Close your eyes and imagine a sound, someone’s voice, coming from your left. It slowly shifts to come from behind you, then moves to your right. Around and around, it circles. Suddenly, the voice jumps. It was clearly in front of you but now it’s coming from somewhere else. How did it get there? Did it leap…magically?
That’s the premise of the winning magic trick, announced November 13, in a contest to craft a magical experience based solely on sound. The challenge, proposed by researchers in England a few months ago, is part of an effort to answer a simple question: Can magic tricks, which typically rely on a
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