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Spatial and physical are not exclusive adjectives. This conversation has transformed into a matter of semantics. If you choose to define physical as "any aspect of an object or substance that can be measured or perceived without changing its identity" (as Wikipedia does, not that Wikipedia is...

Saying that the entires in the moment of inertia tensor have no physical consequence on their own is exactly equivalent to saying that mass has no physical consequence on its own since it occupies positions in the mass tensor. After all, [Torque] = [Inertia tensor] x [Angular acceleration] is...