New Year (Science) Quiz

[Keith]

OK chaps, how's it done? What is the science?

Darned if I know (and I haven't Googled fo an answer)..

But I'll bet a Rivnut to a Dzus that y'all do...

candles3.flv video by hard11 - Photobucket

 

[Julian]

Nice if it worked, but it is completely fake and just another elaborate hoax by a guy with a camera and some slight of hand.

 

[Howard Jones]

12 volt candle..............right ?

 

[Doug S.]

12 volt candle..............right ?

Naah....two 6 volt candles.

 

[Keith]

Nice if it worked, but it is completely fake and just another elaborate hoax by a guy with a camera and some slight of hand.

So, Jules, in plain words you're saying exactly what?

This is a scientific and educational thread so please try and explain without all that techno mumbo jumbo....

:laugh:

 

[Paul Brameld]

OK chaps, how's it done? What is the science?

Darned if I know (and I haven't Googled fo an answer)..

But I'll bet a Rivnut to a Dzus that y'all do...

candles3.flv video by hard11 - Photobucket

Hi Keith,
Sorry to disappoint but it is a fake- watch his left hand , it always goes beneath the table to activate the switch! The nails probably connect to central conductor in the candle axis that connects to a metallised portion of the table. You never see the candle bases. The magnet is diversion.
Hope that helps.
Paul

 

[Richard]

I'd have used a foot switch...

 

[Terry Oxandale]

Transmission of power through the air! Amazing! Poor Tesla went to all that trouble when he could have used a couple of candles to pass current through thin air.