by Nico Aegerter | Aug 7, 2024 | Debriefing [En]
In one puzzle, the code was only revealed upon squeezing a glass tightly. This effect only works because of quantum mechanics. The reason it wasn’t visible initially is internal reflection. When light passes from a region with a higher index of refraction into a...
by Nico Aegerter | Aug 7, 2024 | Experiment [En]
Throughout this escape room, small LEDs were used, particularly in the lip stick torches. As with any light sources, the basic origin of the photons is an excited electron emits some of its energy in the form of light. This is also indicated by the name as LED is...
by Nico Aegerter | Aug 7, 2024 | Experiment [En]
In another puzzle, you had to use either balls or water to determine the amount of slits in a certain box. It should have been visible that the interaction with the slits works differently for water waves when compared to normal balls. The normal scattering with balls...
by Nico Aegerter | Aug 7, 2024 | Experiment [En]
In one of the puzzles, you had to let a small plate of a certain material float across a train track to hit a sensor. This only worked for precisely one of the the plates, namely the one made of graphite. Some may have already guessed that magnets were at work, which...
by Nico Aegerter | Aug 7, 2024 | Experiment [En]
In another puzzle, a secret message on the inside of a bottle only became visible upon tilting the bottle and thus displacing the liquid. The core of this effect is the index of refraction. The secret number, which is made of glass is only visible under normal...
by Nico Aegerter | Aug 7, 2024 | Experiment [En]
When you put different plates into the lamp, the spacing between the light points changed. This has to do with interference. Light propagates through space like a wave and can therefore interfere like a wave. When two waves interfere constructively, they result in a...
