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A torsion field (also called axion field, spin field, spinor field, and microlepton field) is a feature of a pseudoscientific〔 British Broadcasting Corporation 2006, Record Number: 110BEC9C155A5AB8〕 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. This discredited theory, conceived in the Soviet Union by a group of physicists in the 1980s, was loosely based on Einstein-Cartan theory and some variant solutions of Maxwell's equations but does not have a solid grounding in scientific fact. The group, led by Anatoly Akimov and Gennady Shipov,〔(Gennady Shipov ) homepage〕 began the research as the state-sponsored Center for Nontraditional Technologies. The group disbanded in 1991 when their research was exposed as a fraud and an embezzlement of government funding by Ye. B. Aleksandrov. Despite the research being proven fraudulent, Akimov and Shipov received financing for torsion field research from the Russian Ministry of Science from 1992 to 1995 and from the Russian Ministry of Defense from 1996 to 1997, and continued further secretly,〔 as a private enterprise called The International Institute for Theoretical and Applied Physics (later called UVITOR).〔(UVITOR ) website〕 UVITOR is operating from Bangkok, Thailand since 2005 and appears to offer medical products and services on its premise.〔http://www.mybrainpoweronline.com/index.html〕 The torsion field research has secured support from a number of prominent Thai academics and the national funding agency.〔http://www.pantip.com/cafe/wahkor/topic/X12939828/X12939828.html〕〔http://www.dailynews.co.th/article/154267/171616〕 Presently championed exclusively outside of reputable scientific research due to its lack of evidence and absence of sound theoretical underpinning, the theory has been used to proclaim faster-than-light travel (FTL), extra-sensory perception (ESP), homeopathy, levitation, and other paranormal phenomena, and has been used to provide a rationale for the purported functioning of miracle cures and similar products. These claims have no independent backing. == Detailed description == In physics, a field is an assignment of a quantity (vector, tensor, or spinor) to every point of the space containing it. The word torsion refers to any variable that describes rotation. Thus, torsion fields do exist in established physics aside from in this pseudoscientific case, where the terms have been misappropriated. For example, an electromagnetic wave with circular polarization or the stress tensor of a solid body under torsion stress can be described as torsion fields, although such usage is rare. The torsion tensor is a quantity in general relativity, and plays an important role in Einstein–Cartan theory. Spinor fields, in particular fermionic fields, are existing concepts from particle physics and quantum field theory. Aside from this established research, 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 similar to electromagnetic waves, does not carry mass or energy but only information, and does so at speeds of up to 109 times the speed of light. If this were true, it would violate special relativity. At the same time they claim that spin-spin interaction is carried by neutrinos — which have very little mass and high energy — that it does not interact with matter but, at the same time, can be generated and detected easily.〔 (''in Russian'') (''English title:'' )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Torsion field (pseudoscience)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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