Charpentier’s three deck illusion - International Edition

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Human: International Edition - This Model is designed for Euro 1 cent A participant is asked to lift all three decks and then the top deck alone. The participant will believe that the top box weighs more than all three boxes combined. What makes this work? Charpentier, a French physician, discovered this illusion over 100 years ago. The illusion happens when someone underestimates the weight of a larger object (Three decks) compared to a smaller object of the same mass (Top deck). The top deck is filled with 84 pennies and the bottom 2 decks are hollow. Most of the weight is located in the top deck. Your mind will trick you every time. This illusion is great for classroom activities, team-building events, and showing friends. Step-by-step instructions can be found at: https://youtu.be/JEecNP-kQVI More information on this topic is available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Size%E2%80%93weight_illusion The first demonstration of this online was: https://youtu.be/iItQVjrk00g A scientific white paper about this can be found at: http://psyc.queensu.ca/~flanagan/papers/FlaBel_NN_00.pdf To build this project, you will need: 3 x Charpentier Three Deck Illusion TOP 3 x Charpentier Three Deck Illusion BOTTOM 84 x Pennies A glue gun, ABS juice or super glue Do you like this design and want more great projects? Donate a dollar or two to help order future supplies - http://bit.ly/2kbP40C If you would like to mail something, it may show up in a future unboxing video (include note) Mark Fuller PMB 163 463 Pooler Parkway Pooler, GA 31322