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{{cite journal|author=Arcos, H. I.|coauthors=Pereira, J. G.|title=Torsion Gravity: A Reappraisal|journal=Int. J. Mod. Phys. D|volume=13|issue=10|pages=2193–2240|date=December 2004|doi=10.1142/S0218271804006462 |
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== TV France 3 - Presentation of torsion field concept on National Television == |
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test koroktov - energetic diagnostication under influence of torsion field device ! |
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<ref>http://www.geodd.com/fr/page-11-21-france-3--presentation-du-concept.html#presentation_concept_geodd</ref> |
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== Romania - Human energy field - torsion field influence == |
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Presentation of torsion field device - TORSER - influence on human body energy tested with GDV |
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camera (kirlian photography) at Academy of scientists, |
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National Defense University, UNESCO, General Inspectorate of Police |
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<ref>http://www.torser.info</ref> |
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Revision as of 00:53, 1 December 2008
| Claims | Spin-spin interaction can be transmitted through space at speeds of at least up to 109 the speed of light via a special kind of field, making FTL travel, ESP, homeopathy, levitation, and other paranormal phenomena possible. |
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| Related scientific disciplines | Physics |
| Year proposed | 1987 |
| Original proponents | A. Akimov, G. Shipov |
| Subsequent proponents |
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| (Overview of pseudoscientific concepts) | |
Torsion field, also called axion field, spin field, spinor field, and microlepton field is a pseudoscientific concept loosely based on Einstein-Cartan theory and some unorthodox solutions of Maxwell's equations.[1] The torsion field concept was conceived in the Soviet Union by a group of physicists in the 1980s. The group, led by Anatoly Akimov and Gennady Shipov,[2] began the research as the state-sponsored Center for Nontraditional Technologies, but was disbanded in 1991 when their research was exposed as fraud and embezzlement of state funding,[1] only to reemerge again as a private enterprise; The International Institute for Theoretical and Applied Physics and later as a private company UVITOR.[3]
Criticism and controversy
A field is simply an assignment of a quantity (vector, tensor, or spinor) to every point of space. The word torsion refers to any variable that describes rotation. Thus, torsion fields exist. For example, an electromagnetic wave with circular polarisation can be described as a "torsion field", although such description is not used in physics. Spinor fields, in particular, Fermionic fields, also exist and are a useful tool in particle physics and quantum field theory. However, advocates of the spin field or torsion field theories claim that spin-spin interaction (itself a well-studied quantum phenomenon) can be transmitted through space just like electromagnetic waves, but does not carry any mass or energy, only information, and does so at speeds up to 109 times the speed of light. At the same time they claim that it is carried by neutrinos (which have both mass and energy), and that it does not interact with matter but, at the same time, can be generated and registered easily.[4]
The basic postulates of these theories are full of contradictions and scientifically nonsensical statements[5], but their applications take this a step further. Torsion field theory was hailed as the explanation for homeopathy, telepathy, levitation, clairvoyance, and other paranormal activity and ESP, which also would allow the humankind to harness it, building everything from miracle cure devices (including devices that cure alcohol addiction[6]) to working stargates[7], UFO propulsion analogs and superweapons. Many such devices, in particular the miracle cure boxes, have been patented[8], manufactured and sold, and some appear to work due to placebo effect, and the torsion field scientists have been working hard to obtain large-scale government and military contracts.
A classic example of such application is an experiment conducted in 1994 by the Russian private research group "VENT" (VEnture for Non-traditional Technologies[5]) which claimed to lower the resistivity of copper as much as 80 times after exposing it to a torsion fields generator. The group applied to the government of Russia for funding to open a factory, and promised great savings in energy consumption. The samples of exposed and unexposed copper were independently measured in presence of the Vent representative and their resistivity was not only found to be identical between each other [(2.08+/-0.02)×10-7 Ωm and (2.05+/-0.02)×10-7 Ωm] but also worse than the industrial copper (1.7×10-8 Ωm).[5]
Other examples include the 2002 applications for oil drilling licenses in Russia and UK using "microlepton technologies"[9], or the 1987 application to the Ministry of Defence of the USSR requesting funding to develop "highly-reliable detection of an enemy strategic weapon (ICBM, nuclear submarine, aircraft, etc.); the long-range destruction of enemy strategic weapons without contact; covert jamming-resistant communications with objects in space, on Earth, underground, and underwater; mobile equipment on gravitational principles; and psychophysical and biomedical influence on troops and the population"[1] The state allocated 500 million rubles (about $700 million at today's exchange rate) for this research.[10]
On the other end of the spectrum, there are purely mathematical theories, such as Einstein-Cartan theory or gauge theories of gravitation for the Poincaré and the affine groups, that seek to add the torsion of spacetime to the curvature-based description of gravity, predicting a multitude of new physical effects. However the predicted effects are either infinitesimal or directly contradict the experimental evidence. In fact, spacetime curvature and torsion are simply alternative ways of describing the gravitational field that are mutually interchangeable in every way. Any attempt to account for them separately produced inconsistencies.[11]
TV France 3 - Presentation of torsion field concept on National Television
test koroktov - energetic diagnostication under influence of torsion field device ! [12]
Romania - Human energy field - torsion field influence
Presentation of torsion field device - TORSER - influence on human body energy tested with GDV camera (kirlian photography) at Academy of scientists, National Defense University, UNESCO, General Inspectorate of Police [13]
References
 | This article needs additional citations for verification. (February 2008) |
- ^ a b c Kruglyakov, Edward P. "Pseudoscience. How Does It Threaten Science and the Public? Report at a RAN Presidium meeting of 27 May 2003". Zdraviy Smysl. Saint Petersburg Branch of the Russian Humanist Society.
- ^ Gennady Shipov homepage
- ^ UVITOR website
- ^ Акимов А.Е. (1996). "Торсионные поля Земли и Вселенной". Земля И Вселенная. 6: 9–17.
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(English title: )Akimov A.E. (1996). "Torsion fields of Earth and Universe". Earth and Universe. 6: 9–17.{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ a b c
Бялко, А. В. "Торсионные мифы". Природа. 1998 (9): 93–102. Retrieved 2008-02-11.(in Russian)
(English title: )Byalko, A. V. "Torsion Myths". Priroda. 1998 (9): 93–102. - ^ Boyd, R. N. "Reduction of Physiological Effects of Alcohol Abuse By Substitution of a Harmless Alcohol Surrogate Created by Application of a Spin Field". Application to NIH Alcohol Abuse Center.
- ^ Sarfatti, J., Sirag, S.-P. "Star Gate Anholonomic Topology-Changing Post-Einstein Geometrodynamics" (2000)
- ^ System and method for generating a torsion field - US Patent 6548752
- ^ Strange events hit rural England on physicsweb.org
- ^ Kruglyakov E.P., "The Demons of Ignorance and Greed" Interview given by Academician E. P. Kruglyakov to the newspaper Literaturnaya Gazeta, February 1, 2006
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Arcos, H. I. (December 2004). "Torsion Gravity: A Reappraisal". Int. J. Mod. Phys. D. 13 (10): 2193–2240. doi:10.1142/S0218271804006462. Retrieved 2007-11-30.
{{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ http://www.geodd.com/fr/page-11-21-france-3--presentation-du-concept.html#presentation_concept_geodd
- ^ http://www.torser.info
External links
support:
- The Torsion Fields entry on amasci.com
- Studies of the Spin Field and the Torsion Field by Robert Neil Boyd
debunk:
- Kruglyakov, E.P.. Pseudoscience. How Does It Threaten Science And the Public? Report made by Academician E.P. Kruglyakov at the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences Meeting, May 27, 2003.
- Rubakov V.A. (2000). "Physical Vacuum: Theory, Experiment, Technology" by G.I.Shipov" (PDF). Physics-Uspekhi. 170 (3): 351–352. (Full text available in Russian)