Mystical, Magical Mercury – Part I

Mystical, Magical Mercury – Part I

We all know about mercury, right? It’s that funny, silvery and highly reflective substance that they no longer put in oral thermometers or use as an amalgam in dentistry, but did in my youth before it was banned (due to its high toxicity). Mercury, otherwise known as quicksilver and element number 80 (the atomic number) on the Periodic Table of the Elements, got its odd symbol, Hg, from a “Latin-ized” Greek word, hydrargyrum. It was discovered around 1500 BC and was used extensively in medicinal preparations. Its vapor pressure is relatively high, and it is highly volatile.

At room temperature, of course, it’s a liquid metal, technically, what is called a transitional metal. It is unique in this respect. At 4° Kelvin (near absolute zero), mercury becomes a solid and is then perfectly conducting—it has no electrical resistance. It then is a “superconductor.” Of course, it can be vaporized too .

Mercury can be alloyed with other metals and also can be a compound with other elements. There are seven stable isotopes plus four radioactive isotopes of mercury; if you go to Wikipedia there’s a long story of its many uses throughout history. For this article, though, we’re concerned about how mercury in some specific formulations, most likely, has been applied in advanced, aerospace propulsion.

The Experiment 

“The Bell,” otherwise known in German as Die Glocke, was the name of an alleged experiment conducted in 1945 by Nazi Germany near a small town (Ludwikowice or Ludwigsdorf, in German) in southern Poland. The experiment itself was conducted both in a test chamber in the Wenceslas Mine and, perhaps, also outdoors in a circular structure known as the “Fly Trap” or the “Henge.”

The NEWScience T. L. KELLER | purpose of the experiment depends on to whom you talk. Generally, it was: [1] an energy generation experiment [2] an anti-gravity experiment, [3] a space-time experiment; or even [4] all of the above. 

There is, of course, a long-standing legend of the development of flying discs in Germany beginning in the 1920s. If that were true, then the Bell experiment would have been the R&D test of another type of anti-gravity propulsion system presumably intended for an advanced flying disc program. The test was alleged to have been executed in February/March 1945 under the technical direction of Prof. Dr. Walther Gerlach (Professor of Physics, University of Munich, specializing in magnetism and gravitation) and noted Dr. Kurt Debus, an electrical engineer.1 The administrative director was infamous SS General Hans Kammler, whose headquarters were in Prague, Czechoslovakia, not far from the test site.

The Purposes of The Bell Experiment

Energy Generation

During WWII, Romania, an ally of Germany, was one of the largest oil producers in Europe and the Ploiesti oil fields were a major part of that production. The Ploiesti oil refineries provided about 30 percent of all Axis oil production. Beginning in 1942, numerous air raids on the Ploiesti and other fields reduced oil production drastically (it was not unusual to have Axis vehicles run short of fuel). Even though Germany could convert coal to synthetic petroleum fuels, demand for more fuel gradually exceeded supplies.

It was theorized that the Bell experiment might provide a means of tapping into the zero point energy field and provide the energy to replace electrical generating facilities that were consuming fossil fuels.

Anti-Gravity

It was thought that the principal purpose of the experiment was to control gravity. Some will say, “Control gravity, are you serious?” The Nazis tried everything else, why not the control of gravity? This would reduce or eliminate the use of fossil fuels in aircraft, allow any normally-weighted object to be lifted as if it were weightless or near-weightless and to travel at extraordinary velocities. The control or partial control of gravity might also have given Germany the capability of interplanetary travel.

Space-Time

Gravity and space-time are directly related. Gravity curves or folds space-time.4 Bearing in mind that Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity came into being in 1915 (Einstein was a Jewish German who migrated to the US before the war), many European scientists were well aware of the elements of it, including the possibility of being able to control space and time (i.e., space-time, which has since then been proven true experimentally and not just theoretically). If the German Nazis had been able to master the control of space-time, the possibilities of creating a decisive weapon and consequent victory were endless. The control of space-time might also have given Germany the capability of interstellar travel.

The Bell Device and the Test Site

The Bell is depicted in the illustration here, showing a model as it might have appeared in 1945. The following is a description by Joseph P. Farrell :

The Bell consisted of:

• Two counter-rotating cylinders on a common axis, which cylinders were apparently filled with or coated with pure mercury;
• The axis itself consisted of a heavy metal core, presumably hollow, since it was the receptacle for the mysterious thorium-beryllium-mercury compound known as Xerum-5256;
• The outer casing was made of a ceramic material; The mercury, and presumably the interior of the Bell, was tremendously cooled by (presumably liquid) nitrogen and oxygen;
• The Bell was approximately (according to this latest research of Witkowski7) 2.5 meters high (about eight 18 | DECEMBER 2018 to nine feet high) and about 1.5 meters (or about four to five feet), smaller than initially reported by Cook.

The test chamber was located deep inside the Wenceslas Mine (this part of southern Poland is peppered with a series of former coal mines, caverns and chambers that were dug by slave laborers as part of the Project Riese complex, Hitler’s future center of the Nazi German Reich. The Bell itself was powered by high voltage cables to support the electric motor that drove the contra-rotating cylinders within it. Once the Bell was powered up to maximum speed, it was claimed that a bluish light was seen emanating from the outer casing. Various experiments were conducted using plants, animals and humans while the Bell was in operation. It is said that the effects of the Bell extended some 650- 700 feet beyond the test chamber. The operators were said to have worn rubber suits, with their eyes protected by red visors. The floor of the chamber was covered with rubber mats and allegedly replaced after every test.

The ”Fly Trap” or “Henge”

Outside of the Wenceslas Mine, it was claimed that there was a control room, a circular concrete structure (see illustration) and a nearby power plant. The circular, steel-reinforced, concrete structure, known as the “Fly Trap” or “Henge,” was said to be a test bed where the Bell was placed on the ground in the center. It was alleged to be connected by steel chains to the circumference of the structure to limit its vertical rise into the air .

Some claim that the concrete structure was simply the base of a then-existent cooling tower. After doing a little research on the Internet, we get a contemporary German design for cooling towers with the same general design and structure. The only thing was that the diameter of this structure was larger than any of the standard designs of that time. Also, in my opinion, this structure was located in a very odd place. You don’t need a cooling tower to mine coal. Cooling towers are located very close to the source of heated water that has to be chilled. It was very far away from any facility where there would have been heated water that needed to be cooled.