Take a mirror. Point to your right and see your hand that points in the mirror. Where did the other "you" in the mirror points at? To the left, right?
Or look into the mirror and hold your right eye. Which eye did your other "you" hold? Your left eye, right?
This always bother me. I notice this in my art lesson where we are suppose to make a self portrait with the aid of a mirror. And what bothers me is, "if mirrors reverse what's right to left, why wouldn't it reverse what's up to down?". Haven't you guys notice it? It's pretty weird right? Okay well that's just one thing of this so called mirror paradox that I'm concerned with. There's another thing though.
Suppose you have a text and put it in front of the mirror. The text in the mirror would be unreadable. I mean yeah you can still read it but all the letters are like reversed left to right correct? What concerned me though is that "instead of reversing letter one by one, why can't mirrors reverse one whole sentence or one whole paragraph?". See now with just this one mirror our world seems to look complicated. There's still bunch of question like from "what is mirrors made of" or "are glasses and mirrors made out of the same substance" or "how do they make mirrors?" but I'll just stay with this for now.
but isn't flipping a whole word would give the same result as flipping each letter one by one?
ReplyDeletethey are made of sand, the glasses :D