{"id":2994,"date":"2017-04-05T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/?p=2994"},"modified":"2017-03-24T13:43:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T20:43:46","slug":"gravity-hills-might-be-the-strangest-natural-phenomena-youve-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youwealthrevolution.com\/blog\/gravity-hills-might-be-the-strangest-natural-phenomena-youve-ever-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGravity Hills\u201d Might Be the Strangest Natural Phenomena You’ve Ever Seen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ExpandedConsciousness.com shares:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gravity hills<\/em><\/strong> are a strange natural phenomena in the world where the natural laws of physics seem to be working in reverse. There are numerous \u2018gravity hills\u2019 located all over the world<\/em><\/strong>, meaning you might have passed through one without even noticing. Strange things happen, such as your car moving up a hill, instead of down, when the car is put in neutral. Or, similarly, placing a ball on the hill and watching it travel upward, not downward.<\/p>\n

If you want to check one out for yourself, there\u2019s Confusion Hill<\/em><\/strong> in California and even Magnetic Hill which can be found in Canada. As one might imagine, these strange locations have inspired myths such as massive magnets hidden in the Earth and even stories of witchcraft, but the truth is actually grounded in science.<\/p>\n

This car here can be seen moving backwards, up a gravity hill in Aryshire, Scotland:
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This road in Pennsylvania was tested out using a ball by one YouTube user:
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Why is this happening? Basically, we\u2019re seeing an optical illusion. An optical illusion so profound that people often use equipment<\/em><\/strong> to fully understand what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

“The embankment is sloped in a way that gives you the effect that you are going uphill,\u201d says materials physicist Brock Weiss<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“You are, indeed, going downhill, even though your brain gives you the impression that you’re going uphill.”<\/p>\n

Psychologists say<\/em><\/strong> that this optical trick that confuses our brains happens because of the landscape and our point of reference. \u201cGravity hills\u201d tend to exist mainly where we lack a solid point of reference or the horizon is obscured in some way, causing us uncertainty in determining the slope.<\/p>\n

“The whole landscape tilts this way, and the road tilts in the same direction, but by a smaller amount, so the relative slope appears to go the [opposite] way,\u201d says Rob Macintosh to the Science Channel<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n