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Science and engineering represent great opportunities for magic. In this book you will find some amazing and easy-to-do magic tricks based on secret chemistry, physics, engineering and maths, so you can entertain your friends and explore some clever science and engineering too. I’ve been a keen magician and collector of magic props all my life. The wonders of science and magic have inspired me throughout my career, from the mythological computer worlds I created in my Ultima video game series, to performing the first full magic show in microgravity when I visited the International Space Station in 2008. Peter, Matt and I all share the vision that science and engineering are amazing and can lead to astonishing careers, but we also love to present entertaining magic too. It’s never better than when you can turn your audience into scientists for a moment. In that flash of pure astonishment they ask themselves, how can that happen?. We hope you learn from and have fun with this book. Just remember to keep the secrets and enjoy the science! magician, video games pioneer and space explorer refraction” and means that none of the You place a coin on the table right in When light passes through different light from the coin escapes from the front of your friends. Then, while they substances it can be bent around. This is sides of the glass. The coin is there, but continue to stare right at it, the coin because light travels at slightly different light from it can’t get out of the glass! disappears from sight! speeds in different substances. The coin under the glass will actually look a bit distorted because the light is refracted The light from the coin does ev