What links Magic and Science? This video provides a taster of the different Illusioneering tricks in the series and Prof. Peter McOwan explains how Magic has always been entwined with Science and Technology

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What links Magic with Science? This cinematic introduction to the Scientific world of Magic explores the fundamental interweaving of the two disciplines

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A volunteer has two ropes tied around them. When the ropes are pulled tight they cut right through the volunteer, who then walks away unharmed!

The Baffling Knot Trick

You hold a large bike wheel up from both ends of its axle. Then you let go of one end and the wheel continues to be suspended in mid-air even though nothing is holding it up.

The Levitating Wheel Trick

A bottle containing a green liquid becomes different beverages as it poured from one container to another.

The Changing Beverage

A volunteer tries to put a piece of paper in half, only to discover that it's joined itself back into one piece!

Cutting in Half

You place a coin on the table right in front of your friends. Then, while they continue to stare right at it, the coin disappears from sight!

The Disappearing Coin Trick

You take a container of water and touch the surface of it. Just by the power of your touch, the water freezes solid!

The Instant Freezing Water Trick

An object - for example a bottle of pop or a human head - is placed in a box. Amazingly, it becomes transparent or sometimes even vanishes.

Pepper's Beverage - The Ghost Drink

Space tourist and video games guru Richard Garriott demonstrates the ferrofluid bowl he keeps at home, which turns an innocuous black liquid into a spiky mass.

Richard Garriott on Science and Magic

A flask of solution changes colour while producing copious quantities of fog.

The Smoking Flask Trick

A glass container filled with clear, colourless liquid is briefly covered and suddenly it has been swapped for a flask full of opaque dark-blue liquid! It can then be changed back without anyone noticing the swap.

The Transitioning Beaker Trick

A bowl full of water you are carrying vanishes in mid air.

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