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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
Does this suggest any new presentation themes?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070912/ap_o......kilogram maybe they can make scales which magnify the effect?
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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kregg Inner circle 1950 Posts |
They'll have to stop using the metric system ... or tell overweight people to stop using standard scales.
POOF!
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Silly Walter the Polar Bear Special user 506 Posts |
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On 2007-09-12 15:11, Jonathan Townsend wrote: An effect with that presentation will clear the room faster than a 350 lb woman in a bean eating contest. Laypeople are even less interested in the shrinking kilogram than they are in magic, specifically mentalism. |
tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
So lets say you if have three of the same thing, that weigh the same as each other. You could make one appear as if it lost weight by secretly adding weight to the other two. You would have to weigh them against each rather than put them on a scale.
I saw a play in which a guys hat was secretly switched for an identical one each night. Some times for a size smaller, Some times for a size larger. The guy thought his head was changing size. If you wake up and the world is twice as big then have you shrunk in half? In other words how could use a known reference to distort reality? Is that what you mean Jon?
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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enginemagic Special user Bluffton Indiana 597 Posts |
Yes the doctors office scales was digital & can see my weight in KG or LBS I weighed 100.6 KG on that scale. In the article Jonathan put the link to; throughout the years the scales that place is using can be off a bit especially Micorgrams,thats a very fine line to work with?,or maybe the metal evaporates some of its elements? cool thing to see though. As far as objects loosing weight the automobiles rusting away in the salt/snow belt are atleast 200 lbs lighter in the 20 years of use LOL
theres a lot to learn out there,many interesting subjects,and hobbies to enjoy
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enginemagic Special user Bluffton Indiana 597 Posts |
John your alchmey/metalstudies give you anny clue to that metal issue?
theres a lot to learn out there,many interesting subjects,and hobbies to enjoy
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kosmoshiva Loyal user Canada 255 Posts |
The fashion industry has been playing fast and loose with measurements for years now ...
There's also a great Sufi story about a thief blaming the dog for stealing the meat, the dog being weighed and found to be exactly the same weight as the missing meat (the weight, of course, being known!). If this is the dog, where is the meat? If this is the meat, where is the dog? If they corrected the scale in Paris to read one kilogram, what would 50 micrograms actually weigh? And if they didn't, from what standard are they measuring the micrograms?
Don't forget to breathe.
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Josh Chaikin Inner circle Kansas City 1430 Posts |
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On 2007-09-12 21:33, tommy wrote: I think that is the issue at hand, at least my interpretation. The other replica models all retain the same weight, despite being cast at the same time; the scientists aren't sure if the other ones are getting heavier, or if the standard is getting lighter. At any rate, as magicians, do we not already distort reality? |
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