QA网友：谁能解释悬浮僧侣的奥秘？我相信他们真的有某种神力
Did science try to explain the levitating Asian monks somehow, except claiming that they’re a hoax?
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不是科学，是工程。
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Not science, engineering.
不是科学，是工程。
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不是科学，是工程。
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From the first time I saw these guys, I was amazed that the explanation wasn’t obvious to literally everyone.
我第一次看到这些人的时候，我很惊讶居然不是每个人都明显地看出了这个解释。
You will always see two interesting features with such levitators. There’s a staff in hand, and a carpet or something below. The intuitively obvious answer is that the carpet/flowers/whatever serve as a base and the staff serves as the structural join between the base and some seating apparatus that runs through the sleeves of the robe.
你总是会看到这种悬浮者身上有两个有趣的特征。他们手中拿着一根杖，下面有一块地毯什么的。直观上明显的答案是，地毯/花朵/任何东西作为基座，而杖则充当了连接基座和一种穿过袍子袖子的座椅装置的结构连接件。
你总是会看到这种悬浮者身上有两个有趣的特征。他们手中拿着一根杖，下面有一块地毯什么的。直观上明显的答案是，地毯/花朵/任何东西作为基座，而杖则充当了连接基座和一种穿过袍子袖子的座椅装置的结构连接件。
It’s nifty, but not complicated. The trick is obvious but with a moment’s thought.
它很巧妙，但并不复杂。这个戏法是显而易见的，但要想一想。
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I think I'll build one for myself and use it when handing out Halloween candy. Dress up like a floating ghost.
我想我会给自己做一个，并在分发万圣节糖果的时候用它。打扮得像个漂浮的幽灵。
That’d be neat.
那将很有趣。
If you use a bike seat hidden under the robe, you can appear to be standing, floating off the ground. If you make the staff a scythe, you can dress up like a skeleton under the robe, and do a good grim reaper.
Extra credit if you work out a counterweight system, so you can appear to be seated and levitating, but then with very minor movement of your hand on the staff, exert enough force to lift your whole body weight to standing and floating. That would be an awesome scare effect, as they might expect the levitation, but as soon as you are standing, but floating 10 inches off the ground, having apparently risen several feet into the air is less likely to have been seen before, and really sells the illusion.
如果你在袍子下隐藏一个自行车座椅，你可以看起来站立在空中漂浮。如果你把杖做成镰刀，你可以在袍子下面扮成骷髅，并扮演一个可怕的死神。
如果你设计一个平衡系统，让自己看起来坐在空中漂浮，但只需轻微移动杖上的手，就能施加足够的力量使自己整个身体重量站立并浮空。那将是一种令人惊叹的吓人效果，他们可能期望到悬浮，但当你站立起来，漂浮在离地面10英寸的地方，看起来似乎已经升高了几英尺，这在以前是不太可能看到的，真正的营造了这种幻觉。
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Ok now you got me thinking
好的，你现在让我思考起来了。
He’s got everyone thinking.
他让大家都开始思考了。
Bike seat to sit on, with a rod a bit below to hook your feet on to appear sitting, and another further down to stand on.
使用自行车座椅作为坐垫，下面稍低位置有一根杆子可以勾住你的脚，让你看起来像是坐着，再往下有另一根更低的杆子可以让你站立。
I need to consult with my engineer on this. This could bring giving trick or treat candy to impressionable children to a whole new level of . . . disturbing illusion. For decades now, I’ve been using a standard pair of small latex goat horns that remarkably match my pale complexion glued to my head as my costume. Otherwise, I dress quite . . . Normally. Polo shirt and khakis, for example. One little girl looked up at me and asked, “Are those real?” Being a wise guy, I said, “Yes!” She said, “They’re Not!” As she ran back to her mother waiting at the sidewalk.
Another year, a slightly older girl looked at me after I opened the door and after a long pause asked, with a catch in her voice, “Are you the Devil?” After I gave her the candy, I said, “I’m not wearing a costume”. She looked at me like I was putting her on, which I was, and after she left, my Sister-in-Law’s friend said, “She’ll need years of therapy.”
The levitation trick sounds better than the coffin on the porch trick or the headless doorman trick.
我需要与我的工程师商量一下。这可能会将把易受影响的孩子们送糖果的行为提升到一个全新的……令人不安的幻觉水平。几十年来，我一直使用一对标准的小乳胶山羊角，它与我苍白的肤色非常匹配，粘在我的头上作为我的服装。除此以外，我打扮得相当……正常。例如，穿着Polo衫和卡其裤。有一个小女孩抬头看着我问：“那是真的吗？”作为一个机智的家伙，我说：“是的！”她说：“不是真的！”然后她跑回人行道上等待的母亲那里。
另一年，一个稍微年长一点的女孩在我打开门后看着我，经过漫长的停顿后带着声音颤抖地问：“你是魔鬼吗？”在我给她糖果后，我说：“我没有穿服装。”她像是认为我在戏弄她一样看着我，而事实上我确实如此。在她离开后，我嫂子的朋友说：“她需要几年的心理治疗。”
相比门廊上的棺材或无头侍者的把戏，悬浮的戏法听起来更好。
My daughter (an engineer) did exactly that! She put a structure together and brought it to our house, we have a better neighborhood for trick-or-treating. She had a friend of hers help her with the flowing robes. My husband put up some colored lights to add to the mystery. The young kids in the neighborhood were amazed. Good fun!
我女儿（一位工程师）就是这么做的！她组装了一个结构，带到我们家，我们住的社区更适合“不给糖果就捣蛋”。她找了一个朋友帮她解决飘逸的长袍。我丈夫还挂了一些彩色灯光增加神秘感。社区里的小孩子们都惊叹不已。真是好玩！
That'd be a great idea,I wish I could do it but they got people so scared around here they don't even trick or treat anymore.
那是个好主意，我希望我也能这样做，但这里的人们被吓坏了，他们甚至不再进行“不给糖果就捣蛋”了。
My younger brother actually had the cops called one Halloween. He’d used an old WWI U.S. Army uniform handed down in the family to make himself “headless” (a lens for seeing replaced one jacket button) and sat on the wide porch railing holding a lit jack o’ lantern in one arm. When someone came up the steps to the porch, he kicked a switch to hidden speakers that played a set of dissonant low, low notes and then stood up, holding the jack o’ lantern like it was looking at the people. There were little kids who screamed and fled in tears.
The cop just warned him but first took him across town to where another high school kid was set up in a coffin along the sidewalk up to his house, with a periscope lens looking out to watch the sidewalk, and when someone would come up he would slowly lift the coffin lid — rigged to creak, of course! — sit up, and mumble garbled words through mummy-like wrappings (though this mummy was wearing a VERY nice suit!). The cop wanted to see who scared whom!
我弟弟在一个万圣节的时候实际上被叫了警察。他用家族传下来的一套旧一战时期的美国陆军制服把自己装扮成了“无头人”（用一个镜头代替了一颗钮扣），坐在宽敞的门廊栏杆上，一只点亮的南瓜灯握在一只手臂上。当有人走上门廊的台阶时，他踢动一个隐藏的扬声器开关，播放一套不和谐的低音音符，然后站起身，像是南瓜灯正在注视着人们一样握着它。有些小孩尖叫着哭着逃跑了。
警察只是警告了他，但首先带他去了镇上另一个高中生的家，那个孩子在人行道上摆放了一个带有潜望镜的棺材，当有人走近时，他会缓慢地抬起棺材盖——当然，盖子设计成会发出吱吱声！他会坐起来，用像木乃伊般的绷带模糊不清地嘟囔着（尽管这个木乃伊穿着一套非常漂亮的西装！）。警察想看看是谁能吓到谁！
…and another relevant feature — the levitating person always wears long sleeves.
...还有一个相关特征——漂浮的人总是穿着长袖。
…and never see them rise from floor, or move the least bit while levitating…
…永远没有看到它们从地板上升起，或者在悬浮的时候移动一点点…
Yeah that’s the point no one sees them floating up it’s just “ look that monk is float!” Not how did he get there?
是的，这就是关键，没有人看到他们浮起来，只是“看，那个僧侣在飘浮！”而不是他是怎么到那里的？
I have seen them jump into the mid air pose.
我看到过他们跳到半空中的姿势。
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I mean…how someone believes this stuff without seeing movement..?
And the pole in hand makes it so very obvious that there’s something tricky going on, even if it’s not clear what that tricky thing is.
我的意思是...一个人没有看到任何动作，怎么会相信这种东西呢？
而手上拿着的杆子使得发生了什么把戏显而易见，尽管不清楚那个把戏是什么。
There's literally something up his sleeve!
他的袖子里肯定有什么东西！
If you think’s ridiculous, I know a guy who claims to turn cheap wine into blood!
如果你认为这太荒谬了，我认识一个声称可以把廉价的酒变成血的家伙！
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For decades, friends and I have regularly changed expensive beer into worthless urine, but no one wants to see That miracle.
几十年来，我和朋友们经常把昂贵的啤酒变成一文不值的尿液，但没有人想看到那个奇迹。
The real magic is in how the magician arranges himself on the platform without making it obvious how it all works.
真正的魔术在于魔术师如何在舞台上安排自己，而不让人们看出其中的玄机。
Show up at 5 AM, and stay until 9 PM or so.
早上5点出现，一直待到下午9点左右。
That’s a long time without peeing
那么长时间不上厕所啊。
It would not surprise me if there were a device of some sort for that purpose.
如果有某种装置可以达到这个目的，我也不会感到惊讶。
He is definitely ‘stuck.’
他肯定是“卡住了”。
If need debunking I'd encamp myself there.
如果需要揭穿，我会在那里扎营。
or how does he pee
那他是怎么上厕所的。
There are a couple of solutions
either don't pee (don't drink ahead and suffer a bit of dehydration)
piss in a prearranged bottle
piss in a diaper
piss in a tube that goes through the construction (might look strange thoug if your piss comes out of the bottom of the rod)
有几种解决方案，
要么不上厕所（提前不喝水，稍微有点脱水），
在预先准备好的瓶子里尿尿，
尿在尿布里，
或者尿在穿过结构物的管道里（如果你的尿液从杆子底部流出可能看起来很奇怪）。
When I visited Rome these guys were all over the place and we saw the setup one morning. The guy had a number of helpers that held up an opaque cloth all around the guru so that he could mount the steel frx and arrange the robes to hide the trick. What I thought was the best part of the trick was that it actually got people to give them money.
当我去罗马的时候，这些家伙无处不在，我们在一个早晨看到了他们的设置。那个家伙有几个助手，他们举起一块不透明的布围绕着大师，这样他就能爬上钢架并摆弄长袍来隐藏这个把戏。我认为这个把戏最棒的地方是它真的能让人们给他们钱。
Just set it up and get in position. A dozen people may be watching as they walk past, but so what? They have places to go and things to do. Five minutes later, they are gone and new people are arriving.
It’s not like there is some big secret to protect. Anyone with a brain knows how it works.
只需要布置好并摆好姿势。可能有十几个人在经过时看着，但又怎样呢？他们有地方要去，有事情要做。五分钟后，他们就走了，新的人又到来了。
并不是有什么大秘密需要保护。任何有头脑的人都知道它是如何工作的。
Have seen one of them setting up when I was out late at a event.
当我在一个晚上外出参加活动时，见过其中一个人正在布置。
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I’ve seen Yoda do it in Trafalgar Square in London. Obviously he was using the Force.
我在伦敦特拉法尔加广场见过尤达这么做。显然他是在使用原力。
Larry Jackson to David Sandiford
More like the farce.
更像是闹剧。
The Farce is all around us. It flows through us, it shapes our lives.
闹剧就在我们周围。它流淌在我们之间，塑造着我们的生活。
Obviously the force works only because he is from a galaxy far, far away.
显然原力之所以有效，只是因为他来自一个非常遥远的星系。
Not only can this monk levitate, flowers bloom underneath his sublime form wherever he goes, even out of the asphalt. Truly a holy man.
这位僧侣不仅可以漂浮，无论他走到哪里，甚至在沥青路面上，都会有鲜花在他崇高的身形下盛开。真是一位圣人。
Blooming plastic flowers. How authentic.
盛开的是塑料花。多么真实啊。
Hey! Fresh flowers are expensive. If more people tithed to him, the devout would receive the real enlightenment from him, along with real flowers!.
嘿！新鲜的花很贵。如果更多人向他奉献，虔诚的信徒们将从他那里得到真正的启迪，包括真正的花！
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If I’d thought up this trick, I’d have also thought, “Naw, won’t fool anyone!”
Guess I’d have been wrong.
如果我想出这个把戏，我也会想，“不，骗不了任何人!”
看来我错了。
A similar trick being used here by UK magician Dynamo. The short sleeves make it more impressive-looking but I’m fairly certain he has a fake arm on.
英国魔术师Dynamo也在这里使用了类似的把戏。短袖让它看起来更令人印象深刻，但我很确定他戴了一个假手臂。
Andy Kaminski
If you knock the staff away and they don't fall, they are the real deal.
如果你打掉他们手中的杖，而他们不会掉下来，那他们就是真的。
Next they’ll be asking if anyone can explain those bronze statue guys - how do they get there and what does a bronze statue need change for anyway?
接下来他们会问有人能解释那些铜像人——它们是如何到那里的，铜像需要零钱干什么呢？
They melt down the coins to make more bronze.
他们会把硬币熔化以制作更多的铜像。
OK, that explains the levitating Asian monks.
But what about the non-Asian ones?
好的，那解释了亚洲的漂浮僧侣。
但非亚洲的呢？
I think the real trick here is to be able to stay in this position for hours every day
我认为真正的诀窍在于每天能够保持这个姿势数小时。
Plus, it would be rather trivial to make the upright out of a hydraulic cylinder and conceal a hose running to a hydraulic pump. Then the levitator could start out sitting on the ground, push a concealed switch and appear to actually rise up from the ground.
此外，使用液压缸制作垂直支架并隐藏一根连接到液压泵的软管是相当简单的。然后，漂浮者可以从坐在地上的状态开始，按下隐藏的开关，看起来真的是从地面上升起。
It's still fun. I know magic isn't real, but I love it. In my home, everyone belives in Santa Clause, The Easter Bunny, Leprechauns, etc. I'll take fun over fact 70% of the time.
这仍然很有趣。我知道魔术并不是真实的，但我喜欢它。在我家里，每个人都相信圣诞老人、复活节兔子、妖精等等。70%的时间里我更愿意享受乐趣而非事实。
Why not both? Fun and facts aren't, or don't need to be, in opposition. I don't believe in Santa Claus but enjoy the mythos. I don't believe in magic, but greatly enjoy trying to understand the math/science/facts behind it.
为什么不能两者兼顾？乐趣和事实并不是对立的，或者不需要对立。我不相信圣诞老人，但我喜欢神话故事。我不相信魔术，但我非常喜欢尝试理解其中的数学/科学/事实。
I agree to a point. But the mystery is part of the fun.
在某种程度上我同意。但神秘感也是乐趣的一部分。
You know the three stages of man?
He believes in Santa Claus.
He doe NOT believe in Santa Claus
He is Santa Claus.
你知道男人的三个阶段吗？
他相信圣诞老人。
他不相信圣诞老人。
他成为了圣诞老人。
The n there are those goofballs who, while in a lotus position hop and claim they are levitating. They need psychiatric help.
还有那些在莲花坐中跳跃并声称自己在漂浮的那些傻瓜。他们需要心理帮助。
They were a good source of comedy.
他们是一个很好笑的源泉。
I’m not sure what you’re talking about.
我不知道你在说什么。
The Maharishi’s yogic sect claims that you can levitate once you reach an advanced level of consciousness. Practitioners spent a lot of time bouncing around in the lotus position expecting that one of these days, they won’t come back down…
Maharishi的瑜伽教派声称，一旦你达到高级意识水平，你就可以悬浮起来。修炼者花了很多时间在莲花坐上跳来跳去，期待着有一天他们不会再下来了……
My favourite thing about this picture are the people walking by in the background paying no attention at all to the dude who is apparently levitating. I get the distinct impression they are on to him.
我最喜欢这张照片的是背景中毫不关注那个看起来在漂浮的人的路人们。我强烈感觉到他们看穿了他。
They aren’t a hoax, they are a trick. People love these sorts of tricks, especially when they are done well and evoke a sense of mystery and realness. There is a multibillion dollar global entertainment industry based on this. Engineering is heavily relied upon.
他们不是骗局，而是一个把戏。人们喜欢这些把戏，特别是当它们做的很好并引发一种神秘和真实感时。全球娱乐产业以此为基础，市值达数十亿美元。这其中大量依赖工程技术。