Topic: Ball in glass mystery

[Clive]

Help us figure out how a ball is magically plucked from a glass.

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[D-Dan]

Well, I watched it three times and he grabs behind the glass, but I'm still stumped 

[Simon]

Hmm...  I would say that the ball is actually on the outside of the glass, but it's a very clever illusion.

[Clive]

Well that's exactly what I thought too Simon.   

[davy51]

There was never a ball in the glass

Notice the red and green cube

It reflects into the glass and he has a red sponge ball in his hand at the end

Its the same type of ball used in slight of hand magic tricks

[Simon]

Not sure I buy that, Dave.  How does the red cube reflect into the glass, when the green one doesn't?

[Clive]

Davy might have something there.  Aren't red and green opposite colours?     Let's ask a physicist.  Sam...... 

[Simon]

 

[davy51]

The chemical compound the glass is made of could be blocking the green because the eye doesn't want to see it


Just a guess on my part

[D-Dan]

I don't buy it - you can't pluck a reflection from the glass. Granted, he may have a sponge ball hidden in his hand, but that doesn't explain how it vanished from the glass.

[Simon]

Good point, Steve! 

[davy51]

I don't buy it - you can't pluck a reflection from the glass. Granted, he may have a sponge ball hidden in his hand, but that doesn't explain how it vanished from the glass.

its slight of hand with optical illusion