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From: john@anasazi.UUCP (John Moore)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Electric Brae
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Date: Sat, 22-Feb-86 10:23:08 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 22 10:23:08 1986
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In article <933@nmtvax.UUCP> shipman@nmtvax.UUCP (John Shipman) writes:
>>    "My cousins took me to see this neat thing called the 'Electric Brae'.
>>     Have you ever heard of it?  A brae is a hill, and this one has a 
>>     peculiar property: it defies gravity!  We got over the crest of the
>Sue Stratton's story about the "Electric Brae" sounds like a tourist
>trap called the "Mystery Spot" in the southwest--I can't remember where,
>somewhere on I-10 or I-40 in Arizona or New Mexico?  The illusion
>of the "Mystery Spot" is that gravity seems to be off vertical;
>water runs uphill, you have to stand off plumb, and so forth.
>
I remember visiting such a spot as a kid on a family vacation. I don't
remember for sure where it was (Black Hills? New Mexico? I lived in
Albuquerque).
	Anyhow, it was all done by visual illusions. In addition to
the "wrong" gravity, they also had rooms where you could walk from
one end to another and apparently change size - a classic visual
illusion.
-- 
John Moore (NJ7E/XE1HDO)
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