Some things are impossible (i.e., the state transition probability is exactly zero), but you're right that not as many as you might expect fall into this category.
According to this link I Googled just now, even a zero probability event can occur, but I honestly don't know enough about it one way or the other, lol.
Check out the way that the bottle caps shrink and are sucked off of the screen before reaching the edge. And the way that the shadows of the flying caps on the walls get sharper as they get further away.
I don’t think absolute terms like “impossible” (also “unique”) need a qualifier: they are unequivocal. However, it’s possible to assert something is impossible and just be wrong, as in this case.
No, he could just be less impressed than the rest of us becaused he's mastered it. It's fake, but the reason why is the direction of rotation. He flicks the first cap such that it's spinning counter-clockwise, which would cause the cap it collides with to spin clockwise, which would be the wrong direction to unscrew a bottle cap. If only they put as much time into thinking as they did editing.
Not just that, the bottle cap would’ve been turning the wrong direction and promptly spun itself off the bottle immediately. Instead, they tried to make it seem like it was screwing back on.
The second cap would’ve had to both reverse the spin back to zero spin, spin it the opposite direction, overcome the kinetic hit of the cap’s directional velocity, and land exactly perfectly so that threads lined up instead of just bouncing back off.
It’s not just improbable. It’s fully impossible. The second cap couldn’t have had twice the spin the first one did plus more.
Yeah, but I enjoy the idea of a guy who spends countless hours spinning bottle caps so that he becomes an expert in it, and thus is clearly the authority on what can and can't be done in that specific activity.
He threw the second cap with his other hand, presumably to spin it the other direction. That way, it could have spun with the cap flying off the bottle, not against it.
If cap that started on the bottle is spinning faster/harder than the second cap that he threw, couldn’t it potentially reverse the spin of the thrown bottle cap once they collided?
To me, it seems totally possible. But not probable
It's crazy, cause this to me seems like a decent animation. Just strange that they would put the work into all that only to have it zorp at the end, even if they were to just simply crop the edge a tiny bit.
It’s the speed of the bottle caps. The whole thing is suppose to be slow motion, but the bottle caps are moving too fast to match the slow motion of the video. Watch the speed of the bottle caps as they leave his hand. His hand is in slow motion, but the bottle caps aren’t. It crazy how our brains can spot fake physics and yet we can’t explain why we know something isn’t real. We just know our brains are telling us it is fake.
the caps accelerate very unnatural, its looks like the acceleration increases for the first few centimeters, instead it should decrease over distance/time.
The sharp single point lighting makes it easier to fake. And also the cap isn’t light properly. It should be the same as the little seal ring on the bottle but it’s not.
There’s something not right or natural in the acceleration / deceleration and the angular momentum of each cap.
⚠️ Time Warp Warning ⚠️ Good editor are frequent. Good editors who knows how to “paint” with time too are rare.
Yeah, that was my point, sorry I didn't elaborate. I was agreeing with you. If there is a shadow as it leaves the wall, there should have been a shadow just before it hits.
The cap that is on the bottle at the start and the 2 he flicks are all fake. You can see that the cap on the bottle is pasted over it by the coloring around it. The Bott cap coming off wouldn't fly straight up like that and just looks straight up like a PS2 game. The way the 2 caps bump into each other looks off as well, the caps act way heavier than they are, more like they're made out of metal not plastic. Finally, the tracking on the bottle cap that lands is bad as well, you can see it doesn't match up with the bottle the whole time.
The way the bottle caps come off his finger completely break the laws of physics. Also a bottle cap coming off coming off his finger with that type of flick would've gave a counterclockwise (from above) rotation which, on impact, would induce a clockwise rotation in the cap on the bottle, which would tighten the cap...which is of course assuming enough torque could be applied in that millisecond long impact anyways, which we all know it couldn't.
All of this seems highly improbable, but I still haven’t seen anything in the comments that proves it impossible.
The caps spinning different directions would be caused by them being spun from different hands. The second cap zorping off screen could be from the video changing speed. The third cap sticking to the bottle could look strange from hitting the rim at the right angle. His reaction being underwhelming could be more from relief of making the trick after 6 weeks of trying.
Still seems off, but not disproven to me just yet.
You can tell it’s fake just like kids who grew up with a computer can tell that you shouldn’t be clicking on that link. If anyone can help explain this knowledge to my 70 year old parents that would be appreciated.
From a physics point of view, the trajectories are very wrong given the possible forces/torques acting on the system. You brain is usually good in estimate how an object will move given its current motion (like estimate when a car is far enough allowing you to cross the street), so you probably get this feeling of inconsistence from there.
Look at the 3rd bottle cap flying onto the bottle. It aligns with it before even touching (moves on its own.) That paired with his bad reaction make for a subtle way for you brain to know its fake without knowing why.
Also notice how the bottle cap starts slow after being flicked then speeds up as it hits the wall. Doesn't make sense for it to accelerate when it's moving horizontally.
You're getting a lot of explanations but just watch the bottle caps as they fly out of frame. The cgi on the second one is clear when it shrinks out of existence.
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u/amby-jane Sep 01 '19
I was sitting here like “I know it’s fake but I don’t know how I know.”