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The man supposedly has lived for decades without food and water as an energy source. There's a conversation on reddit about this:

http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/ceufi/remember_that_guy...

I'll copy a comment I made there:

Actually, the laws of physics are not necessarily being called into question here.

As Gravity13 pointed out, this actually is possible within known physics. It's possible he's getting his energy from some other source. He's not breaking the law of conservation of energy (as demonstrated by the fact that he didn't poop or pee).

You also have to keep in mind that even modern physics doesn't know exactly what the nature of energy is. When modern physics can't tell you for sure whether a block of space has a very low amount of energy, or an infinite amount of energy, that should give you pause.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_energy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-point_energy

That said, I think we need to get James Randi on this.



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