Have a look at this vid....

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AtUlIGK_kl0&feature=related

didn't know it was the 1st already!

can't see it

the first of April must get my thinking cap on

Note the way his free hand disappears off under the table as the second candle is lit and when the candles are blown out.

Im amazed how easily the nails are magnetised. Is it just me or does the bulb light up almost before the wick has lit properly?

Maybe they are onion candles.

I'm going to have to call bullshit on this one

its good sleight of hand how he fiddles the wires at the beginning, unless during a cut he connected the nails through the bottom of the candle to a battery.

The simplest way to prove that this is nonsense, is, how would one candle decide it was the negative and the other the positive? There is nothing to differentiate between them.

You will note that the leads go out of shot.
Two to the candles and another two from the bulb to the switched power source.
Good psuedo science blag though.

you'd have thought he would try & make it believable, by gradually making the light brighter ,perhaps with a capacitor.
As it is, you can see its just a switch being thrown!

Yeah - amateaur! Should have used a foot switch or something so it wasn't obvious his hands were flicking a switch. I thought the cables off the side of the table thing was obvious until he brought them onto the table at the end - nice flourish to prove the viewer's 'i know how he does it' wrong. I guess by that 'scene' he must have had longer nails all the way through the candle and connected out of sight at the rear of the candles or something - the viewer just recalls from the first 'scene' that the nails dont go all the way through the candle and there's no connection through the table.

Liam

[Edited on 27/3/08 by Liam]

http://www.overunity.com/index.php?topic=4356.msg85201;topicseen

http://www.practicalphysics.org/go/Experiment_289.html

not that I'm suggesting it's anything but a fake, just reminded me of an experiment

[Edited on 27/3/08 by Mr Whippy]