How to Bend a Spoon with Your Mind
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- Опубліковано 4 січ 2009
- If you want to know how to bend a spoon (and a fork and a steel bar) with just your mind, check this out. Of course, there are many ways to bend a spoon, and for some strange reason they all require touching the spoon at some point, so that's one clue to how psychics do the trick.
#skeptic
#michaelshermer - Наука та технологія
ah, i think you misunderstood me, I wanted to know how to bend a spoon with my mind.
That is how; his mind moved his hands to manipulate the spoons.
Now you can realise the truth. There is no spoon.
Never seen the matrix?
Good man. You can't not like the matrix.
lol
Loll
;-;
There is no spoon.
***** How Could The Spoon Be Real When Life Isn't Real?
***** How can youtube be real when spoons arent real?
***** Jaden, is that you?
+healer56heal How can anything be real iff everything is fake?
TestTest robots.txt There is no real.
Some of you trying to debunk this video-what are you debunking? The whole point of this is to show how easy it is to fool people into believing that the bending is a mental/natural phenomenon when actually it is either easily done right before you or manipulated beforehand. You're also not taking into consideration that this is done before a camera in relatively closeup mode, hence the reason you can see intricacies such as ever-so-slight pre-bent metals and very slight hand movements. Imagine if you're sitting in a somewhat moderate - large theater with either a proscenium or thrust setup (where alot of major magicians perform) and watching this several feet ahead of (and possibly raised a bit above) you. There could be several feet between the edge of the stage and those first row of audience. The performer knows damn good and well there is no possible way to see those slight manipulations and relies on that heavily. There's people that insist on only playing certain types of theaters for this reason. Basically-you're all arguing the same point this man is making. Of course it's fake. That's the f'king point of this-to show how it's faked.
pre-bent metals rock! I agree with everything.. keep up the good work!
" fool people into believing that the bending is a mental/natural phenomenon when actually it is either easily done right before you or manipulated beforehand."
You made an "it's not X, but X" error in logic. The point he makes is that people get fooled into believing bending spoons with one's mind is a supernatural phenonmenon, NOT a natural phenomenon. And, yes, obviously, it IS a mental process, as he needs to THINK about all the secret steps he takes to creating the illusion of bending spoons with one's mind.
Nobody actually read that
OMG, not only is he bending that steel bar with his magic atom warming finger but he also defies gravity as the steel bar bends upward! Mind blowing!
The important lesson here is that even when you don't know how the trick is done, if they are claiming psychic powers, you can be sure it is a trick.
The 1st spoon: He bends it in his hand and then just rotates it while he rubs it so that it looks like it bends
The fork: It was already bent, he was just shaking it so much it was very hard to see.
The steel bar: It was already bent, he just turned it around so it looked straight, then he slowly rotated it.
The 2nd spoon: Was already weakened before he started, so it was no problem to bend it like that and even break it.
P.S. It's all simple, just think outside the box.
For the Non-believers:
Of course there's ways to fool an audience, especially on video. My personal experience has me convinced that this is truly possible, however. I was at college, and there was a faculty member there whose whole job was to keep the campus fun and entertaining between classes. Her title was "fun coordinator." She booked a guy, forget his name, who coached John Travolta on how to act/portray his gifts in the movie Phenomenon. He did a 45 minute show for us, showing off his psychic gifts, in the commons. I was still a skeptic, so right after the show I went to the cafeteria and asked the lunch ladies if I can borrow a spoon. One of them gave me a real thick spoon that I tried bending with two hands to test how bendable it was. I couldn't budge it. Not a weakling either. I went up to him and asked if he can bend the spoon for me. He said, " I'm sure you noticed me sitting in that chair before the show." I said yeah. " Well, I was gathering energy to put on this show (via meditation). Normally I'd be able to just wiggle the spoon and it'd bend. But my energy is a little depleted from the show. Do you mind if I touch the spoon to bend it?" I said sure. He held the tip of the handle with two fingers and with his other hand gently stroked the neck of the spoon with his index finger. (not how it was demonstrated in this video) It just curled and folded in on itself in seconds. From that day, I've been a believer. Sure there are 99 charlatans out of a 100 who claim to do this. But I'm sure there are people with gifts, either born with or vigorously trained with some luck tossed in.
or you slowly twist your rist and the bar is alredy bent!!
It pretty funny how he showing us how to bend the fork and I could already see the fork bend before hand. :P
Love you Mike! Cycling legend and skeptic, awesome.
I like how you did the last one. it's pre-bent and you're just twisting it. Nice.
I'm still amazed by the percentage of the people who can't recognize sarcasm even if their life depends on it. Michael Shermer is, in my opinion, the best science teacher in the world - because he inspires people to think rationally and to suspect in everything!
I've been a student of magic for 50 years trained by Micky Hades, and have tested Uri Geller myself both metal bending and remote viewing. If he's a magician I'm Sparky the Fire Dog!
@@brentireland9866 Do you know the greatest trick in the world? The one where the world was fooled by Copernicus!
PFFAHAHAHAHAHAH
Thank you so much for this Michael. As a man I owe you one fir this. We have located a fake spoon bender. He tries to tell people that he's some kind of ninja. It's adorable now to know that this dude is only a cheap trick away from being busted. Thanks again. I get to put this to sleep for ever.
How to REALLY bend a spoon using your mind
1) go into a dark quiet room, close all windows, shut the doors.
2) take your spoon and rub it with your two fingers back and forth.
3) There most important part: While rubbing the spoon back and forth with your two fingers, SHUT OF ALL THOUGHTS IN YOUR MIND, Just Feel the feeling of the spoon. while your rubbing it.
This actually works, I did it 5 years ago and it scared the shit out of me. I never did it again. Definitely something metaphysical.
Shermer isn't a bad metal bender. He may not a professional level like banachek. But he's clearly practiced this for many hours. Well done.
Great video. I can't wait to see more. I liked it when you said "that Israeli spoon bender" instead of his actual name.
"Do not try to bend the spoon, that's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth... there is no spoon."
Matrix reference
If there is no spoon, then nothing is there. what? I am confuse.
@@ehku9886 there is no spoon, it's all metallic compounds
As a kid, after I saw Uri Geller on the TV in the 70s, I figured out how to do it myself. One thing I learned early about tricks is if there are only a couple ways to do it, that's probably what's going on. Knowing how illusions work only enhances my amazement! Did anyone see the ridiculous NYT piece on the Spoonbender?
Thanks for the info guys. I'm off to buy one.
the iron bar was all ready bent he is just hiding it, watch and see his thumb,all he does is rotate the rod up slowly. also you can see before he starts a mark or something in the middle where the bar is bent.
Illuminati confirmed.
The illuminati is the teaching of demonic power .with out the demonic you can not do it.samething for god with him not all things are pissible .powers/forces of light and dark
@@lightningmass3013 lol stupid
URI Geller can't be too happy with you lad. Great demo. Thanks for keeping it real Doc.
will it blend....
Michael Shermer is one of my favorite humans. A+, would watch again.
2009? I was expecting a rickroll.
thats 2007
@@chloemonsen356 you commented this when I was in school!
I have to agree. Presentation is pretty much everything with these effects, and like him or loathe him, Geller is and was a pretty good showman.
I never knew Michael Shermer had telekinetic powers.
He was just turning the rod
really purple is that code for something???? Pervert.
"An Honest Liar" brought me here.
Me too!
same
Me too but they never explained gow steve shaw was able to rotate the rotar in the glass
Not always, but most of the time. A how to video, shows you how to do something.
He is holding the bar at a perspective at which it looks like it is straight to the viewer, when in reality, the bar is bent toward him and while he is rubbing it and making you think about it bending or watching him rub it, he is turning the metal bar with his holding hand giving the illusion that it is bending upwards.
This is "memory metal". It looks tough and strong, but once u apply heat to it, it goes back to its original form.
The rod was already bent, but the camera was side on so it looks straight. He directed attention to the centre of the rod, which distracted us from him slowly rotating the already bent rod with his left hand. This makes it look like he is bending it.
BlueAgent He's not rotating the rod. Watch the fingers of his left hand throughout the entire sequence. They never move.
Edit: I stand corrected. The thumb moved just enough to produce a quarter-turn of the rod.
***** His thumb is rotating the rod, not his fingers of his left hand.
***** Above comment is correct. Take a look at the thumb at 3:00 and then again at 3:20
BlueAgent You're damn right. I noticed his thumb and index finger slightly rotating it.
I'm suing, these are forks 😭😭 I legit thought I was gonna have magical powers after this
so true, never thought of it that way
I want a library like that.
The bar was already bent - at the beginning he just rotated it to the angle where it seemed straight and slowly twisted it around.
TheToonimator no shit
I bet I can melt steel beams this way
Mind powers can't melt steel beams
+Munchbob we can melt it
+jonathan munoz whoa. chill there superman
Naw you need jet fuel
Johnny Z. Muñoz I did that to the twin towers.
Great; I'll show this off whenever the opportunity arises.
@ChristyNiNe Details, please :) Where can we read this research?
Haha, Shermer's good at this. He should do children's parties.
:D
that spoon fell off because it's made of Gallium which melts at the temperature of the hand
Nope. The whole spoon would completely melt if it were gallium
+Tony BearJug It doesn't heat up over 1 second.
IT melted where he put all the pressure of his fingers.
while holding it gently with his hand, he wasnt heating it up much, but right at the tip of the neck it bent.
or its a stage spoon, and its all made out of aluminum except the neck that he melted
There are a lot easier ways to bend spoons besides just making the neck out of gallium.
Tony BearJug enlighten us
Well, bending it a bunch before hand, chemicals, liquid metal (the magic trick. I don't own it so idk how it works). Also, using gallium wouldn't let it bend, it would melt and stain his hands gray, leaving liquid metal.
that metal bar at the end, you can see clearly how he turns it with his left fingers. Its already bent before he starts, but the turns it and it looks like its bending
@ChristyNiNe Interesting. What branch of physics is this? I would be interested in learning more, especially the maths that describes these lower fragmented dimensions and the unified frequency of truth.
Cheap tricks. It's all about angles and perspective. You rotated the already-bent steel rod. The fork to was already bent that's why you never held it still. You kept moving it so we wouldn't notice it. BUNK! But it's ok. I truly don't care have fun man!
Yeah you sound real fun
You are missing the point. They are skeptics. They don't believe in magic. They are showing people things that look magic and then telling them 'there is no such thing as magic, no matter how convincing it may appear.'
JW Money Yeah, I got that, not sure everyone did. What is funny though is that if you look on his shelf you can see the bent rod...
Tripledonkey excellent catch. I saw it after you had mentioned it preciate that
You're absolutely correct, plus you gotta remember he was showing it to us at a highly specific viewpoint and was very up close to the camera as well, but I sure do love the amazing Randi, definitely one of my top three favorite magicians along with Blackstone and of course P&T as far as straight up who can pull more tricks outta their sleeves though, the amazing Randi has them beat hands down.
OH MY GOD where can I get an amazing Randi doll 8O
you guys are amazing I wish I could that
I wish he explained how he did it a little more. These would be some pretty fun party tricks.
2:48 its is a bad trick im i the only one who sees it? he is spinning the thing the lenght doesnt change no problem :)
OMG no way!!1😱 yes! You must be the only one☝️.You are so unique, special and smart because of it. I wish I was this clever..
For a how to video it sucks. More like a here's what it looks like vIdeo. Thanks for nothing.
One way would be to use nitinol instead of steel, but he bent the rod then rotated it so you can see the bend. He stroked the middle so that your eyes didn't focus on the other hand doing the rotating.
this guy is such a smart ass and I love it!
I know the title isn't misleading because it doesn't say "with just his mind" but that is what I thought he was going to do: bends spoons with just his mind.
Eh...title is misleading.
WhiteEmerald1991 the title already assumes that you're in on the gag--you can't bend a spoon with your mind, it's just an old fraudulent phenomenon from the seventies.
briar patch well no. Not everybody is on the gag. Some people like me actually believes in this.
WhiteEmerald1991 okay, you didn't get the reference. no worries.
briar patch there is no refrence. He false advertised with the title.
WhiteEmerald1991 okay, you're still not understanding me. Or maybe you need to look up the word "reference" in the dictionary. MANY people were around for or remember the big hoax in the seventies about spoon bending. That is why the title makes people smile, because THEY KNOW WHAT HE IS DOING, making a joke, a reference to that funny hoax in the seventies. what don't you understand? If there was a Harry Potter reference or Lord of the Rings reference, you'd probably get it. The title is a REFERENCE to a fad from decades past. Just because YOU don't understand it, doesn't make it misleading.
Good job wasting my time.
The rod was already pre-bent, if you watch his right hand, he is just rotating the bar so that it appears to bend upwards, when really he is just changing the perspective that we are viewing the bar at.
Such amazing psychic powers, not only did the bar start to bend but the reverse gravity phenomenon started raising his thumb at the same time the bar was bending. That's how you know it's legit.
Yeah it almost looks like he's slowing turning it with his hand as he's "Bending" it Wich means it was likely Prepped.
Good but you still wasted 3 minutes and 28 seconds of my life.
+John Call so did you 😒
+Scary Horror Are you mad because he didn't actually teach you how? He shows you how to bend the spoon and the fork actually. He doesn't explain it well but he briefly explains the spoon. but if you watch carefully you can tell. As he picks the spoon up he picks it up by the handle and puts his thumb on the bowl and then you can see him very quickly push the bowl down. He doesn't stop moving the spoon though, so you can't tell it's fake. When he picks the fork up, he holds it above his head as if he's getting ready and then he bends the pointy thing on the end. Idk how he does the other 2, he didn't explain it.
thanks for explaining that, I was about to rant about how if he had weakened it, why the heck would it bend up against the force of gravity
Warming the adams up does work.
Very nice
Thanks
Do you have an explanation for what Lior Suchard does...?
I like how you use ratcheting and misdirection to move the objects, but that's going to require a proper audience angle.
On the bar watch the left thumb as it heats up . The left thumb rotates the bent part .
Guys the metal is already bent he's just making an ilussion. He is showing the metal in a way that it looks like it straight but slowly while saying bend and rubbing the metal to make you focus on other places his left hand which is slowly turning it until it shows clearly that it is bent:D
This is wonderful
My mind is such an epic construction of implausible awesomeness that it is incapable of being bent by anything, regardless of how formidable this "spoon" you speak of may be.
for the entire video you can see the steel bar bent while it's sitting on the shelf
Needs more one how to do the trick. This would be fun at parties.
Dude, this guy is one of the most well known skeptics in the world. He debunks everything from this to UFO's. He's basically telling you it's fake, and how to do it.
So how did he do it?
How was the steel bar done? did he just rotate a bent one?
@manasdf12 If you look very carefully at the bar, to the right at the beginning you can see a little mark, by the time that it "bends" it is gone. If you just watch the mark you can see it slowly moving downwards. This in short means you are right
It's a pre cut spoon ..has a little slice in the back , and he just work hardens it until it breaks
There is a little mark on the bar at the end and as he continues to do the trick it moves. Showing that he is just turning the bar.
I am just as ardent a skeptic as anyone I know, but who doesn't enjoy a nice magic trick at parties?! You don't have to believe that it's supernatural to enjoy magic. "Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" ~ Douglas Adams
I did the trick and it does work! I used an old spoon and its awesome thing to do in a restaurant.
BTW the servers don't like it when you do it.
pretty sure that last steel rod, was already bent but cause of the way we were looking at it, it looked straight. at which point he slowly turned it.
how do you do the broken spoon trick??
the bending parts of spoon is made of gallium a metal which melts at room temperature so when he rubs or shake the spoon its starts melting and the spoon bends .
HOW do you make the spoon melt and fall apart??
Look up "wood's metal" or the properties of indium or look up "low melt metals"... pretty amazing stuff. It's pretty cool to be able to melt metal in boiling water. This guy needs to touch the spoon to heat it up and soften the material. He may call it steel but it is far from steel. It is a custom made prop.
All spoon benders had to touch the spoon but not a single one did it without touching it.
The friction is the one who makes the bending of a iron object reality.
the ad before this Michael Shermer video was for phenotracker. There's target marketing for ya.
He rolls the metal bar between his thumb and his index finger , so that you start by looking at it from an orientation that makes it seemingly straight ..but as it rolls it looks like it bends
You can see the metal rod is bent on the bookshelf beforehand...
Simon Simm yup, and then he just rotates the rod by slowly twisting his fingers to reveal an already bent rod.
Last one you can see clearly see the bar was already bent and he was twisting it around... as you can see beside his hand there is black stuff on the pole, that gives it away..
and I also can see how your left hand rotated the metal bar ;)
the bar already bended.
I have a question about a trick I've seen which i assume would be very hard to perform. This person I know will take ANY, ANY fork at all that you give him and instantly twist the pointers, prongs, tines, the triden things lol, without fail or a brand new spoon bent instantly that you can give to him right in front your eyes!
The steel bar was already bent towards him, he just twisted the bar with his left hand to expose the bend
I can explain it for him. Watch the end one with that steel bar. watch his left thumb and finger, all his tools were already messed with and with the steel bar, he just twists his thumb and finger to change the view. btw, you're only seeing it in one direction, if from multiple directions, then its easily seen.
Yes that too and you can also see the Bar already bent while he is doing the other stuff, the bar in the background is already bend..haha
fork was pre bent. you cant really notice much because he comepletly hides it in the beginiging by covering it with his finger and by shaking it.
If you could bend a spoon could u bend a nail clipper?
In the last he already picked up a bend rod and hold it inward to him .....and slightly rotated it towards the camera so that we think its bending
All of these are Magnesium.. It has a melting point lower than body temperature. It is kind of like Mercury, but safe to play with. Check out Mg spoons.. They are for tricks just like that.
and I agree with chon about the steel rod it was already bent and he was rotating it.
And then you notice the metal bar was bent before he picked it up.
At the final steel bar all he is doing is rotating the bar until it looks like it bent
yep your right dude
As a big eater of homemade hummus, I would be more interested in psychic powers than actually prevent forks from bending.
twisted bar at end