Randy's Donuts
2013 · 38m · Documentary
Who is Randy Powell and why is he claiming that a 9 digit pattern called Vortex Based Mathematics (V.B.M.), interconnects all of science, all of technology and all of nature around a Torus, nature's original Donut?
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