Ok. Someone seriously needs to stop everything and explain to me how this works!!!
This person has 5 glasses lined up in increasing sizes and right in front of the camera, without visible trickery, they begin by pouring the liquid from the smallest glass to the next larger size. With each pour to a larger size the glass is always full!
The volumes of the larger glasses are definitely greater, and to prove it they pour all of the liquid from the largest container into all of the smaller containers – filling them all simultaneously!
Seriously, this is freaky. All I can figure is that this liquid expands with the introduction of air into the mix or something like that.
At first I thought perhaps this stuff was like the water you can walk on, but it doesn’t seem to have the same properties as non-newtonian fluid. So I really have no clue how this is done.
The consensus on Youtube seems to be that there’s water in the last 4 cups before he pours anything in it, but I can’t see it. And for whatever reason, the videos linked to in the player after the video finishes are mostly about depth perception, though it doesn’t look like a perspective trick.
We need to get James Randi on this one :)
I was thinking as I watched it that it had something to do with different compartments in the glasses, but I’m definitely not positive about that. In any case, I’m not going to think about it too much as I’d rather not lose sleep over something that was purposefully created to be hard to figure out. But I wouldn’t mind learning how it works either!
Trick glasses. I think all glasses, except the first, have a spacer. You then pour the liquid between glass and the spacer.
hmm i think this one is rather about the fluid. I think it behaves like coke when you pour it into a glass it makes bubles, this however stays in this form. hmm weird
The glasses have a cylinder in the middle that reduces the volume. If you look carefully you can see it, it goes up about 80% of the height of the glass. Also, when he pours in the fluid, he is careful to pour on the side, but twice directs the stream into the middle of the glass and you can see the stream splash off the top of the spacer.
There must be clear fluid in the glasses before he pours in the cloudy fluid.
Followup…
You can see the clear fluid in the glasses “jiggle” when he moves the glass slightly just before he pours into it.
Also, the fluid becomes less opaque, and less viscous as he goes along. Compare the last drops to come out of the glass after the first pour to the last pour.
He needs to work on his technique for this illusion…..
I wish beers were like that :) I would be swapping beer from glass to glass all day :)
Kim:)
John, it’s either real magic or a trick, but the point of the exercise is did you enjoy watching it and the subsequent mental exercise and discussion?
If you didn’t enjoy it, the bloke failed. But it sounds like he succeeded.
That’s what those who try to explain everything, magic tricks to rainbows, misunderstand.
Magic is a means of entertainment, like singing or whatever – no-one will ever get a round of applause for revealing the secret of any trick like they could get if they learnt to do the trick and entertain people with it.
But that, of course, takes real effort.
BTW I think it can be done with beer and am prepared to research that if someone is willing to provide adequate funding ;-)
yeah chris is right. Just take a look at the last glass when he pours the fluid. Towards the end you can see the fluid splashes off from something in the middle! well done chris
I disagree, John W. The entertainment for me is a combination of figuring out what’s going on and knowing how it’s done. The end and the means are both important, not just the means. To quote Carl Sagan, “It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.”