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What we see in the mirror is not what others see?
When you look at the mirror, you do not see the person that other people see. This is because your reflection in the mirror is reversed by your brain. When you raise your left hand, your reflection will raise its right hand. The image that we are looking at in the mirror is not the face that we show to the world.
What does a mirror look like when it has nothing to reflect?
The simple way to put it is this; if there is nothing in the room, there is nothing for the observer to see. And if there is no light in the room, there is no way the observer can see anything. An empty room of mirrors will look like a vacuum of nothingness.
When I look at myself in the mirror is that what other people see?
No, it’s the opposite of what other people see. A mirror reverses the image it reflects and the same is true for a camera photo or a video image.
Can someone see you in a mirror if you can see them?
They can see us only if we can see their eyes in their reflection. It is true because of the law of reflection – angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection. If the reflected and the incident ray are replaced then they retrace each other’s path.
What would happen if there was a room full of mirrors?
The most you could possibly see would be the light source, so where the light is coming from is highly relevant. Realistically, though, there will be losses in this system. The mirrors are imperfect, so they’ll absorb some of the energy in each reflection.
What happens if a room is all mirrors?
A: Once you start to look, the room will no longer be completely surrounded by perfect mirrors. It will need a little hole leading to your eye, which absorbs light that hits it as the first stage of sending a signal to your brain. So you’d see a uniform blur of whatever intensity and color the light happened to have.
Why can a person see their reflection in a mirror?
An image can be seen in the mirror because the light reflected from an object falls on the mirror and it is reflected. So, light incident on any smooth shiny surface like a mirror bounces back into the same medium. This bouncing of light by any smooth surface is called reflection of light.
Can you see your reflection in others eyes?
From a distance, we see shiny glints in the eyes of other people, says Shree Nayar, a computer scientist at Columbia University in New York City. “If you look up close,” he says, “you’re actually getting a reflection of the world.”