Richard Wiseman, otherwise known as Quirkology, is back to boggle our minds once again. This time with a candle whose flame appears to float across the room.
Please do yourself a favor and watch the whole video before reading on any further. It is, after all, only just over one minute long, and I don’t want to spoil it for you.
All done? Good. Now we can talk about how this trick was achieved. It’s not magic, because magic doesn’t exist. But it does involve a ninja.
A ninja, also known as a person wearing a dark suit. But the true star of the show is the piece of perspex that prevents us, the audience, from seeing what’s actually happening.