thinking that. But some time in the future, people might ridicule us for thinking that Chemistry is science or whatever. Our knowledge is limited. So you can't say whether or not something is 'real' . It is up to you to decide whether or not it is possible. I for one think that Alchemy was a possible thing.

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Answer 6

Yes alchemy is real...but it takes lot to make it work..

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Answer 7

Watch Fullmetal Alchemist to find your answer.

Answer 8

It is real but it takes a lot of devotion to learn it.Its not like our modern sciences,you dont just memorize a bunch of info and go mix stuff up,its a lot more complicated than that

Answer 9

Actually, it is possible. Through science, and it's incredibly inefficient, but you can do it. It involves changing the number of protons within the atom, and allows scientists to do something crazy: Change lead into gold.

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While few would deny that there were elements of modern science in alchemy, it is also true that this was a study permeated with a mysticism foreign to the post-Newtonian world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemy
http://www.alchemicaltaoism.com/
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/martinon/index.html
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgi-local/DHI/dhi.cgi?id=dv1-04

Answer 11

Alchemy is real, I can asure you that. It's as real as science or chemestry ever were. It should also never be catorigized with wichcraft, as the two have absolutly nothing in common. There are no "magic words" in alchemy, there are no "mystic potions" in alchemy. Alchemy is also not evil, as some might think. Those rumors, I'm sorry to say, were created by the roman cathlic church in the early 16th century.

England was running low on gold to make coins, so alchemists tried to help. Using a procedure that was lost in the burnings of librarys to follow, alchemists would take a small amount of gold, mix it with other metals and minerals, and create more gold than they started with. The church, worried that this way to make gold would hurt there economy, demed alchemy as demonic and burned hundreds of alchemists at the stake, along with importand alchemical texts in the burning of librarys stated previously.

Alchemy was not demonic, it was simply a way to speed up nature. If you're a bit sceptical, think of this: If a chunck of coal is left in the ground long enough, it becomes dimond. Alchemy was used to speed up this process, mostly through the use of tintuctures.

But alchemy's not the kind of stuff you see on Full Metal Alchemist. Alchemy isn't about clapping your hands, watching a magical light, then re-shaping things. In short, it's purifing things through fire, through the art of distilation.

You might have also heard some stuff about the Phlisopher's Stone on Full Metal, but again, they messed up the facts big time. The Phlosaphers Stone was, in midevil times, believed to be a combination of distilled mecury and sulphul, to a point which it could not be purified any further. It was said to be a substance so pure, it would pass on it's purity to anything it touched. Base metals would become gold (thought to be the purist substanc in existance then) and prolong the human life indefinatly.

I'm not saying not to watch Full Metal Alchemist, just don't belive everything you see on tv.