Weird physical illusion makes you think objects are impossibly light

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By David Adam

End are attempting this at house. It’s an “very now not going” physical abilities a piece love an optical illusion.

Snatch three empty matchboxes and maintain one with one thing heavy. Now buy the weighted field by itself. Then achieve aside it down and next buy all three collectively. You received’t deem your brain. In tests by Isabel Obtained and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University within the US, 90 per cent of faculty students who tried it talked about that the individual weighted field felt heavier than the trio held collectively.

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