John_Browning wrote:
ryan93 wrote:
Was that a demonstration of heat flow in a geometric shape, or was it some new age bullarkey with an ill defined concept of energy? I'm confused

I'm not quite sure. I assumed it's heat because it would be quite bold indeed to bizarre new-age theories in this forum.
Turns out it is new age crazyness. I googled torsion field, and I found Torsion Tensors ( a part of G.Relativity), and of course the obligatorily similarily names pseudoscience torsion field.
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"A torsion field (also called axion field, spin field, spinor field, and microlepton field) is a pseudoscientific[1] theory of energy in which the quantum spin of particles can be used to cause emanations lacking mass and energy to carry information through a vacuum at one billion times the speed of light. Presently championed outside of established scientific research due to its lack of scientific recognition, the theory has been used to proclaim FTL travel, ESP, homeopathy, levitation, and other paranormal phenomena possible and has been used provide a rationale for the asserted function of miracle cure and similar products."
So pretty much its another "abuse science, and imply we are sciencey" idea. His video seemed to be a model of Brownian Motion, but he had "chi" as one of his tags, so again its just abuse of established Science
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