![]() As they walked toward the middle their heights adjusted to almost exactly the same height. I asked to have the two slowly walk towards each other to see what happened. Then he had them change sides, sure enough the shorter person grew by five inches. showed the top of the shorter person's head to fall on the gentleman opposite. I was asked to stand at the bottom of the T, and two people were placed at opposite ends of the top of the T. The entire slab was also shown to be level. At the end of the tour they had a cement slab shaped like a capital T. We studied the height difference between the two people, then they changed places and there was at least a five inch difference in height. The guide picked two people, each one to step onto the middle of each slab, facing each other. These two slabs are about one foot by four foot each in size. They also take the level and place it perpendicular to the slabs, bracing each end on either slab to show the slabs are also level to each other. ![]() They had two separate slabs of concrete on the ground which are parallel and about two feet apart which they prove are level by setting a contractor's level on them, then a tennis ball and also a water bottle on them at different points. There was only one set of 'experiments' they did that had me scratching my head. Needless to say I never had a moment of vertigo or nausea, because all I had to do was look down at the floor and see exactly what was what. With our tour, the little girl sitting on the chair fell back about six inches and hit her head against the wall twice because the tour guide couldn't quite get that exact center. They have to adjust the chair back and forth until they find that center of gravity and only then do they let go. They can even make a chair appear to hold steady on just it's back legs perched on a ledge, but it is all in the center of gravity. They do their 'slight of hand' with a series of built-up floors, built up even more than the slant of the mountain. If you tilt your head to the side so the built up floor in the 2nd, interior sketch looks level, then you see how the other section of floor (A) looks like it's going uphill, when in fact it is still at a slightly downward angle so a tennis ball or water will still roll downward, but inside it appears to be going uphill as your sense of balance adjusts to actually standing somewhere around 30 degrees. Looking at my pitiful sketch (sorry, I didn't have a felt-tip pen or ruler while on the road) you can probably see how they do it as well. Having a little background in construction, engineering and a fairly healthy dose of common horse sense, it was immediately apparent how they were getting balls, water, etc. I should have taken a picture of the outside, but I was just too distracted/disgusted to think to click the camera. ![]() Below is a diagram I made of their cabin(s). They have two the original cabin, then they decided they wanted to get more tours fitted in on a given day so they constructed another. After one experiment that actually did give me a little pause, knowing that it is some slight of hand but not quite able to figure it out, then we came to the cabin. Then later if a storm blows in from the opposite direction with loads of snow carried on its wind, I bet you can guess what happens. A storm blows in from one direction and dumps a bunch of snow on struggling saplings, they bend over from the weight of the snow accumulating on the one side. The phenomenon is called snow drifts and wind. Um, we live in Northern Arizona and see saplings of oaks and pines doing this bending phenomenon all the time. Not surprising my skeptical side kicked in within the first five minutes when they began touting the 'bent and twisted' trees.
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