Suspicious-Teach8788
Lifer
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I just went there today for the first time since I was in 6th grade.
So basically what it is is supposedly some gravitational anomaly. Obviously, for those of us who have studied magnetism, diamagnets like ourself aren't really affected unless you're telling me they have tens of teslas of magnetic field surrounding the place in which case most of our electronic devices would probably blow up or whatever, and we would probably be exposed to major radiation.
How many people have been there? I just want an explanation of how certain parts work.
I can explain how the standing at impossible angles works. Basically the house is tilted, so obviously you have to stand angled relative to the earth, and so in the tilted house, it seems like you're leaning in a weird manner on a stair inside or whatever.
As for the ball rolling upward:
http://video.aol.com/video-det...mystery-spot/488569875
You can see that the ball doesn't fall straight down, and it falls at a non right angle relative to the platform it rolls on. That angle it falls down at is perpendicular to the ground, so obviously that means the platform is angled even though it appears to be slanted upwards. Optical illusion because the house itself is tilted, so your perspective is wrong.
Ok, I can explain those, but what about the level ground they have you stand on and when you switch sides the other guy seems taller? They place that leveler and ball to show that it doesn't roll but I do not really understand. I didn't have enough time to explore myself, but the last exhibit where there's a good 4 - 6 inch difference, they showed it to be level, but when I put my water bottle down, it rolled.
So is their leveler rigged or what? So how do they make people seem so much taller and then suddenly shorter? I guess part of it is perspective with the background, but then they make people stand shoulder by shoulder and then the height seems to change? Is this because the platform they stand on is actually tilted? But then how do you explain the use of the leveler? Rigged leveler? Or is it level but our eyes adjust to the tilted background? But in that case I can't explain how they have someone stand on my right and then switch to the left and our shoulders line up differently. The logical explanation is the tilt which my water bottle proved, but then can someone tell me how you rig a leveler? Haha.
I just went there today for the first time since I was in 6th grade.
So basically what it is is supposedly some gravitational anomaly. Obviously, for those of us who have studied magnetism, diamagnets like ourself aren't really affected unless you're telling me they have tens of teslas of magnetic field surrounding the place in which case most of our electronic devices would probably blow up or whatever, and we would probably be exposed to major radiation.
How many people have been there? I just want an explanation of how certain parts work.
I can explain how the standing at impossible angles works. Basically the house is tilted, so obviously you have to stand angled relative to the earth, and so in the tilted house, it seems like you're leaning in a weird manner on a stair inside or whatever.
As for the ball rolling upward:
http://video.aol.com/video-det...mystery-spot/488569875
You can see that the ball doesn't fall straight down, and it falls at a non right angle relative to the platform it rolls on. That angle it falls down at is perpendicular to the ground, so obviously that means the platform is angled even though it appears to be slanted upwards. Optical illusion because the house itself is tilted, so your perspective is wrong.
Ok, I can explain those, but what about the level ground they have you stand on and when you switch sides the other guy seems taller? They place that leveler and ball to show that it doesn't roll but I do not really understand. I didn't have enough time to explore myself, but the last exhibit where there's a good 4 - 6 inch difference, they showed it to be level, but when I put my water bottle down, it rolled.
So is their leveler rigged or what? So how do they make people seem so much taller and then suddenly shorter? I guess part of it is perspective with the background, but then they make people stand shoulder by shoulder and then the height seems to change? Is this because the platform they stand on is actually tilted? But then how do you explain the use of the leveler? Rigged leveler? Or is it level but our eyes adjust to the tilted background? But in that case I can't explain how they have someone stand on my right and then switch to the left and our shoulders line up differently. The logical explanation is the tilt which my water bottle proved, but then can someone tell me how you rig a leveler? Haha.
