What are torsion fields and do they really exist?

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Energy that travels faster than light, or another pseudoscientific delirium.

What are torsion fields

For the first time the term "torsion fields" was used by the French mathematician Elie Cartan in 1922. With his help, he described a hypothetical force field that appears due to the twisting of space.

Hence the name: the French torsion, formed from the Latin tor quero, means "torsion". Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Alexei Byalko offers the following example of this energy:

Do torsion fields exist in nature? Yes, absolutely. For example, by tightening a nut, you create a torsional stress field in the screw.

Byalko A. V. Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Associate Scientist of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Nature"

The scientist also writes that many natural phenomena, including those that transmit energy over long distances, such as light or electromagnetic waves, can also "twist", that is, be torsional.

Despite the fact that, according to the Einstein-Cartan theory, torsion fields, if they exist, remain very weak, the term began to be used in pseudoscientific and esoteric concepts along with axion, spin, spinor and microlepton fields.

The essence of all such theories is reduced to the fact GI Shipov The theory of physical vacuum in a popular presentation, that there is a certain energy of emptiness (vacuum) between the constituent atoms - elementary particles. And it is supposedly capable of propagating much faster than the speed of light.

How torsion fields became part of pseudoscientific research

Soviet torsion project

Torsion "science" flourished in the late USSR, where the study of these hypothetical fields was carried out at the state level.

It all started with some "magic" D-rays, the discovery of which was announced in the early 1980s by the Moscow aviation engineer Alexander Deev. A few years later, he was joined by one of the main Soviet-Russian pseudoscientists Anatoly Akimov. In 1986, laboratory experiments with D-rays began, which were first renamed spinor fields and then torsion fields.

The authorities allocated 500 million rubles for the project, since the authors declared the technology to be advanced for the defense industry. Among its advantages were named:

• reliable detection of the enemy;
• its non-contact defeat from a long distance;
• creation of a hidden anti-jamming connection with objects in space, underground and water;
• gravity control;
• psychophysical and medico-biological impact.

The plans for the use of torsion fields were the most ambitious: from the destruction of warheads in space to increasing milk yield in cows.

Only in 1991, after full criticism of the speech of Academician Yevgeny Aleksandrov, the Center for Non-Traditional Technologies under the State Committee on Science and Technology of the USSR was closed. Its leader, Anatoly Akimov, was fired. There was a real scandal in the USSR Academy of Sciences.

In particular, it became known that the experiments were carried out methodically incorrectly. References to the names of some reputable scientists, for example, Academician Nikolai Bogolyubov and Lev Okun, were taken from the ceiling, and these researchers themselves denied their connection with torsionists. "Experimental tests in academic institutions" also turned out to be a bluff.

After that Akimov created an organization with a big name - "International Institute of Theoretical and Applied Physics", later renamed "YUVITOR". There he continued to pursue his "research".

He even managed in some unknown way to get funds from the Ministry of Science of Russia. Akimov's "Institute" became part of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

This public organization, which has become a haven for all sorts of pseudoscientific figures, should not be confused with the Russian Academy of Sciences.

After the overlapping of budgetary funds, the torsionists created a new private organization with a loud name - ISTC VENT, "Interindustry Scientific and Technical Center for Venture and Non-Traditional Technologies".

This organization created several "breakthrough" devices, the most famous of which were "torsion generators", tried to secure government funding and gain scientific recognition. But all these attempts were in vain.

The theory of physical vacuum by Gennady Shipov

After the inglorious dispersal of the Center for Unconventional Technologies, Anatoly Akimov continued to popularize torsion fields. Another "academician" of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Gennady Shipov became one of his main supporters.

The latter acted in this pair as a theoretician, and Akimov as a practitioner. In doing so, they most often referred to each other's results. The main work of their theory is considered to be the book by G. I. Shipov, The Theory of Physical Vacuum. M. 1997 Gennady Shipov "Theory of physical vacuum".

The scientific community took it with hostility. But the torsionists managed to publish the book at the Nauka publishing house, and it was even translated into English. This gave the job the status of a relatively serious job, although in reality it was not.

In his book Shipov writes a lot Shipov GI Theory of physical vacuum. M. 1997 about Einstein, which does not prevent him from talking about completely esoteric things. For example, he connects the physical concept of vacuum with the ideas of the ancient peoples of the East that everything emerged from the great emptiness.

Among other things, Shipov divides reality into seven levels and tries to substantiate the existence of a certain Supreme Being. The author also tells about Anatoly Antipov from Penza, who supposedly can attract metal objects with his body.

In addition, Shipov claims that in his work he combines Western and Eastern ways of thinking, as well as a variety of studies.

Torsion fields in Shipov's theory play the role of non-material carriers of information. They determine the behavior of elementary particles and have no energy. This supposedly allows them to be at once in all points of space-time.

All this allowed in the future to connect the theory of torsion fields with a variety of esoterics: wave genetics, biolocation, “charged” water, biofields, homeopathy, extrasensory perception, levitation, telepathy, telekinesis, and so on.

The spread of the pseudoscientific views of torsionists was also facilitated by the media, which, in pursuit of sensations, published articles about X-ray people and other "miracles". When it turned out that all this was a hoax, journalists were in no hurry to publish refutations.

"Practical application" of torsion fields

The followers of this concept not only come up with strange theories, but also create various strange devices, supposedly based on torsion principles. At the same time, torsionists promise incredible results.

For example, it is said that armor treated with torsion beam generators will supposedly become stronger, and copper wires will be so super-conductive that they will close half of the power plants.

The project of the latter, by the way, during an experimental test organized by the Ministry of Science of the Russian Federation, failed miserably.

However, the torsionists have repeatedly unsuccessfully tried to "realize the potential" of their generators: to introduce them at Norilsk Nickel, to clean the Yauza River, to transfer the heating networks of Bulgaria to "advanced technologies", to create a drug against cancer, and so on.

They announced success when they allegedly managed to filter the Gelendzhik Bay from pollution with the help of torsion generators. In fact, the positive result was the result of fraudulent water samples.

Back in 1996, Anatoly Akimov predicted that in the near future a flying saucer would be developed that would rise into the air without jet thrust, as well as other vehicles that did not need an internal combustion engine. But neither these nor other projects of torsionists to obtain energy "practically from nothing" have appeared.

A big scandal unfolded around the Yubileiny satellite project, on which, on the initiative of General Valery Menshikov, a “unsupported” (torsion) propulsion device was installed. He supposedly had to take the device out of the solar system. Naturally, nothing of the kind happened.

And this happened not under the Soviet Union or in the 90s, but in 2008!

They are trying to create torsion devices for medical purposes as well. So, on the initiative of Alexander Trofimov, Doctor of Medical Sciences, in 1994, the International Institute of Space Anthropoecology was founded and is still operating.

Its employees stated that they were studying “the effect of torsion fields on a living being”, “comparing astrological and astrophysical data” of patients, they could change the course of time, and so on.

All these devices are needed, of course, for sale.

Torsionists even manage to patent their inventions. For example, there is a patent for a device that, according to the creators' intention, should work with the human biofield and torsion currents.

It supposedly protects against harmful radiation (for example, from microwaves or cell phones), carcinogens and other similar hazards. In fact, these are just a few plates made of different materials.

Why torsion fields are a myth

Attempts to detect torsion fields that pseudoscientists are talking about in laboratory conditions have not been crowned with success. Therefore physicists consider; torsion fields with purely hypothetical energy.

Torsionists, however, claim that evidence will soon be found. They sweep aside critical statements regarding their theory with the help of demagoguery: they categorically refer to Einstein, accuse RAS academics of having connections with "overseas sponsors."

The lack of evidence of the existence of torsion fields does not prevent them from conducting experiments on "irradiating" copper with their fantastic rays. At the same time, it turns out that these pseudoscientists do not know, for example, the concept of resistivity of metals and do not know how to correctly measure the voltage in the materials under study.

The "luminaries" of the theory of torsion fields Anatoly Akimov and Gennady Shipov never published their articles in serious peer-reviewed physics journals. And the same Akimov did not have any scientific degree at all, although for some time he presented himself as a "doctor of sciences".

The opponent of their theory was the theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate Vitaly Ginzburg. The torsionists are defended by another Nobel Prize winner, Roger Penrose, the creator of the controversial concept of quantum psychology.

Even the "physicists" from the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences are skeptical about the work of torsionists. And the physics section of this organization refused to take Akimov's Institute under its auspices.

The torsionists' miscalculations are visible even in their theoretical calculations: for example, their "magic" fields do not have energy, but they call their quanta ("carriers") "low-energy relic neutrinos".

Despite the fact that the authors of the pseudoscientific concept of torsion fields declare that their radiation is not absorbed by natural environments, these same "scientists" say that this type of energy can be easily detected.

Indicative in this regard is the story with water vortex (protruding for "torsion") generators for heating systems. Their torsionists were sold as 150, 200, 500 and even 1,000% more efficient than conventional devices. In reality, the generators, supposedly drawing energy from a vacuum, were weaker than steam heating and, oddly enough, they themselves needed electricity. The real efficiency of torsion generators did not exceed 83–86%.

Other inventions are significantly less useful (about zero). For example, stickers called "plane torsion generators" that supposedly protect against the harmful effects of microwaves, cell phones and similar devices. And medical devices can be harmful to health at all if they are used instead of standard treatment.

All this allows us to say with confidence that the magical fields of torsionists simply do not exist.