Chemistry is not Magic!
Sunday, November 11th, 2007So I was watching this horrible magic trick contest show called Phenomenon, which is hosted by Chriss Angel (a fraud) and Uri Geller (a bigger fraud).
So this one guy was doing this trick where he had to pick out and drink a beaker of water from amongst what was supposedly a bunch of beakers of hydrochloric acid, but the whole thing fell apart when he had to prove that it was in fact hydrochloric acid in the beakers.
To prove it was hydrochloric acid, he threw what he told us was aluminium foil into the liquid which caused it to erupt in a glorious display of bubbles, steam and… flame? That didn’t seem right…
I don’t think it was aluminium foil or hydrochloric acid. More likely it was a metal like potassium or lithium and water. So all the beakers were safe! He could’ve drank any one of them and have been fine!
There was no bloody trick there at all! The jerk just lied to everyone and did a ninth grade science experiment.
Magic tricks should always have some slight of hand or a box with a clever trapdoor, not just lies.
And Chriss Angel had a picture of himself on his pants. What a douchebag!