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Empty Wine Bottle
Picture an empty, clear wine bottle with a cork secured at the top in the usual way. Inside the bottle a metal ring hangs suspended by a string. How is it possible to make the metal ring drop to the bottom of the bottle without touching the ring, the thread, the cork or the bottle?
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By using a magnifying glass and the sun's rays you could burn through the string and consequently cause the ring to drop to the bottom of the bottle.Hide Answer Show Answer
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Or you could just breaK the
Or you could just breaK the
nice teaser, easy, but i liked it!
Hmmm. I was thinking of putting it in a pressure chamber and then increasing the ambient pressure.
What about heat the bottle up, possibly pushing th cork out, or super cooling the bottle, causeing the cork to suck in.
By using a magnifying glass to concentrate a beam of light and then pass it thro another piece of glass wouldnt the second piece of glass defreact the light making it pointless especially with the curvature of the bottle????
that would be correct to a point at least addidasgirl. The bottle will change how the light is refracted and quite possibly even make it impossible. but seing as this is all hypothetical, with the right bottle it could be done.
I would say liquid nitrogen would either break the bottle or suck the cork in...
nice! and about the glass bottle disturbing the light beam, you can always adjust the magnifying glass to make the glass bottle useful in concentrating the beam.
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