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#Alchemy. Only speak the word and one will make a "real" scientist distinctly uncomfortable, perhaps even somewhat belligerent. For alchemy — in its quest for the Great Elixir, the Philosophers' Stone, capable of transmuting base metals into "gold" — with its bewildering array of coded symbols, astrological lore, geometric diagrams and charts, is really a quest for exotic matter or exotic states of matter.
In this, it is curiously much like modern physics with its own bewildering array of obscure hierophants scratching the coded symbols of higher mathematics on blackboards, working in their own laboratories of arcane equipment, poring over their own charts of computer-generated models and geometries of atoms, paying enormous sums for obscure volumes of wisdom and recipes of equations, all in aid of its own quest to confect exotic matter, a dark materia prima, able to manipulate the fabric of space-time itself.
And like alchemy, it seeks the patronage of the wealthy and caters to the powerful, all the while speaking its own coded language, trying to keep its secrets to itself and away from the great masses of the people. Little, if anything at all, has really changed. And in this resemblance, of course, there lies a tale, for the truth of the matter is, perhaps, that the resemblance is more than coincidental, for it concerns more than the similarities of their accidentals, but lies chiefly in the substance and methods of the quest itself ...
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