Conman, quantum entaglement and no cat

[Sandy Sandfort]

C'punks,

As it happens, I sent Penn an e-mail asking him about Copperfield's trick.
I didn't ask HOW it was done (that's considered bad form), but if he had a
good idea how it was done or could have been done.  Haven't heard from him
yet, but I'll report his answer when I get it.


 S a n d y

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cypherpunks at lne.com [mailto:owner-cypherpunks at lne.com]On
> Behalf Of Bill Stewart
> Sent: 22 October, 2001 19:05
> To: cypherpunks at lne.com
> Subject: Re: Conman, quantum entaglement and no cat
>
>
> At 04:16 PM 10/22/2001 -0700, Eric Cordian wrote:
> >Anonymous forwarded:
> >
> > > "It wasn't a trick," Copperfield told Bild am Sonntag newspaper after
> > > the performance on the popular Wanna Bet? show on ZDF television. "It
> > > was more an experiment and mental exercise. We only use about 10 per
> > > cent of our brain capacity."
> >...
> >How gullible can people be?  The only magical art Copperfield
> has mastered
> >is the building of overengineered stage props.
> >
> >Randi would blow this away in 10 seconds.  Better they had buried
> >Copperfield's box in a Faraday Cage under 10 feet of wet cement, and had
> >the armed guards watch that.
>
>
> Now, if Penn and Teller had done the same thing, they'd say
> "Of course it's a trick!  We fooled you guys,
> and you couldn't catch how we did it!
> People only use 10% of our brain capacity,
> but we're using 15% of ours and you're using 5% of yours,
> so tricking you is *easy*!  And we can do it again,
> with Teller hanging upside down in a straightjacket
> over a bed of nails!"
>
> Occasionally you can see how they do their tricks,
> usually in the "Mofo the Psychic Gorilla" schtick,
> but that's because while you're catching them doing one trick,
> they're actually setting up another one.  Mofo knows.....
>
> BTW, Penn did a nice anti-Clipper rant in his computer column
> about N years ago.