Ooh! Yeah. That's purdy. Did you see that magic trick for getting the pit out? Yeah. And because it's going to get blended up, I just squeeze it out of the avocado.
I used to love it. It was like a magic trick . I'd be sitting there thinking, OK, do I need to read now?
I think we all think we love it, because it's a magic trick . But the magic trick is like this hypnosis. That film achieves a hypnosis effect, which is not unrelated, in a way, to things we talked about with this film.
I see Kayla playing all the people she thinks she needs to be in every moment, which is just incredible. It's just a magic trick to me. I think it's just unbelievable.
I kept searching. And I never found a picture of my dad with Marlene Dietrich, but I did find this picture on an auction site of Orson Wells doing a magic trick for him. My father looks delighted, but if you follow his eyes, you can see he's looking off to the right.
and go crazy, and they want to be famous. with a magic trick , it's easy to assume that once you know the answer, you can stop thinking about it.
And so there's a lot of moving furniture that is choreographed there. And it's this magic trick that we never get tired of. It's immediately a bus, immediately an airplane, immediately a legion hall.
What other items do you-- what do you like? But watch this little magic trick .
trick moves. What can I do to these tiles? I can move them until suddenly they all line up again and I can put them down exactly where they were before. So, I like to describe symmetry as the magic trick move. If you close your eyes and I pick up these tiles and I move them around and put them back down again in a different way, you open your eyes and they don't look like they've moved so that is what symmetry is for Galois. Actually, it's interesting, because for mathematicians, symmetry is actually something with a lot of motion in it. It's
No, that's true. OK. It's a little bit like a magic trick . You have to set up the frame for it.
I mean, if I go to you, OK, look at my finger here-- I get it exactly right-- I could make that lemon disappear. But that'd be a pretty rubbish magic trick . Luckily, for the magician, we've got a lot of other techniques and loopholes that we can exploit.
It would then grow back, so you could do the trick over and over again for all your friends. But it was this really cool magic trick that you could hold in your hand and tell everyone about, which helped this thing grow and grow and grow, again, mobilizing that crowd.
The thing about magic tricks is that when they are bad, they are worse than just about anything, because it just looks like a trick. But when you take a magic trick and push it far enough towards excellence, there is this tipping point where it no longer looks like a trick, where it looks like an actual supernatural event.
We'll burn you because you did something that this god-- we know everything about this god, and he doesn't like it that you do this, so we burn you. And it's like a magic trick that when you come and talk about God-- so how do you know that God exists, and so forth? People would say, well, the Big Bang and human consciousness, and science can't explain this, and science can't explain that.
Watch it closely. Watch closely. I'm about to do a magic trick . There it goes, and you can see it start to toast.
Wait, I have props. I'm going to do a magic trick . Can I come from the-- oh, I can't come up!
What's clever is the magic trick that no one pulls on us.
If I'm doing a magic trick for you, and the solution to how it's done is beautiful, and the solution to how it's done is smart, and the solution
Um so that that was one magic trick . And if you read through the book at the end,
Also, magic trick shows are very popular on SBS. So I thought if we used Snake Magic, the word magic would be widespread.
So I actually thought it was some kind of magic trick that he was doing.
you're telling by a kind of stage magic trick .
like if you've ever seen how a magic trick is done you're like oh that's it you know it kind of lets you down a
That's the most important job in developing a magic trick .
The one on the right, yeah. Again, it's not really a proper magic trick .
The one on the right, yeah. Were you able to identify certain phenomena that you could then turn into a good magic trick ?
It would be like, get up and run as quickly as you can from this room. So the kids watching on the playground didn't know that they were seeing a magic trick . They didn't know that I was a magician.
of hone in on what we talked about I'm going to do a magic trick and I'm going
Now we magicians take advantage of the brain's lazy thinking because in a magic trick , nothing is ever as it seems.
but I want to explain this language that Galois developed to explore the symmetries of these two objects. So, two simple objects. I've got a six pointed star with a little twist on it and a triangle. So the magic trick moves, the symmetries, are the things that I can do to these objects which leaves them exactly where they were so first of all, I could rotate it by a sixth of a turn and it looks like it did before. Okay, I can rotate it by a third of a turn and it still looks like it did before I moved it, or I can rotate 180
Yeah. The trick is, though, what you do inadvertently, though, is make it endearing instead of irritating. That's-- that, for me, is the biggest magic trick , that all of this is so infectious.
But fair enough. But I think you think you love it. I think we all think we love it, because it's a magic trick . But the magic trick is like this hypnosis.
Now, do you remember the first time you saw a magic trick ? That may have been your uncle making a coin appear from behind your ears, or a silly trick, something like this.
The one on the right, yeah. And again, here, the magic trick is not quite as good as the actual explanation itself.
The one on the right, yeah. I mean, as I say, it's not a magic trick , because it's just using the principles.
OK, we're going to do a bit of a magic trick , but it's going to happen inside your head, OK?
And give them something to do that parallels what you're presenting about is often a really nice little magic trick to re-engage the brain again.
But the most amazing part of it was when suddenly Michael Jackson shows up and does a magic trick for every one and shows the world
In closing, the imagination has always seemed like a magic trick of matter which is probably why we've always blamed our best ideas on the muses.
think oh you know how was this even made you know the same way they look at magic trick and and you know I can break it
In 1924, two mathematicians, Stefan Banach and Alfred Tarski used it to show something that looks like a magic trick .
And the surprise that one gets when the song fits in a way that you wouldn't expect or how well we pull off this sort of magic trick of "Romeo and Juliet"
We've got sound-- again, sound will capture your attention-- movement, social cues puts together that will hopefully prevent you from seeing this drop. Now, I said that the gasp is really important, because what's interesting here is that it's not a real magic trick . We just use this to study misdirection.
The one on the right, yeah. So for example, the vanishing ball illusion-- I would never have thought of this as being a very effective magic trick .
The one on the right, yeah. Because what this really illustrates is that, even if you know something is false-- in the context of a magic trick , you
They're doing something much more nuanced than that and it's, to me, a magic trick .
I didn't become a magician because I wanted to be in entertainment or get on stage. It's like I discovered, at a really young age, that you can say something with a magic trick that's hard to say any other way. And I just wanted to chase that as far as I could.
Because you see in all of-- as a kid, I remember doing magic for my parents and the friends of my parents. And it became clear that there is this incredible weight that settles on people when you're an adult. And with a magic trick , you can make that go away for a second.
And that day when we went to Disneyland, my parents brought us in, and you would not believe the magic trick that they showed us.
And to create an analogy that might help you remember this, I'm going to do one last magic trick .