Psi wheel with telekinesis

Dijital Silence

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I've recently been watching a few videos on youtube about a certain psi-wheel. Now that people scientifically found out how to make this certain piece of paper spin on top of a needle, people have now done the effect under a glass bowl. The people who do it under glass claim they have telekinetic powers. The conditions are a piece of paper placed on a needle which is under a bowl with no openings for air and no trick table. The paper then spins from "telekinetic" powers. The thing that bothers me is that people say that this is PROOF for telekinetic powers. This feat has been rattling around in my head and bothering me for a while now. And since I have already had experience with people posting shoddy videos of their own sleight of hand on youtube, I figure if everybody starts posting their own videos (like they are now with this psi wheel) and little kids are doing their own with terrible acting, there is probably an explanation besides telekinesis. (Just like the hundreds of shoddy videos of people moving objects with invisible thread and claiming they have powers.) And when explanations starts coming out, I would feel safe to bet that the people who still claim they have powers will continue to say "No! See how I (so and so). So that's not the explanation!" What are all of your thoughts about this effect?
 
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CynicalSkeptic

Thanks. I'll have to look at that when I get back home. I really hope it has something logical to say. I'd have quoted the entire post but it won't let me yet.
 
Dijital Silence said:
What are all of your thoughts about this effect?
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First, I am suspicious about any psi wheels using aluminum or copper foil. These can be spun easily by placing rotating magnetic fields in the room. For example, certain windings of electric motors will generate a rotating magnetic field outside the motor, which would cause the aluminum or copper to spin. Nikola Tesla did exactly that one hundred years ago to promote his polyphase motor concept, except he used a copper egg instead of a psi wheel.

However, I am not beyond experimenting myself. I was surprised to find that I, too, can cause a psi wheel to spin by holding my hands near it. Even more uncanny, I was playing with a stick as a wand (as in the Harry Potter movies), and I could cause the wheel to spin by pointing the stick at it.

It turns out that I can do this much easier on some days, and can't get any results at all on other days. This led me to practice every day for several months. I now have a place setup in my workshop to investigate this more seriously.

There really does seem to be a non-kinetic physics at play. Further, it would appear the environment also plays a role. To show one particular day when the wheels were spinning, I recorded the event and posted it online.
www dot youtube.com/watch?v=ZRbe7st2zIo

The heat explanation is not correct. Heat alone has nothing to do with this, but skin conductance may. Every object possesses the property of conductance, even a cup of warm water. It may be that conductance increases with blood flow, as does body heat. This is just a hypothesis and one I hope to test.

Another reason the heat explanation is wrong is because heat doesn't make things spin. Rising air currents might make something spin if the airfoil of the wheel is correct. But the psi wheels do not have the correct airfoil. Also, any air convection would cause the paper wheel to wobble up and down, not spin.
 
There are physics explanations that require no special set up, not even magnets, while still doing it under a glass cover.

If you can't get that to happen, then just recognize that for a fair amount of money and the knowledge of where to look, you can buy this set up as a magic trick.

But believers will believe.
 
I'd be more likely to give the 'under a glass bowl' test some credit if it was a bell jar with a properly ground edge, on a flat plate, with a good coat of sealant. A glass bowl on a table is an example of an extremely poor seal; it's one non-flat surface against another non-flat surface, so there will be a gap. It might be small enough to be non-obvious on a youtube video, but it's there. Blowing gently at the edge of the bowl would make enough air current inside the bowl to rotate the wheel.
 
volantis said:
First, I am suspicious about any psi wheels using aluminum or copper foil. These can be spun easily by placing rotating magnetic fields in the room. For example, certain windings of electric motors will generate a rotating magnetic field outside the motor, which would cause the aluminum or copper to spin. Nikola Tesla did exactly that one hundred years ago to promote his polyphase motor concept, except he used a copper egg instead of a psi wheel.

However, I am not beyond experimenting myself. I was surprised to find that I, too, can cause a psi wheel to spin by holding my hands near it. Even more uncanny, I was playing with a stick as a wand (as in the Harry Potter movies), and I could cause the wheel to spin by pointing the stick at it.

It turns out that I can do this much easier on some days, and can't get any results at all on other days. This led me to practice every day for several months. I now have a place setup in my workshop to investigate this more seriously.

There really does seem to be a non-kinetic physics at play. Further, it would appear the environment also plays a role. To show one particular day when the wheels were spinning, I recorded the event and posted it online.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRbe7st2zIo

The heat explanation is not correct. Heat alone has nothing to do with this, but skin conductance may. Every object possesses the property of conductance, even a cup of warm water. It may be that conductance increases with blood flow, as does body heat. This is just a hypothesis and one I hope to test.

Another reason the heat explanation is wrong is because heat doesn't make things spin. Rising air currents might make something spin if the airfoil of the wheel is correct. But the psi wheels do not have the correct airfoil. Also, any air convection would cause the paper wheel to wobble up and down, not spin.
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Really!? Conductance? Not blowing on the wheel and cupping one's hand to direct the stream of air in such a way as to make the wheel turn. Put some glitter and confetti on the table and light a few sticks of incense near the wheel and then use your "conductance" to rotate the wheel.
 
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