I was thinking about gold and why it's valuable. I get it, "dollar will collapse, gold is always valuable," but WHY?
And then I was thinking about the ancient civilizations, the ones pre-flood that were most likely highly advanced.. The ones that most likely were able to tap into frequencies, magnetic fields, and had advanced techniques that was lost to man. Techniques that men like Tesla eventually rediscovered, but cabal agents came and told them away (hence Epstein trolling around MIT, but that's a different topic).
I'm wondering if gold was used as a method to tapping into the power sources in the ancient world. Like, it more efficiently stabilized frequencies and made power a constant in the ancient ancient world. Who knows, I'm riffing here.
We know gold has unique properties when compared to the elements, and we know it's already used in electronics, electrical wiring, dentistry, medicine, and radiation shielding. Perhaps the ancient world harvested it as it expanded their power, and then the Flood hit, people lost the technology, but remembered gols: "it's valuable because our forefathers knew it was valuable, and maybe we'll tap into that so let's keep gathering more gold."
Maybe word-of-mouth and generational story telling eventually forgot how to leverage gold for energy, and it became a relic of the past, still valuable, but the inherent reason was lost.
Gold is also a hard-limited resource. From what we "know", or believe we know -- because cosmic science, like most science, is never settled -- there is only so much gold on the planet we'll ever have.
Even in ancient times, due to the rarity of gold, this conclusion was easily reached. Also, as you say, its ability to be shaped into jewelry and polished to a good sheen made it valuable even then.
That it is electrically conductive and corrosion resistant (does not oxidize as easily as silver or copper) is another use case that will drive up the value, particularly towards scientific endeavors where gold is necessary for those reasons.
Gold will always have value, silver will always have value, and in a modern world, copper will always have value too.
Certain gemstone material will also always be valuable for certain use cases as well.
Rubies are the thing if you're working with high powered lasers
And diamond tip tools make life easier in masonry trades
Fortunately diamond is not actually that rare, it's just artificially inflated because of jewelry. Go figure.
Not really. They never were. High power came from gasdynamic, chemical, and electric/gaseous lasers. Current high-powered lasers use doped glass filaments. And now we know how to make synthetic rubies.
Silver was valuable in the old days because it doesn't oxidize easily either. It does tarnish, but that is a relatively new problem. Silver tarnishes because of sulfur. Sulfur was not in high enough concentrations until the industrial revolution. Prior to this, gold and silver were correlated with the sun and the moon and were both highly valued because they did not break down over time. They seemed to have mystical powers because of their ability to resist chemical interactions with the natural world.
It is also self-defeating to try to fake. The only metals that have close to the same density are either more rare or more difficult to work.