The science of torsion fields: unlocking Tesla's unsolved mystery
new(Extracted from The Science of Torsion Fields / Sun Color Culture / by Prof. Si-Chen Lee)
1990: observing "external qi" in the remarkable practice of qigong
When I was working on my PhD in electrical engineering at Stanford University in the 1970s, my subject was semiconductor materials and devices, which meant becoming fluent in quantum mechanics, modern physics, solid state physics and semiconductor device physics. When I returned in 1982 to teach in the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University, I taught those same courses, gathering as much material as I could to write my lecture notes, and I knew the theory intimately. I also wrote a Chinese-language textbook, Semiconductor Device Physics, which won the 20th Golden Tripod Award. This body of physics was mine to use freely.
In 1987, answering a call from Chen Li-An, then chairman of the National Science Council, I joined the council's qigong research program. I was already very curious about the external qi of qigong, but it was not until 1990 that I had the chance to run an external qi experiment with Master Li, whom the council had invited. He directed killing qi from his palm at a sealed test tube fifteen centimeters away for two to five minutes, and the chromosomes of the fibroblast cells cultured inside broke apart one after another, while the rate of protein synthesis fell by forty percent. I could make no sense of it. Did the external qi contain shock waves or ultraviolet light? What else could carry enough energy to break chromosomes? But ultraviolet light would have injured the master's palm, and his palm was entirely unharmed; and it is far too difficult for long-wavelength shock waves to damage molecules on the micrometer scale. So what is the physical nature of external qi? Is it a fifth force field, alongside gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and the weak force? With the physics I had at the time I was completely at a loss, with no idea at all, and could only keep the question in mind and wait for the chance to understand it.
1999: encountering the information field (the spirit world)
From 1993 onwards I worked on finger reading, psychokinesis and other exceptional functions of the human body, and trained several young people with strong abilities, among them Miss T and young Wang, who were able to take part in fairly demanding work. In 1999, when the president of the Physical Society of Taiwan brought more than ten professors of physics and psychology to my laboratory to examine the phenomenon of finger reading, I met Dr. Chen of the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center. He was the first scientist to test Miss T's finger reading with the character for Buddha and to find that unusual images appeared.
From this work we came to propose together that, alongside the material universe of four-dimensional spacetime that we know, there exists another realm — an information field, or spirit world, filled with consciousness, densely populated with intelligent consciousnesses and information websites. Every religion, on this account, has its own information website, rich and varied in content. Beyond the material world, in other words, there is a spirit world, a world of consciousness: the first is the hardware and the second the software, and only together do they make up a complete life.
At the time, Dr. Chen was thinking about finding a physical tool with which to communicate with the spirits or masters of that world, and so bring it within the scope of modern physics. The question was: what physical tool could do that? He found some material online suggesting that a strong crystal qi field might break through the barrier between the two worlds and allow communication with the other side.
Dr. Chen was then working at the Synchrotron Radiation Research Center under the National Applied Research Laboratories, and was skilled at building precision equipment. From 2000 onwards he built a range of crystal qi field generators and qi field detectors, hoping to measure the strength and shape of these fields. But however he designed them, the magnetic, superconducting and electronic detectors picked up no qi signal at all. Miss T's palm was sensitive to qi fields, and she could sense the strength and shape of a crystal qi field. She therefore became the best detector we had for studying the physical properties of these fields. Because human sensing can only be compared subjectively, however, and cannot be quantified objectively, the results could serve only as a qualitative guide, pointing to a direction for research — one that could be checked quickly once a detector capable of picking up a real signal was built.
2004: the torsion field suddenly appears
In January 2004, together with Wu Mei-Yun, editor-in-chief of Han Sheng Publishing, I visited Professor Shen Jin-Chuan and Sun Chu-Lin at the Institute of Human Body Science of the China University of Geosciences in Beijing, to produce a book in dialogue form setting out the history and results of the extraordinary work the two of them had done over the previous twenty years, for the record. My own collaboration with Professor Shen and Ms. Sun had ended back in 2000 and we had not met for years. On seeing me, Professor Shen handed me two articles by Professor Jiang Xing-Liu of Beihang University, introducing a field the Soviet Union had spent the previous fifty years researching: the torsion field. I had never so much as heard the term, and had no idea what it was.
We talked during the day and recorded the conversations, then rested in the evening. I used the evenings to read the articles, and the further I read the more astonished and excited I became. I read them four or five times over, unable to stop, as though a new world were opening in front of me. The torsion field, it turned out, was not a new idea at all. As early as 1915, Einstein put forward general relativity, arguing that the geometry of time and space is determined by the energy and momentum of objects, and that the presence of mass causes spacetime to curve. To simplify the mathematics, however, he set the twisting of spacetime — the torsion field — to zero, which makes general relativity a torsion-free theory of gravity. If the curvature of spacetime is equivalent to producing gravitational attraction, then the twisting of spacetime must be equivalent to producing a twisting force — but Einstein had discarded that force field. In 1922 the French mathematical physicist Élie Joseph Cartan added the spin angular momentum carrying spacetime torsion back into general relativity, filling it out into a more complete theory, but the work never received the attention it deserved. From the 1960s onwards, Russian scientists studied torsion fields in depth, in theory and in experiment, and arrived at several important physical properties:
1. The torsion field is a twisting of spacetime, much as the gravitational field is a curving of spacetime, and it is not shielded by any natural material. If there is a wall between two objects, for instance, it does not shield gravity, and it should not shield the torsion field either. As it travels through natural matter it therefore loses no energy, though it is scattered, and its only action is to change the spin state of matter.
2. The torsion field propagating in four-dimensional spacetime is not bound by the light cone: its speed exceeds that of light, and it can travel not only into the future but into the past.
3. Once the source of a torsion field is removed, the spin structure of that space remains behind — that is, the torsion field has a residual effect. These physical properties, as the Russian scientists described them, turned out to match exactly what three years of work had taught us about the crystal qi field. I concluded at once that the crystal qi field was the torsion field. The fifth force field had shown itself, and what remained was to design experiments to test it.
