Has anyone experienced a road where cars go up instead of down, defying gravity?
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This happens here, near the place I live. There's one road (I've seen reports of more, but I only tested this one myself), where if you stop the car, leave it unbraked and the gears in the neutral, it doesn't go down the road as it should, but up. If you drop water it reacts the same way (I think a friend of mine tried with a footbal as well). Some people have stated that it's an optical illusion faked by the news reports (although, admitedly, I've never see this particular street in the news) during filming, but, at least in this case this is simply not true. If you go yourself to this street and do the same tests you can clearly see that it's not. Things actualy go up, defying gravity. I'd like to know the scientific explanation for this, if anyone around here knows about it.
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Answer:
Seems to me that the simple thing is to not rely on your eye but get a spirit level and put it on the road surface. Do this next to your object (water is a good example you use) and film it next to the spirit level. If it goes up when the angle of the spirit level shows it going up hill then something interesting is going on. I wouldn't rely on the eye to work out angles based on fixed points in the distance etc or what it looks like compared to other surfaces - there is too much error. Just pu a spirit level on the surface and actually measure it.
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There's also "Magnetic Hill" in New Brunswick; it's a rather convincing, naturally occurring optical illusion.
canoeguide
WISCONSIN DELLS has such a road as you describe.
Scorpio7
Hazzard County were full of those roads lol.
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