Egely Wheel telekinesis -- fact or fiction?

[frauenfelder]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/08/01/egely-wheel-telekinesis-fac.html

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[anon21100188]

Spoiler alert:

it’s fiction.

[enkidoodler]

soooo… IR radiative pressure on one side makes the disk spin?
like the radiometers I used to buy as Xmas ornament gifts

put a hot cup of coffee next to it and let’s see what happens?
a magnet? a coil?

EDIT - skipped around, looks like air flow? rats, i was going to use this to power my time machine (and go back and kill Hitler)

[Uncle_Squeegee]

Covering his mouth and nose would be a way to see how much breath affects it.

It would be interesting to see what happens if he places both hands near it, too.

[generic_name]

“seems to turn faster with my right hand than my left hand!”

Have you been doing any kind of “bio-energy exercises” with that hand recently? Don’t lie.

[nothingfuture]

Isn’t there some rule about headlines that are a question?

[tikaro]

I’d provide a useful answer, but there’s a different rule about responding to comments that are a question.

[anon75574637]

Is there?

[anon75430791]

I think there’s a whole thread about it here, right?

[hecep]

@generic_name

Have you been doing any kind of “bio-energy exercises” with that hand recently? Don’t lie.

Google knows.

[d_r]

No Amazon link?

[TomFury13]

I’d use mine to go back and date Maureen O’Hara, but I digress …

[ax11]

Without having seen the video: I’t s set to motion by body warmth. There are similar ones that react on light -which is basically the same- and the glass case (containing a vacuum) gave it away.

Edit: The most important fact, of course: There is no fucking telekinesis.

[dave_t]

Experiment 5D - Covering nose and mouth
Observations: at 3:50, experimenter faints from lack of oxygen
Result: Inconclusive

[tsath]

Does energetically performing biological exercises with my right hand count?