r/blackmagicfuckery • u/superzzgirl • Feb 03 '23
String theory?
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u/Representative-Dirt2 Feb 03 '23
Blackmagicfakery
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u/fetishfeature5000 Feb 03 '23
How is that not a sub already?
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u/billwoo Feb 03 '23
Cos its redundant, its never actual black magic? How would you even define what goes there.
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u/fetishfeature5000 Feb 03 '23
OG sub was actually about shit you couldn’t figure out. But douche canoes ruined it.
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u/majoraloysius Feb 03 '23
I’m so glad to see I’m not the only one dropping “douche canoe.”
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u/sometacosfordinner Feb 03 '23
I use it regularly at least once a day
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u/Representative-Dirt2 Feb 03 '23
My day is not complete without a douche canoe
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u/suburbanhavoc Feb 03 '23
Has more impact than just calling someone a douchebag or an asshole. It's more memorable.
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u/Jthundercleese Feb 03 '23
No, just string.
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u/Much_Highlight_1309 Feb 03 '23
Yeah. It's a clear pendulum motion from a string less than a meter high above the table.
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u/kingbloxerthe3 Feb 04 '23
And the fact that it probably wouldn't move a coin (at least for US coins) even if it created a magnetic field.
Also, wouldn't both negative and positive sides of a battery would need to be connected in some form of circuit for any electricity to pass through a conductive material anyways?
Also all four batteries on the spoons had the negative side on the spoon...
This is just lazy at this point...
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u/Ricky_Spannnish Feb 03 '23
I want to try this right now. But I’d have to get off the couch. I’m trying it though.
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u/corvus66a Feb 03 '23
I would support you if I could get up from my couch . Ping me later with the results ( and bring pizza)
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u/EngimoWorld Feb 03 '23
After taking this long That must've worked One of us managed to get off the couch
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u/Mediocre_Bit_405 Feb 03 '23
You can see the string if you look at his shirt and not the coin.
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u/TheRumpleForesk1n Feb 03 '23
You can see it the last few seconds of the video near the top left once they are putting the coin back down
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u/Head-like-a-carp Feb 03 '23
Is it irrational for me to have sort of a hatred of these kind of people. Now magicians are a different thing entirely. But these people who fake scientific phony principles by cheap tricks getting nothing but my disgust
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u/Unhinged_Taco Feb 03 '23
🤦♂️it's just a trick dude. He's not trying to convince you it's real science
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u/TheHighBuddha Feb 04 '23
If it was meant to be a magic trick, the batteries and spoon wouldn't be needed. The fact that he uses these means he wants you to think that they are responsible for the coin levitation. He further trys to prove they are responsible for the levitation, which is shown when he removes the battery and the coin falls. He is indeed trying to prove that some sort of fake science is responsible for the phenomenon. 🤦
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u/Unhinged_Taco Feb 04 '23
🤦♂️It's part of the trick to give it some level of illusion. He's not pretending to be mr scientist.
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u/negativepositiv Feb 03 '23
This is a very interesting science based trick. See, when you put three batteries on spoons, on their negative side, there is no effect, since electricity from a battery needs to flow from negative to positive, but if you add a fourth battery, also set on its negative side, that triggers a reaction where the person standing on a chair or ladder out of the shot pulls on the clear thread and makes the coin appear to float, which you can clearly see the coin swinging back and forth, suspended on a string from a point above. Isn't science amazing?
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u/Goldenhawk666 Feb 03 '23
Who would in right mind spend time to concoct a crazy idea like this , then spend time executing and get someone to record it and then have audacity to post it and waste everyone’s time. This is basically internet poop!
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u/Brugor Feb 03 '23
Last time this shit was uploaded you could literally see the string at the top of the screen.
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u/No-Setting-2669 Feb 03 '23
The coin started slow and drop slightly in anticipation of the battery being removed as well. As mentioned, focus on the string shine on his shirt.
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u/WordSmithyLeTroll Feb 03 '23
A changing electic field produces a changing magnetic field, and vice versa.
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u/DiMethylTriping Feb 03 '23
This is possible on our planet , with 2 opposing poles one up north one down south hence the North Pole and south pole .... This technology is already being used
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u/Unhinged_Taco Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
It's a little magic trick he's not trying to prove a scientific point.
Btw his right hand holds and manipulates the string.
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u/LangleyRemlin Feb 03 '23
At first I thought there were magnets inside the corks but after watching it a few more times it's definitely on a string.
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u/EagleEyes0001 Feb 03 '23
People really missing the point.. its a magic trick. It's not suppose to make sense...it's suppose to wow and amuse us, Not have a scientific explanation.
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u/rubi-style Feb 03 '23
Definitely fake. You may think that the electric current could maybe create a strong enough magnetic field but those batteries aren't doing shit as long as the contacts are not connected
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u/Hungry-Sentence-6722 Feb 03 '23
Nope, nothing. Tried a ferrous metal and a magnet. I’m too stupid to figure out how to upload a picture or I’d show it.
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u/MephistosGhost Feb 03 '23
My FIL, who was a math teacher, thought this shit was real and tried to recreate it at home, much to his disappointment and frustration when he couldn’t recreate the effect.
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u/ChainReaction2001 Feb 03 '23
You can see the string at the end when he takes the battery out for the last time
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u/ricozuri Feb 03 '23
Sigh. Thought it was such a neat effect and ready to replicate it. Got spoons, battery, coin, but no spring.
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Feb 03 '23
Me: Slowly sliding the batteries I got out to try this with my kids back into my pocket..
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u/nikejim02 Feb 04 '23
Mods: can we remove this? It’s obviously a fishing wire and is not convincing at all lol
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u/TotallyTouka Feb 04 '23
Magnetic field probably. All the batteries are connected through the conducting spoons and it makes the spoons magnetic so it’s attracted to them all at once making it spin around.
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u/Shamwowz21 Feb 23 '23
By placing the 4th battery, Apu tugs the string. By removing the 4th battery, Apu stops. Is magic
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u/amuse_bouche_1 Feb 03 '23
I’ve had spoons, batteries, & dimes all my life & didn’t know I could be doing this!
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u/werewolf7160 Feb 03 '23
magnetic field generated by battery ?
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u/lucasssotero Feb 03 '23
Batteries are dc voltage, you need ac to generate an electromagnetic field. Also, all of the batteries seem to be connected only by the negative pole, with the positive disconnected, so impossible to have any energy flowing there. Lastly, even if those 4 spoons were connected to an ac source and were soldered together (bc just touching would be a bad connection), it would still be only 1 winding, you need a coil with more than 1 winding to generate a decent field.
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u/Scoobydoomed Feb 03 '23
Definitely strings involved.