{"id":13301,"date":"2013-03-11T03:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=13301"},"modified":"2013-03-11T03:00:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-11T08:00:14","slug":"the-vanishing-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13301","title":{"rendered":"The Vanishing Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/blogs\/nstv\/2013\/03\/vanishing-train.html\">Vanishing train defies space and time<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s a model train like no other: when it enters a tunnel, it seems to defy the properties of space and time. But of course, what you&#8217;re seeing is just an illusion. Do you know what the trick involves?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t <em>seem<\/em> like there&#8217;s enough space to have a curved and slanted track, but that may be because one thinks it needs to be carried out within a small space. The train takes almost as much time to emerge from the tunnel as to go around the track, so I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a perspective illusion of the tunnel being longer than it appears. My guess is that there&#8217;s a second track below the table. The train enters, veers right and down slightly and follows a large loop below the table, re-emerging inside the tunnel.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanishing train defies space and time It&#8217;s a model train like no other: when it enters a tunnel, it seems to defy the properties of space and time. But of course, what you&#8217;re seeing is just an illusion. Do you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13301\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illusions","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}