Stepping into the Fourth Dimension
Imagine going to a magic show, where the world’s top ranked magicians gather to
dazzle their wide-eyed crowd. Some would walk through jet turbines, others would
decapitate their assistants only to fuse them back together, and others would transform
pearls into tigers. However, with each of these seemingly impossible stunts, there is
always a catch. A curtain will fall momentarily; a door will shut; the lights will go out; a
large cloud of smoke will fill the room, or a screen will hide what is truly going on. Then,
a very different magician comes on, and performs stunts like entering a closed box without
opening any doors, and placing a mouse in a sealed bottle without removing the cork.
These do not seem very extravagant compared to the amazing feats other magicians pull
off, but what leaves the crowd completely baffled is the fact that he does these tricks
without placing a handkerchief over his hand, or doing it so fast the crowd misses what is
going on. To perform the mouse-in-the-bottle trick, he shows the mouse in his hand,
slowly twists it in a strange manner, and right before your eyes, his hand completely
disappears! A few instants later his hand reappears inside the bottle, holding the mouse.
There seem to be two parts of his arm; one in the bottle, and one out. His arm looks
severed, yet he has complete control of his fingers inside the bottle. The hand lets go of
the mouse, and again vanishes from inside the bottle, and reconstitutes itself on the
magicians arm. He pulled it off candidly, without the smoke and mirrors. Everything that
was seen actually happened. This magician, breaking the tradition of fooling the audience
with illusions, used cutting edge knowledge of higher-dimensional science to perform this
marvel. He sent his arm outside of 3-D space, twisted it in the fourth dimension, and
placed it back into the bottle. The fourth dimension is not time, but an extra direction, just
like left, right, up, down, forward, and backwards. This magician has used the fourth
dimension for entertainment purposes. However, the fourth dimension has other, more
practical uses and applications in the realm of mathematics, geometry, as well as
astrophysics, and holds the explanation to such natural phenomena as gravity and
electromagnetism.
To this day, many scientists and other people accept time as being the fourth
dimension. This notion is completely absurd. Time does play an important role in the
description of an object, but it is incorrect to perceive it as a dimension.
In this scene bradbury uses most of the craft moves listed. He also does a great job doing it too.
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Out of This World is an outstanding card effect that many magicians have improved upon and performed with their own unique twist, including me. Out of this world has been billed as “The Greatest Card Trick of The Last Century,” and also “The Trick That Fooled Winston Churchill.” According to Curry a magician by the name of Harry Green performed Out of This World for Churchill, the effect fooled Churchill so he demanded it be shown to him again. Harry Green did so, he performed it six more times for Churchill and left him completely baffled every time. The method is simple yet deceptive, and it is truly a classic of card magic. So now with much excitement, I present to you my re-telling of Paul Curry’s Out of This
Examples of this include the Jim Rose Circus Sideshows. The Jim Rose Sideshows involved daring stunts that commends freakishness for being fascinating and unique. Contemporary forms of freak discourse also include various forms of popular culture, such as the television shows on The Learning Channel and shows focusing on body modifications and
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seven different shaped bottles and a riddle on a table. They had to find the bottle and
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The “Weapon of Choice” video begins with a normal middle-aged man, Walken, sitting in a hotel lobby. Once the music fades in, the scene comes to life with motion. From then on all rules of expectation are broken. As Michael Abernethy notes, “It is a fantasy many of us have had, to dance abandon in an environment that screams for civilized behavior”(1). This scene, although not impossible in our everyday lives, is very rare. Once Walken takes his hoofing steps right on out to the balcony and into mid-air this is when the camera begins to works its magic. The camera enables the character to bound across the screen and back again, which gives Walken an unexpected power. The simple concept of fantastically and unexpectedly losing control in a civilized environment is shown in a complex and artistic manner.
Curry, Neil. "Stan Lee's Universe." CNN. Cable News Network, 01 Jan. 1970. Web. 30 Mar. 2014.
The first idea presented in the story is that of a fourth dimension. I wasn’t exactly sure what the fourth dimension was because it is not something that is dealt with a whole lot in every day living. The story begins with the time traveler sitting in a room with some guests. We never learn what the time traveler’s name is, he is simply referred to as the time traveler in the story. I thought the explanation of the fourth dimension that the time traveler gave to his guests was easy to understand and very interesting. The time traveler explains, “ ‘You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.’
When witnessing the tricks of magicians, most people say, "Wow, that was amazing." The thought, question or statement that comes next is what I perceive makes the universe like a magic trick.
...ill look in amazement at their card, at the magician, at the deck, and back at their card, while their jaw is hanging open. The magic trick is then complete.