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I breathe in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. So no, alchemy is real. Just not with metals, unless you're talking about eating a bar of gold and having it turn into a substance called shit, though you'll be in the bathroom for a long, long time.
If it could be done with metals, we would've seen a lot more hyperinflation in history, and alchemists were typically people appointed by monarchs who planned to farm that wealth for themselves, which reflects their thirst for pizzazz more than anything actually fascinating.
I've heard its chemicaly/"physicsly" possible but involves messy particle smashing and other largely expensive/messy/theoretical processes that aren't worth the squeeze as of yet
Technologically anyways. Someone wanting to do alchemy can always give birth (though the resulting baby is always more precious than the amount of gold in their body).
... You know women aren't spontaneously creating gold atoms, right? That's trace gold that gets into our systems from food, water, meds.
That was kinda my point. Matter cannot be created or destroyed, only modified. Everything in the body was originally something else.
Again, you don't seem to be familiar with the difference between an element and a compound and how that relates to alchemy. Best wishes on your journey of learning, I think I'm done now. If you want to learn more, I suggest you find some YouTube videos on chemistry or books or whatever your preferred learning medium is.