21st March 2006, 6:13 PM
So long as he doesn't hide everything in "a box" and shows only a big moniter with what they would LIKE to do, while claiming it's all actual IN the box they won't show us, but promising the box IS doing all the grahical work by spinning it around so we can be sure there are no "hidden compartments" or wires and then having his assistent ask a member of the audience to go and check it out.
That's actually what I've seen happen in videos of "perpetual motion machines". They run a magic show and convince people to give them money for it. All well and good if they admit it's a trick, but in the form of deception, there's a problem.
That's actually what I've seen happen in videos of "perpetual motion machines". They run a magic show and convince people to give them money for it. All well and good if they admit it's a trick, but in the form of deception, there's a problem.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)