Physiological Study for Spoon Bending


Author: Machi M//Liu C

Affiliation: Tokyo Denki University, Graduate School of Engineering, Dept. of Electronic Engineering
Conference/Journal: J Intl Soc Life Info Science
Date published: 2002
Other:
 Volume ID: 20   ,  Issue ID: 1   ,  Pages: 106-111   ,  Word Count: 111  
    There have been many TV programs in which persons demonstrate spoon bending. We are not so much interested in this, but we are interested in the mechanism of why a hard spoon bends. However, we think that it has not been reported using scientific methods because spoon bending is used as an entertainment on stage or as a child's game. We worked with a male student at a junior high school who can perform spoon bending easily. When we made physiological measurements during spoon bending, we found results were similar to physiological phenomena seen in qigong and ki-aikidou. We understood that this respiration played an important role in this spoon bending.