text: objects r tripled in size in basement when looking down thru laundry chute door in floor from one floor up why i have a laundy chute door in floor of bathroom above basement just a square cut in the floor.objects dropped below r 2 to 3 times their normal size upon veiwing. this is strange to me as well as to others considering i'm right on the first level above the basement , maybe 8 to 10 feet. what is the expanation for this? that's not a normal laundry chute.  what you have there is actually a miniature wormhole, with a gravity lens in the portal.  the objects appear larger because they are not really 10 feet away.  they are only 3 feet from you as you peer through the wormhole.  if you yourself were to slide down the wormhole, you would be instantly compressed by the gravity lens, and then decompressed and you would enter a magical world that would seem to you to be completely and totally identical to this world, except that chocolate ice cream tastes like vanilla, and vanilla ice cream tastes like chocolate.  i would test out the safety of the wormhole by sending a cat, or preferably a younger brother through the chute first.