How is mechanical energy measured?

Second chance to answer: If you believe "healing energy" been quantitatively measured, can you explain how?

  • I am simplifying the question. Apparently my language was unclear the first time. "Tony I" claimed healing energy has been measured but obviously didn't see my question the first time since he didn't answer. Two important components of this question are: 1. How has ENERGY been measured, not its perceived effects. 2. How has energy been QUANTITATIVELY measured, not how you've experienced it. Links to articles and stories of "unexplained healing" DO NOT ANSWER THIS QUESTION. Spontaneous healing can be explained through rational science, despite your claims. I am particularly interested in: 1. Who measured it? 2. What equipment was used, and what were the units of measure? 3. What process was used to measure it?

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    Healing energy has been measured via many different devices and measurements, notably including the use of a Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID). See for example, the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, Harcourt Brace & Co., Ltd., Edinburgh, which reports:. "In the early 1980’s, Dr. John Zimmerman began a series of important studies on therapeutic touch, using a SQUID magnetometer at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver. Zimmerman discovered that a huge pulsating biomagnetic field emanated from the hands of a TT practitioner. Confirmation of Zimmerman’s findings came in 1992, when Seto and colleagues, in Japan, studied practitioners of various martial arts and other healing methods. The "Qi emission" from the hands is so strong that they can be detected with a simple magnetometer consisting of two coils, of 80,000 turns of wire. Since then, a number of studies of QiGong practitioners have extended these investigations to the sound, light, and thermal fields emitted by healers." The recent study "The Measurement and Characterization of Charge Accumulation and Electromagnetic Emissions from Bioenergy Healers" (William T. Joines, Stephen B. Baumann, Jeremy Kim, Jonathan M. Zile & Christine Simmons Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham and Rhine Research Center, Durham) includes the following in their introduction: "Numerous studies indicate that attentive humans can mentally influence living systems. The range of systems affected runs the gamut from groups of cells (e.g. Nash, 1982); Baumann, et al, 1985) to whole animals (e.g. Grad, 1965; Watkins and Watkins, 1972) to human subjects (e.g. Braud and Schlitz, 1991). Several recent reviews have been published (e.g. Schlitz and Braud, 1997; Targ, 1997; Benor 2001). Benor notes that in 131 controlled studies of distant mental intention, 56 found significant effects. Further, a systematic review of randomized clinical trials found that 57%, involving 2774 patients, showed a positive treatment effect (Astin, et al, 2000)" And reports the following result: "In the present study we have tested 35 people (10 controls and 25 healers), many of them multiple times, and we have evidence that one of the healers did something quite extraordinary twice in one testing session. This subject emitted bursts of blue/ultraviolet light and concurrent charge buildup on the body as measured by our electrodes. Also, we have recorded evidence that many of the healers produced abundant heat emission (infrared light) from their hands and faces as recorded by our infrared camera. The testing results that we have obtained to date have been presented as an oral presentation at the 2005 Society for Scientific Exploration Conference and as a poster and an oral presentation at the 2006 BIAL Foundation Symposium." Healing energy has been little researched and even less understood by most of the people in mainstream medicine and medical science, but that in no way invalidates it. It simply has not received the attention and funding it needs as is true of many healing modalities and natural items that do not fall within the understanding, approval or control and profit of mainstream medicine. As I said before, I surely don't have a good understanding of it, but neither am I so close-minded that I reject it simply because I don't fully understand it nor am I one of those who are fooled into thinking that today's science has all or even most of the answers. I know that history has taught us over and over again that such is not the case. I am actually quite the fan of true science - and I am so thankful that other fields of science are not so controlled by a close minded group with an agenda for profit as medical science is. If it were, we would still see scientific studies arguing that the earth was flat and the heavens revolved around the earth. In another century we probably will look back and find that today's science did not even understand the MAJORITY of energy forces in the universe, including those in healing. What ignorant snobbery we see here! Thanks for the "second chance". Want to give me another one?

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Unfortunately Sabeena, you can't measure a measurement. That's what energy is - a measurement of work capability. All the pseudoscience in the world won't change that. You are not going to get the answers you seek, they will duck and weave, and that should tell you something.

Gary Y

Why such an angry avatar/pic? Apply your questions to a thing called Gravity. You can't answer them for this 'well known' form of energy. Also, please explain how paired electrons INSTANTLY KNOW and CHANGE their spin in response to a spin change in the other one of the pair - no matter how far apart in the universe they may be! The quantum physicists can't explain it, but maybe you can. Best wishes and Happy New Year.

Doctor J

Lots of verbiage, little in the way of actual answering except for Tony I. Kudos to him for attempting to answer, but lets look at what he actually says. . SQUID's are indeed real devices, and they are very sensitive to electro-magnetic fields, even biological ones. But we already know the body has bio-electric energy...we've been measuring it for years. Thats why devices like SQUIDS were developed. His first reference is copypasted (naturally) from a Reiki healing website.Here's the original website http://www.reiki.org/reikinews/ScienceMeasures.htm It is an opinion piece by a Reiki practitioner. The original study it refers t...from over 25 years ago...is not available for review without joining a pay website. However, I am actually very familiar with most of the articles on TT and Reiki from that era, and they are uniformly poorly done, uncontrolled and statistically flawed. The book Therapeutic Touch (ed Scheiber/Selbie) has reprinted most of the landmark TT, studies, as well as provided commentary and an excellent history of the TT movement. His next reference is copypasted from....wait for it..........The Parapsychological Association Convention 2004 . I really needn't say more, but I will. The introduction is full of credulous assertion that energy healing is a proven phenomena and they are just attempting to show a mechanism. Their trial was a very small study..only 25 healers and 10 "controls", and only 6 people showed any electromagnetic anomalies. That is all they showed, an EM anomoly. Because that all it is until other natural explanations are ruled out. They made no attempt at all to consider other explanations. That isn't science, it is pseudo-science, only doing a study to confirm something you already believe on faith. He keeps saying "X" is little researched and poorly understood by mainstream science. Wrong and disingenuous. For all versions of energy healing (TT, Reiki, qi gong, prayer, Wiccan) there is zero evidence of any efficacy, zero evidence of a life force and we understand that very well. Time to move on. It is Alties that are the closed minded ones.

SkepDoc 3.0

Good old limited 3D science raises it*s ugly head again.. So science can rationally explain spontaneous healing, can it?..How? There are countless dimensions and therefore *realities*, many with different *rules* and laws,and physics that differ from what happens in 3D..As our 3D senses cannot see or hear or even sense those other realities, which directly impinge on the physical body, how the heck can 3D science *explain* or test them when they dont even accept they exist?..The finite simply can NOT perceive or understand the infinite.. Chinese medicine, which has been effective for thousands of years, is also dismissed by 200 years old medical science!..The arrogance is breathtaking!..Even Osteopathy has been dismissed as *mumbo jumbo* by a distinguished medic on tv and radio!..I repeat, what arrogance and what ignorance, and how unscientific - it cant exist, so it doesnt exist and we wont test it! Boy, have you got some surprises coming very shortly To 3D science, even the soul and spirit are *fiction*..Why then have doctors and medical staff written books describing what they personally experienced, the leaving of the spirit from a body of the dying?..Why also are some doctors placing objects on highly placed shelves in operating theatres to try to test whether patients are able to look down on every detail of their operation while they are fully unconscious and discuss it with their surgeon upon awakening, as has happened many times now?

TERRY S

This is the same question asked again, but leaving out the request for quantitative measurements - which are used as valid scientific methods. The only answers which are acceptable to this person are those of skeptics and nay-sayers. The rest of our answers are a waste of time. This is just another method of propaganda for skeptics. I suggest we leave them to their limited physical world and direct our energies to where it will make a difference.

Theresa

The term "healing energy" is somewhat an ambiguous term because every living thing is energy. When you break down DNA, it is not an acid at all as it's name (desoxyribonucleic acid) implies, but a crystalline salt. The biofield (energy) that surrounds the body and is integral to all our cells is what actually controls the DNA. Every cell in the human organism emits light, stores light and uses light to communicate with all the other cells in the body. When DNA gets a command, it sends energy to messenger RNA that in turn sends energy to the Ribosomes and that is where proteins are created to effect an action. The Chinese have studied this phenomenon for over 5,000 years and acupuncture, chiropractic, and herbal medicines all attempting to BALANCE the energy flow is what Chinese medicine is all about. Dr. Popp, a quantum physicist actually measured light energy as it was being emitted from cells. The "healing energy" you are talking about is really not magic or special to any single person, but in us all. The biofield must be in balance, or we cannot be truly healthy. The body uses this system of energetics to see if something is compatible and will be used to nourish the body or to see if it is toxic and can harm the body. Since this energy is at the quantum level, it is not easily measured without very sophisticated instrumentation, as did Popp. You can see demonstrations of this energy field in nature, everywhere. Fish that swim in unison do so by using a process of "photo sucking" where they are all connected by an energy field. There is an interesting energy healing that scientist are very aware of, but to this day do not know how it happens and no one has been able to explain it, even though it happens. If you bombard a cell with a high U.V. light and kill 99% of the cell, you can come back the same day and bombard the cell with the same frequency of light, but at a very low intensity, and the cell completely repairs. This called, "photo repair." Popp used a machine his student built to do the measurements and that was quantitative. It was called a photomultiplier. It is still the best way to measure light emissions from cells today. The AMA journal JAMA, had an article talking about how light was found being emitted from the mitochondria of a cell. I use a very special technique in my practice to test the biofield of people and use this energy field to determine what nutrients, supplements, or anything in relation to how that person's body will accept or reject that substance. It is so accurate that I have dentists who will accept my testing before they will accept their x-rays, etc. to determine infections and things like dead teeth, etc. I am writing a book that explains all this in much more detail, but it has taken me lots of time to do the research because mainstream, western medicine is completely oblivious to all this and they seem to believe things like Chinese medicine is not something to be listened too and energy studies are not something the drug companies can elicit a profit from, so it is not pursued. good luck to you

onlymatch4u

I do not have the answers to your three questions at the end, but thought I would help keep the answer alive and maybe provide some ideas to help you find your answers. I would think that if this energy has been measured, it is then a guess at best to ascribe what this energy is doing and what it's effects are. But I would never put these attempts down because I believe in this force. I believe it is called prayer a lot of times, and hands on healing, and miracles. Also, the body uses it on itself..and I believe it is what is involved in a known medical syndrome called Broken Heart Syndrome...and why many older people die within a year after their spouse dies. And why people are said to will themselves to live, or to die. And I do believe that it will never be accepted by most scientists because it is not well measured and demonstrated in a laboratory; around skeptical people; and under close scrutiny, because it requires a trance-like state that is stymied by people staring at you (or if there is a god who does not allow the energy to be measured, used or seen unless we have faith). And sometimes science allows for thinking that does not have a full explaination yet, thus is not fully explained rationally yet. Not all healings can be explained through rational healing; I respectfully guide you away from this thinking. We do not know yet why when a child under the age of 2 is diagnosed with a cancer called neuroblastoma, all we do to help the child heal is NOTHING..it will resolve on it's own. We fully treat the child over the age of 2 with the cancer with everything in our arsenal. It is humbling to see a newborn (yes, a newborn), or 1 month old baby, full of cancer (and you can see lumps all under the skin) and do nothing. But the babe cures itself..it is awesome and truly humbling, especially when one does see the the effects on a child over two ( at this junction, 75% fatal). And why we can only save 25% percent of those kids, when we give them the same treatment. May I say I use prayer to help send healing energies, as well as hands on healing. I applaud your questions and will watch for more answers to it, and watch for your further questions. Rock on, my friend.

annie42

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