Why do we mine gold now?
Because it doesn't rust or decay, so it is excellent for maintaining value.
This is an interesting video![]()
Gold maintains value because we like it as a pretty material, there's almost no intrinsic value to it apart from the value we place on it.
@semi-pro Isn't it used because it's the best conductor & it doesn't rust ?
Did you watch the video? It contradicts what you have just typed![]()
I've often wondered if Adam & Eve were sent from another planet to colonise Earth (Eden?), I mean in thousands of years it's possible that we will discover an Earth like planet and have the means to get there (albeit a long one way jouney which requires sending men & women) and then the parent planet catches up with them a few thousand years later when they have the means to get there more easily and the new planet has sorted themselves out.
Did Eve Come from the Gold Mines? Then there's the so-called Eve theory that people have been trying to put down for a long time. Scientists took a certain component in the DNA molecule and overlapped it to show which one came first, and they figured out that the first person of humanity lived somewhere between 150- and 250,000 years ago. And that first person, whom they called Eve, happened to come from the exact valley the Sumerians claim that we were mining gold [Fig. 3- 10]! Since then one scientist has discarded this theory because there are many other ways to look at the DNA origins. But I still find it remarkable that this theory just happened to point at the same valley where the Sumerian records say it all started.
In electronics it's a very good conductor and is soft/malleable but doesn't rust so to say that's why it is used now is perfectly right. This wouldn't have applied for most of human history though given consumer electronics have only taken off in the past few decades at most. That's why I'm saying that for the greatest proportion of time we've valued it because it is pretty rather than because it has any real utility beyond that.
Lysander, should you not be chilling with your new wife, rather than posting made up nonsense on a forum?