KUMAR is LURKING!
This thread got moved to here for reasons I do not understand and cannot repeat.
KUMAR:
This thread has been moved body and soul from “conjuring†to here. Wherever “here†is, I don't know. I want proof that I’m here.
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us and you still don’t get it, it seemed good to me also to write unto thee MOST EXCELLENT KUMAR.
In the last post, in the "conjuring " group which has disappeared, I covered a great deal of theoretical ground and others have expanded upon it and explained it more fully than the space allotted to me by the moderator allowed. Perhaps then we can move on to some practical magic items that might be of use to the modern conjurer or magician (or Penn or Gillette or Teller. Speaking of Teller, he has this great effect in which using only Plutonium, Deuterium and Tritium plus some lying-about-the-house items, he causes an ENTIRE CITY to disappear. Way Cooool but irreversable).
You remember the 'Kelvinator', the absolute zero refrigerator. Well, let’s go back to that, remembering that we can never get there only approach arbitrarily close, OK? Well, we’re gonna put wheels on that sucker. When we do that, we can move the Kelvinator about from city to city, that is to say, we can TOUR with it. We have a touring machine. If we paint the name “Archibald†on it we have a touring machine named Archibald or, since we’ve added wheels, an Archibald wheeler touring machine. Adding a “porta-potty†to the Kelvinator gets us a “John Archibald Wheeler Touring Machineâ€! This is the most massively useful object in the galaxy other than a towel.
The John Archibald Wheeler Touring Machine has a number of properties. For instance, if we’re touring with our magic show and want to go to Las Vegas from, say St. Louis, we can go by way of every possible route and, this is a kicker, UNOBSERVED, until we get to Vegas. This gives the word “promiscuity†an entirely new meaning as well as saving us thousands on airfare.
We know from school maths that for any number a, a-0 = a. Lets use this here.
Touring machine - 0 = Turing machine. This is the original mind-reading (since we started with a Kelvinator, it’s also a “cold†reading) machine. Ask it any question and it answers, making sure only to parse the question to make sure it’s “compatableâ€. If you tell the machine its own Goedel number first, it can change itself and decide if it’s compatable or not.
This is probably a good place to talk about the German Language. German is frequently used in science and magic (I’m thinking, “Abracadabra†here) because it has the ability to mush together two or more otherwise unrelated words (such as “truth†and “homeopathyâ€) and come up with an entirely new word that encompasses both! As you can imagine, this saves a lot of time. For instance, in English, that bit of land between Northern Germany (Friesland) and Scotland is the “North Sea Coast†while in German it’s “Nordseekuste†saving two words. Speaking of Friesland, combining “freeze†and “land†as it is damn cold there in winter, tschus y’all.
So, beginning with a simple refrigerator at absolute zero, we get free airfare, invisibility, mind reading and the German Language!
But Wait, There’s More!
This place:
http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/esp.html has the absolutely COOLEST mind reading game in town.
In the next installment, I'll cover illuminated manuscripts and the development of French culture.
IIR - I am really tired but now you know all my techniques for illusions. SOB.
