(3)A magical search for a coincidence.

     

Helder Guimaraes is a magician. In the ted talks he makes a show explaining by “magic” the world of coincidences. His actuation splits in three parts:

The fist trick consist in transform that card in the public choice one;  the second trick  he left over a chair a notebook and  cards, he ask to the public to say color, symbol, number of card an also another number. The magician then goes throw the chair and takes the cards and by the last number the public said finds a notebooks piece of paper, ten he gets the notebook an finds the card in a broken page; On his last trick he ask somebody for a dollar then ask that person to take a billet and turn it over and over so the serial number isn’t visible, then ask five people to reorganize the cards, he takes them and throw almost all to the floor the cards in his hand are exactly the same 5 last serial numbers.

Under the tricks we have a specific speech, the magician at the start  says that 90% is crap but, also if we think we think (he said) we can find a coincidence. In my opinion what he means is the next think. if you look the last trick with the bill and don’t think it’s quite amazing, soon I realized ¿why the latest five numbers? So after a quick lock in internet I discover that that five last numbers are the database (where it have been made, the reserve where it pertains, etc) I think the magician prepare the trick to get these numbers but, (here the big deduction) knowing how quickly does the money change is pretty amazing that that bill have that serial number. I think that’s the message of the magician “amazing consequences are everywhere”.

https://www.ted.com/talks/helder_guimaraes_a_magical_search_for_a_coincidence

(Text#3 over 5) David Miranda 

  27/3/2015