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Authenticity in the Age of the Fake

Authenticity in the Age of the Fake

As science blurs the real and unreal, we are learning to distinguish them in new ways

By Philip Ball

The announcement of synthetic diamonds in 1955 was met with the same kind of alarm and skepticism that greeted claims to have made alchemical gold in the Middle Ages. Could these “fake” gems, created by a team at the General Electric research laboratories in Schenectady, New York really match the genuine article? One anonymous critic from California captured a widespread suspicion in…