Demonstration of telekinetic fork-bending?

Why forks and spoons? It's always spoons and forks, and hands on them where they can fatigue the metal in front of our very eyes, and then just twist the thing before our very eyes. Never do we see anything bend without hands bending it.

Lay a piece of straw on a table with no draft, and move it a millimeter. That's all it would take. Or, if you want to silence skepticism forever, take a light bulb and use your mind to break the filament inside. Both those things take much less effort than bending a spoon and should be a piece of cake.

Do either of those things with no visible trickery twice in a row and it's game over, and you won't even have to pad out your youtube video with an hour of spiritualist ********.
 
I love Penn and Teller's youtube video where all kinds of impossible things are happening while the camera is in close up...

... followed by the same 'illusions' in wide shot so that the audience can see all the activity 'out of shot' making it all happen.
 
novaphile said:
I love Penn and Teller's youtube video where all kinds of impossible things are happening while the camera is in close up...

... followed by the same 'illusions' in wide shot so that the audience can see all the activity 'out of shot' making it all happen.
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One of the most obvious things in the video referenced is that much of the time the demonstrator's hands and fork are outside the picture.
 
When my daughter was a high-school student, her chemistry teacher did a class demonstration where he bent a spoon that he held between his thumb an forefinger. He then asked the class to explain how he was able to do this, and he only gave them one clue.

"The trick will work better in summer than in winter"

Of course, he had made the spoon out of gallium, and kept it in the lab fridge until he was ready.
 
To quote Randi:

“Uri Geller may have psychic powers by means of which he can bend spoons; if so, he appears to be doing it the hard way.”
 
I saw a couple of times where the guy flexed his hands while holding the fork, then straightened them again. Then he waved them around while holding the fork where it would bend...like he was holding two pieces end-to-end. ;) Classic Geller stuff.
 
Towards the end, when the left window is garnering most of the attention, the guy on the right is obviously bending tines and then the entire fork handle. The "tada" presentation that follows is bloody stupid.
 
alfaniner said:
Without even opening the thread, "NO".
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There's no need really. I must confess that I jumped forward pretty abruptly, but the part where the fork (the carelessness of calling it spoon bending and then bending a fork seems characteristic) gets bent is beyond silly. He doesn't look as if he's even trying to hide it.

I know it's kind of like doing a food review and saying the **** sandwich wasn't up to the usual standards, but if you wondered if it's possible for one spoon bending video to be worse than others, wonder no more.
 
bruto said:
There's no need really. I must confess that I jumped forward pretty abruptly, but the part where the fork (the carelessness of calling it spoon bending and then bending a fork seems characteristic) gets bent is beyond silly. He doesn't look as if he's even trying to hide it.

I know it's kind of like doing a food review and saying the **** sandwich wasn't up to the usual standards, but if you wondered if it's possible for one spoon bending video to be worse than others, wonder no more.
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Obviously not a graduate of The Uri Geller Institute of Advanced Spoon Bending then...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxQXWtxbfek
 
bruto said:
Why forks and spoons? It's always spoons and forks, and hands on them where they can fatigue the metal in front of our very eyes, and then just twist the thing before our very eyes. Never do we see anything bend without hands bending it.

Lay a piece of straw on a table with no draft, and move it a millimeter. That's all it would take. Or, if you want to silence skepticism forever, take a light bulb and use your mind to break the filament inside. Both those things take much less effort than bending a spoon and should be a piece of cake.

Do either of those things with no visible trickery twice in a row and it's game over, and you won't even have to pad out your youtube video with an hour of spiritualist ********.
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And think of how precisely we can weigh things, an extremely sensitive scale with a sliver of metal in a sealed vacuum box, if you could move it and cause any kind of fluctuation on the scales it would be a breakthrough.

Yet time and time again all we see is magicians' tricks being passed off as paranormal powers.
 
bruto said:
Why forks and spoons? It's always spoons and forks, and hands on them where they can fatigue the metal in front of our very eyes, and then just twist the thing before our very eyes. Never do we see anything bend without hands bending it.

Lay a piece of straw on a table with no draft, and move it a millimeter. That's all it would take. Or, if you want to silence skepticism forever, take a light bulb and use your mind to break the filament inside. Both those things take much less effort than bending a spoon and should be a piece of cake.

Do either of those things with no visible trickery twice in a row and it's game over, and you won't even have to pad out your youtube video with an hour of spiritualist ********.
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Weight, balance, vacuum chamber.

Oops, Darat beat me to it.
 
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Not quite the same, but using the same techniques, Professor Denzil Dexter from the University of Southern California demonstrated how to pass his hand through a sheet of glass.
It's very convincing.

 
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