Science Projects And Inventions

You can amaze friends with this amusing illusion when you are a in a department store where there are square pillars with tall mirrors on all four sides.

You will have to be wearing a hat. Stand as shown in the illustration so that half your body projects from the side of the mirror. The reflection of this makes you appear normal. Your friends will be floored. You will seem to slowly lift both legs until you seem to be suspended in midair. At the same time you hat rises mysteriously several feet above your head!

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Actually what you do is raise you one visible leg, and with your hidden arm, doff your hat. Even adults will be taken aback by this classic mirror illusion.