What are torsion fields and do they really exist?

What are torsion fields

For the first time the term "torsion fields" was usedIvanenko D.D., Pronin P.I., Sardanashvili G.A. Gauge theory of gravity. M. 1985 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 came from: French torsion, formed from the Latin tor quero, which meansByalko A.V. Torsion myths. Nature "torsion". Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Alexei Byalko offers the following example of this energy:

The scientist also writes that many natural phenomena, including those that transfer energy to large distances, such as light or electromagnetic waves, can also "swirl", that is, be torsion bar.

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 boils down to Shipov G. AND. The theory of the 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 the USSRwhere the study of these hypothetical fields was carried out at the state level.

It all startedKruglyakov E. P. "Scientists" from the Highway-3. Commission for Combating Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. M. 2009 from 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 increasingAlexandrov E. B. On the influence of the "torsion field" on the plasticity of silumin. In Defense of Science No. 5 milk yield from cows.

Only in 1991, after full criticism of the performanceOn the vicious practice of funding pseudoscientific research from government sources. Alexandrov E.B. Prehistory of the RAS Commission for Combating Pseudoscience. In Defense of Science No. 22 Academician Evgeny Aleksandrova The Center for Unconventional Technologies under the State Committee on Science and Technology of the USSR wasKruglyakov E. P. "Scientists" from the Highway-3. Commission for Combating Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. M. 2009 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 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 overlap of budgetary funds, the torsionists createdByalko A. IN. Torsion myths. Nature a new private organization with a loud name - ISTC VENT, "Interdisciplinary 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 continuedKruglyakov E. P. "Scientists" from the Highway-3. Commission for Combating Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. M. 2009 popularize torsion fields. Another "academician" of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Gennady Shipov became one of his main supporters.

The last one performedAlexandrov E. B. The book is absurd, deceitful and slanderous. In Defense of Science No. 16 in this pair a theoretician, and Akimov - a practitioner. In doing so, they most often referred to each other's results. The main work of their theory is the book Shipov G. AND. The theory of physical vacuum. M. 1997 Gennady Shipov "Theory of physical vacuum".

The scientific community acceptedKruglyakov E. P. "Scientists" from the Highway-3. Commission for Combating Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. M. 2009 her 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.

Shipov writes a lot in his book Shipov G. AND. The 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 very different esoterics: wave geneticsP. P., Wagner V., Leonova-Gariaeva E. BUT. Wave replicative displays of DNA and its immediate environment. Trinitarian Academy, biolocation, "charged" water, biofield, homeopathyA. Nothing, in which everything, or Clairvoyant dark matter. In Defense of Science No. 13-14, extrasensory perception, levitation, telepathy, telekinesis and so on.

The spread of pseudoscientific views of torsionists was facilitated byKruglyakov E. P. "Scientists" from the Highway-3. Commission for Combating Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. M. 2009 and 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, they declareByalko A. IN. Torsion myths. Nature, what armortreated by generators of torsion beams 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, torsionists more than onceKruglyakov E. P. "Scientists" from the Highway-3. Commission for Combating Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. M. 2009 unsuccessfully tried to "realize the potential" of their generators: to introduce them at the production of Norilsk Nickel, to clean the Yauza river, transfer heating networks of Bulgaria to "advanced technologies", create a drug for cancer, and so on Further.

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, which will rise into the air without jet thrust, as well as other vehicles that do not need an internal engine combustion. 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 1994International Research Institute of Cosmoplanetary Anthropoecology named after Academician V.P. Kaznacheeva and the International Institute of Space Anthropoecology is still in operation.

Its employees statedKruglyakov E. P. "Scientists" from the Highway-3. Commission for Combating Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. M. 2009that they study “the effect of torsion fields on a living being”, “compare astrological and astrophysical data” of patients, can 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 patentPatent No. 2140796 - Device for energy effects to the device, which, according to the creators' plan, 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

AttemptsAudretsch J., Lammerzahl C. Neutron interference: general theory of the influence of gravity, inertia and space-time torsion. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General discovering the torsion fields that the pseudoscientists are talking about have not been successful in laboratory conditions. Therefore, physicists believeMohanty S., Sarkar U. Constraints on background torsion field from K-physics. Physics Letters B; Alexandrov E. B. The book is absurd, false and slanderous. In Defense of Science No. 16 torsion fields with purely hypothetical energy.

Torsionists claim thisKruglyakov E. P. "Scientists" from the Highway-3. Commission for Combating Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. M. 2009that evidence will soon be found. Criticism about their theory, they sweep asideAlexandrov E. B. The book is absurd, deceitful and slanderous. In Defense of Science No. 16 via demagoguery: peremptorily refer to Einstein, accuse RAS academicians of having links with “overseas sponsors”.

The lack of evidence of the existence of torsion fields does not prevent them from conductingByalko A. IN. Torsion myths. Nature experiments on "irradiation" of 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 publishedKruglyakov E. P. "Scientists" from the Highway-3. Commission for Combating Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. M. 2009 his 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 a theoretical physicist, Nobel laureateThe Nobel Prize in Physics 2003. The nobel prize Vitaly Ginzburg. The torsionists are protected by another ownerThe Nobel Prize in Physics 2020. Roger Penrose. The nobel prize Nobel Prizes Roger Penrose is the creator of the controversial concept of quantum psychology.

Even "physicists" from RANS are skeptical about the work of torsionistsKruglyakov E. P. "Scientists" from the Highway-3. Commission for Combating Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. M. 2009. And the physics section of this organization refused to take Akimov's Institute under its auspices.

The torsionists' miscalculations are visibleByalko A. IN. Torsion myths. Nature even in their theoretical calculations: for example, their "magic" fields do not have energy, but they call them 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.

The story is indicative in this respectKruglyakov E. P. "Scientists" from the Highway-3. Commission for Combating Pseudoscience and Falsification of Scientific Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. M. 2009 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 harmful effects microwave oven, 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 magic fields of torsionists simply do not exist.