DW: When you say mercury vortex, what are you referring to? What would this technology look like if we were going to see it?
CG: Basically in a glass cylinder with mercury in it And then form the top and the bottom they would spin it at extremely high velocities and and then apply very high voltage to it.
DW: And that causes the antigravity?
CG: Yes. And then they started doing counter rotating copper plates as well-- involved in it as well.
And interesting thing that happened, something that was dealt with later, is they discovered that heavy electricity-- I mean seriously heavy electricity-- applied to mercury causes the mercury to turn into gold.
DW: Really? Like alchemy.
CG: Like alchemy. And these cylinders, glass cylinders, kept the mercury-- kept turning to a coral-looking gold. And this was seen as a problem. Creating gold was seen as a problem.
DW: Why? Why would that matter? Wouldn't they want gold?
CG: No, they needed a golem metal, liquid metal, that would stay liquid at high temperatures, high RPMs, and that would conduct electricity for long periods of time without transmuting. And they eventually engineered a different liquid metal.
DW: But what would happen to the craft if it starts turning into gold?
CG: It becomes unstable and crashes.