Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how does it work? I know how mirrors work but this does boggle my mind a little bit.This isnt a bait or anything. Im genuinely little confused right now. How can the mirror reflect the light rays from the object? Can someone ideally draw how it works?
Americans need to be nuked for their stupidity
>>17004262okay so this is how it works. But why does the mirror "render" the object in a different place instead of where the light ray hits it? Why does it render it at point A instead of at point B?
>>17004264it does render it at point b.
>>17004286then why do I see the object at point A?
>>17004256>how does it work? >I know how mirrors work no you don't. anyone who knows how mirrors work wouldn't be puzzled by this. if you didn't pretend you knew the answer while being a dumb faggot, i would have provided an answer and been nicer.
>>17004289It's a spambot anyways so replying or not is the same. The thread will still be remade
>>17004289how am I being a dumb faggot? I simply know that mirros reflect light. What I dont understand is why Im seeing what Im seeing
>>17004264Simple as.Geometry and principal of light
>>17004256>>17004264The reflection is 2D, not 3D. The depth is an illusion. Think about what that implies.What would happen when you push that book closer to the mirror? The reflection obviously doesn't move "towards you" since it's a 2D plane. It shifts to the right and down since you're looking at it from the upper left, preserving that illusion of depth.Likewise, the ball, which is further away from the mirror, reflects on a further upper left portion of the mirror. That spot on the mirror *does* have line of sight with the ball. It just looks like it doesn't because your brain is imagining depth where there is none.
>>17004287Anon, I...
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>>17004256The really weird thing about this meme is how all of the Confused hold an object up to the obfuscator. Let us assume for a moment that mirrors are confusing objects and that literal monkeys didn't understand reflections in pools of water however many years ago. Why are they holding objects up to the obfuscator? Why do they think holding an egg, a candy, or whatever shit isn't the same as just placing their hand against it? People post this webm to make fun of Ameritards, but they only ever question their inability to understand optics. No one can explain why these "people" feel the need to hold something. And what do they expect to see in the mirror, exactly? Some grey expanse? These people react to a reflection with surprise, so they should expect to see something else, but I'm certain if you asked them what they expected to see they wouldn't be able to provide an answer. I'm tired of people only making fun of their awe. I want a real answer surrounding why they feel the need to hold something and what they expect to see.
>>17004341What they expect to see is the the "obfuscator" obfuscating the object. It's really just as simple as them having a poor understanding of parallax and perspective. Why do they hold a prop instead of just using their hands? People like props. They're not expecting any different behavior. It's just a tendency people have to grab some random object to make a point rather than do a finger puppet show when they're doing a visual demonstration.You're thinking way too hard about this.
>>17004344>You're thinking way too hard about this.It just doesn't make sense to me, man. I can't comprehend what their brain is doing and it makes me uncomfortable. There shouldn't be a thought process where someone thinks a pen is more effective than their finger for the experiment. I can't reason it out, even when you say props are just a habit. I guess I'm just autistic, but I want to envision what they anticipated seeing. Like, what would the obfuscator even look like in the mirror? That's what I meant by an expanse of grey.
The stupidity comes from thinking you are seeing "behind" the paper. The paper is covering the mirror, retard. You can't see through the paper, you are literally moving the camera to look at the part of the mirror to the right of the paper that is not being covered, and the light is bouncing off that at an angle like in this: >>17004357Lol.
>>17004256You should read about the Holographic Principle.According to Bekenstein and Hawking, the maximum amount of information (entropy) a mirror can contain is proportional to its surface area.And because information scales with the bounding surface, it suggests that the interior of the mirror - or any region of space "behind" the image - may fundamentally not have its own independent information.In other words, mirrors are event horizons between a higher-dimensional gravitational universe and a lower-dimensional quantum field as described by AdS/CFT correspondence.This is mind-boggling because, following ER=EPR, it would mean mirrors could actually be the openings of wormholes, more commonly known as portals.But this is still speculative.
>>17004354>I want to envision what they anticipated seeing. Like, what would the obfuscator even look like in the mirror? That's what I meant by an expanse of grey.Yeah, I understand that. What I was trying to communicate is they aren't expecting to see anything "weird." I guess the best way to describe what's going on in their heads is imagining the mirror as a photograph or something. Of course, if the mirror were acting as a static canvas or screen that displays what's directly in front of it, the egg would be hidden. And that model "works" in 90% of cases where you're not paying attention to the details. So if that's the model you've internalized your whole life, the confusion seems understandable.
>>17004361who are you talking to
>>17004256Mirrors are portals to a parallel universe, identical to our own except for the fact that everything is flipped right-to-left and feels like glass. You can't enter the mirrorverse because your counterpart inevitably blocks your way.
that's for dumb peoplelevel 2 question is: why does the mirror flip left and right, but not up and down?
>>17004494This is true, I'm from the mirrorverse and only got out because I learned mirror-judo and switched spots with my meatverse me.
>>17004361yeah I was a bit confused at this thing too until I did it myself and realized it's just a question of angles. if the object was very small, like a penny, they wouldn't see it unless they basically shoved their faces into the mirror at an extreme angle and even then. Like on that picture, you can barely see the yellow circle from the mirror's "point of view". That's the "hidden information the mirror doesn't know about" from their perspective.
>>17004256The greatest minds are compelled to figure out trickery over our ape cousins just for balance.
>>17004487Your mother, lol.
>>17004501>mirror flip left and rightthis nigga I swear to god>>17004256your brain is not naturally inclined to understand all the real angles and ways light reflects. if you sit down and work the geometry out, and draw an illustration, you'll see that you figured out why the light is not playing tricks.if your video example just turned the paper sideways is it was horizontally longer instead of vertically you'd see that a significantly larger part of the whatever that is will be blocked.
