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Mirrors don't flip anything. They change direction of photons. Trow a ball on a wall at an angle it bounces of at the same angle there is no flipping. Write a w
by noxer 6y ago
Mirrors don't flip anything. They change direction of photons.
Trow a ball on a wall at an angle it bounces of at the same angle there is no flipping.
Write a word on a paper with fresh paint then press in on a wall then remove it. The word on the wall is exactly want you pressed on the wall it didn't flip the paint you did when you flipped the paper.
- Retric 6y agoBouncing is flipping direction. A light source moving away from you to a mirror is getting dimmer, but it’s reflection is getting brighter. That’s a measurable physical property that’s reversed. Similarly, a red or blue shifted object between the mirror has a reflection that’s revered in the other direction. However, when looking at an object behind you that doesn’t happen as the reflection shows the same side.
- noxer 6y ago>A light source moving away from you to a mirror is getting dimmer, but it’s reflection is getting brighter. The distance to the light source grows if you move it away toward the mirror it gets dimmer. The the distance of the light in the reflection however gets shorter so it get brighter. If the light is right next to you the distance is zero. The reflected light however traveled 2 times the distance to the mirror (dimmer). If you move the light to the mirror both "lights" are one mirror distance away so they have the same brightness (assuming a perfect mirror). There is no "physical property reversed" at all. You could remove the mirror and measure the light intensity twice the distance away instead. Then move the light to the middle where the mirror was and obviously the sensor would measure and increase while you see a decrees in brightness.
- FriendlyNormie 6y agoPunctuation, faggot.
- nendroid 6y agoYou can't prove this at all. How do you know the photons don't pass through the mirror? What you are seeing are photons from the flipped alternate world on the other side of the mirror. Your reflection sees you and you see your reflection. In a sense if you replace the mirror with a real reflected universe the same photons will hit your eyes and your perception of the reflection will be identical as if you are seeing an alternate world. That is what we perceive instinctually and we wouldn't be able to tell the difference. You literally cannot prove it, but that's besides the point. When people refer to flipping in the reflection they are not referring to the physical phenomenon of reflection but they are referring to the interpreted equivalent meaning that if the reflection was replaced with an identical universe to our own how is this reflected universe transformed relative to ours? The answer is: Something flipped. In this case what we are saying is that the z-axis flipped.
- noxer 6y agoEvery surface is a mirror just a bad one. If your "theory" would be correct every surface emits light form some alternative universe but only if light form your universe hits it.
- nendroid 6y agoRead my full post.
- noxer 6y agoI did and I pointed out why your theory is garbage. I didn't comment the last part because as its simply wrong. Nothing is flipped at no axis at all. If what you see in the mirror would be another universe then it would have to me MIRRORED to look like we see things in a mirror. Every row of atoms right-angled towards the mirror would have to have the exact opposite order. Would the other universe be flipped? No it would not. The wrong assumption is that your universe and the one you see in the mirror is identical. But it would have to be mirrored it can not be identical and also not flipped. No matter how you would flip the other universe it would never look like what you see in a mirror. Just use 2 identical but non-simple objects place them next to each other for example 2 coins. No matter how you flip or rotate the coins it will never look like there is a mirror in between. You would need a mirrored coin for that.
- analog31 6y agoInterestingly, optics design software models a flat mirror as a coordinate transformation. "All models are false, but some are useful."
- Grustaf 6y agoThat model is both true and useful though.