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Topic: Science and Magic
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Welcome to the Science and Technology Ray, Science and Magic, where we shall be exploring the fascinating and ever-changing relationship between science and magic. At first sight, the two areas might appear to be diametrically opposed – the conjuror with his attempt to deceive the audience and the scientists to reveal a scientific truth, but science and magic both arose from human beings’ desire to make sense of an uncertain world and they have both been used by some people to gain power over others.
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Introduction
We shall be exploring the fascinating and ever-changing relationship between science and magic. At first sight, the two areas might appear to be diametrically opposed – the conjuror with his attempt…
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Chemistry and magic
Magicians like to find out a lot about science themselves and to use what they know to create illusions to amaze their audience. The science is normally held back from the audience. However, in our Ab…
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Physics and magic
In this session we look at magic tricks that rely on the science of physics (the study of how everything works). As you will see in our Starfish, demonstrations of the laws of physics still serve to …
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Maths and magic
Long ago in the days of Pythagoras (an ancient Greek mathematician), people believed that numbers had magical powers. Nowadays, the beautiful, predictable patterns that appear when particular numbers …
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Psychology and magic
In this session we learn about the intimate connections between psychology (the scientific study of the mind and behaviour) and magic. Long before the serious study of psychology began in Victorian ti…
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Magic and medicine
You might be surprised to find out that supernatural magic and medicine have a history together that goes back thousands of years. In ancient civilisations all over the world, individuals have convinc…
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The ‘Magic’ of nature
In this session, we find out about ‘magical phenomena' in nature – mysteries that are as yet unsolved or have only recently been understood.…
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