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  2. Glossary of magic (illusion) - Wikipedia

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    Centre tear – a special way of tearing up paper billets used in mentalism. Change – changing one card (or object) for another. Charlier Cut – One handed flourish cut or pass. Classic force – a force performed by fanning the cards and timing the force card to land under their fingers. Classic palm – to palm with the centre of the hand.

  3. List of optical illusions - Wikipedia

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    Troxler's fading: When one fixates on a particular point for even a short period of time, an unchanging stimulus away from the fixation point will fade away and disappear. Vanishing puzzle: A vanishing puzzle is a mechanical optical illusion showing different numbers of a certain object when parts of the puzzle are moved around. [4]

  4. Noble Eightfold Path - Wikipedia

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    The difference is that the latter have a one-pointed object in focus with complete awareness directed to that object – the meal or the target, respectively. In contrast, right concentration meditative factor in Buddhism is a state of awareness without any object or subject, and ultimately unto no-thingness and emptiness, as articulated in ...

  5. Scientists Made a Quantum Object Called an Alice Ring ... - AOL

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    This decayed monopole opens a “vortex ring” that flips the magnetic charge of any other monopole passing through its center, creating an “anti-monopole.” Scientists Made a Quantum Object ...

  6. Luopan - Wikipedia

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    This luopan, also known as the jiang pan (after Jiang Da Hong) or the Yi Pan (because of the presence of Yijing hexagrams) [2] incorporates many formulas used in San Yuan (Three Cycles). It contains one 24-direction ring, known as the Earth Plate Correct Needle, the ring for the 64 hexagrams, and others. (The techniques grouped under the name ...

  7. Illusory motion - Wikipedia

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    Billboards and other electronic signs use apparent motion to simulate moving text by flashing lights on and off as if the text is moving.. The term illusory motion, or motion illusion or apparent motion, refers to any optical illusion in which a static image appears to be moving due to the cognitive effects of interacting color contrasts, object shapes, and position. [1]

  8. Sagnac effect - Wikipedia

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    In other words, when the interferometer is at rest with respect to a nonrotating frame, the light takes the same amount of time to traverse the ring in either direction. However, when the interferometer system is spun, one beam of light has a longer path to travel than the other in order to complete one circuit of the mechanical frame, and so ...

  9. Halo (religious iconography) - Wikipedia

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    The distinction between the alternative terms used in English for various types of halo is rather unclear. The oldest term in English is "glory", the only one available in the Middle Ages, but now largely obsolete. It came from the French gloire which has much the same range of meanings as "glory". "Gloriole" does not appear in this sense until ...