“The Carbonaro Effect” is a hidden camera television show where a magician, Michel Carbonaro, tricks unsuspecting, ordinary people. All of his performances occur in ordinary locations such as in stores, offices, or schools, and the people Carbonaro tricks are not aware that he is a magician. Carbonaro’s physics, logic defying illusions, and suggestively believable backstories produce hilarious reactions from his gullible targets.Much of the entertainment of the show comes from the incredulous reactions of subjects as they stand there wide eyed and open mouthed, taking in the impossible scene they have just witnessed. It is shows like “The Carbonaro Effect” demonstrate how knowledge is subject to perspective.
As I watch the show, it is difficult to imagine how easily people fall for something so impossible. While it is easy for me to say that I would not fall for such illusion or be so naïve, the truth is that when the evidence is so clear it would be challenging not to believe it. Despite everything that school has taught me: …show more content…
“Everything I have been taught,” includes basic arithmetic’s to the entire English language. How could we have been taught how to tell time wrong, if the entire world does it the same way? How could we have been taught to tie our shoes the wrong way? But in a less literal sense of the question, the statement makes more sense. Surely that is how people felt when they began to accept the heliocentric theory. Surely that is how Newton felt when he figured out that gravity is the force that draws objects and explained why things fall down, planets orbit around the Sun. And surely that is how the world will feel, if there scientific evidence proves that humans evolved from monkeys. Sometimes new scientific theories seem foolish until they get proven and