Dante1214 wrote...
Uzumaki101 wrote...
Dante1214 wrote...
Uzumaki101 wrote...
Nicholas Flamel
I dunno if he's Dead OR Alive till today, but i'll just ask him if he still has the recipe for the Elixir of Life and the Book of Abraham... and then ask him if I could borrow them.
And yes, he exists (existed) IRL.
Existed.
No such things as elixir of immortality.
It would have to be a pretty awesome person for me to spend time with them. Otherwise I would prefer my own company. Or a hot Asian chick.
WE can never know if there
is an Elixir of Immortality or not, since he has the Book of Abraham with him.
Also, his tomb was empty when graverobbers came to take his gold (he was said to discover the secret of turning stone to gold). His body was never found, so it
can be possible that he still exists today.
That's pretty much irrelevant. Immortality is more or less impossible. If it is possible, we do not currently have the technology to understand how or make it happen, so it's beyond unlikely that he did at his time, even assuming he knew a great deal more, scientifically, than the other people of the time (which is the most likely explanation for what people call Alchemy). More or less same story about turning stone or lead to gold. It's theoretically possible (for those of you that wouldn't have thought of such silliness, the difference between gold and lead is a few electrons, and lead is clearly more common than gold. So if you could take 3 electrons from lead, it would be gold), but there is no way to actually do it, really, short of a large nuclear reaction, I guess. So it would have been significantly more impossible for him to do it.
And what with immortality being impossible, it is almost absolutely assured that he is not still around today.
Well, we still couldn't really tell the truth. He got it all from one source.
He turned lead to gold and gained immortality through
ONE source. The Book of Abraham.
Now I don't really know if it exists or not, but it's not impossible for things to contain such knowledge. Anyways, records say that Nicholas purchased a book that had strange writings. He traveled to Spain to get help decoding the book. Then he reported back that it was a copy of the Book of Abraham.
After decoding parts of the book, Nicholas and his Wife discovered how to turn stone into silver, then gold. Finally, enough to create the Elixir of Life.
After his recorded death, a graverobber visited his tomb, only to find his body missing.
Now after all of what I just said, it sounds like a fairy tale, right?
Well,it sounds like it, but it's still not impossible for the Book to not exist. It's also not impossible for it to contain such knowledge. Nothing is sure since History is still a mystery, even if people say that the stories are 'set in stone'
Point is, I dunno how he turned stone into gold without blowing half of the country, but one thing is sure. Everything he has reported could be true.... IF we could find proof that the book of Abraham exists.
"Some things cannot be explained by Science and Reasoning alone"
Nate River wrote...
Nothing is impossible
Good Job Nate. Your quotes can be useful sometimes too =)