That scene in Iron Man 2 when Tony Stark ‘creates a new element’. Is something like that possible, and how?

Question

That scene in Iron Man 2 when Tony Stark ‘creates a new element’. Is something like that possible, and how?

In: Technology

Answer 1

The concept employed is concurrent with how it would be done. New elements are generally created by bombarding a target consisting of one element with a charged particle beam consisting of another.

But his setup is unlikely to accomplish that.