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Originally Posted by Susanpsychic  Heck, I am getting the 1 million question at least every other day on youtube for only bending a spoon! |
the one where the video stops working? then there's a jump cut?
Stage magic trick
Other people, including many scientists and professional stage magicians believe that spoon-bending demonstrations are nothing more than stage magic tricks.[2]
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In most cases, the trick could be accomplished simply by misdirection, a basic tool of the stage magician. Namely, the performer draws the audience's attention away from the spoon during the brief moment while he is actually bending it with his hands. The typical bend, where the bowl meets the handle, requires relatively little force. Another possible method is to use a metal spoon that has been previously doctored so that a simple flick will cause it to bend. This can be done, for instance, by repeatedly bending the spoon at the desired spot, until the metal cracks and weakens. One other method is to grip together two halves of an already-broken spoon, and then slowly relax the grip - giving the impression the spoon is bending in the middle before finally splitting into two halves
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