Posted: 2/21/2008 7:44:14 PM EDT
| When you look at an object in a mirror are you looking at the distance to the mirror the distance to the object? Thats kinda confusing so let me see if i can clarify, say the object is 2 feet away from the mirror, so is the distance you see 2 feet or 4 feet? |
| To make this clear...if you are 2 feet from a mirror and look at yourself, you are only looking at light traveling 2 feet, but as soon as you look at another object the distance the light is traveling is the distance from that object to the mirror and then the distance from the mirror to you. |
No, if you looked at an object 2 feet from the mirror and you were two feet from the mirror, you would be focusing/crossing your eyes for a distance of 4 feet. |
?????? . . . You are no different than any other object you are looking at. ANYTHING you see in the mirror is, as far as your brain is concerned, the distance of you to the mirror PLUS the mirror to the object. |
Your mass increases dramatically. Time slows around you, but you feel it go by as normal, then you disappear from history for violating a fundamental law/theory. |
no you are confusing two things. light traveling and seeing. I am seeing the mirror, which has a image of me, place a sheet over the mirror...i still see the sheet. but the light the mirror is reflecting is still there. so as soon as I focus on an object other them myself I am viewing the distance to that object as well. |
A white object mixes the light enough that your eyes canoot begin to focus it. Therefore, your eyes must focus on the object. But with a mirror, the object reflects the object's light exactly (or close enough for our purposes), and your eyes are actually focusing on the original object. YOU, my friend, are confusing WHITE objects with MIRRORS. If you look into a window which is standing 10 feet from you, and there is an object 20 feet from you and past the window, your reflection and the object outside will appear to be at the same distance. Try it, it works. Think of it this way: If you were standing 10 feet from the mirror, and someone were standing next to the mirror and were looking at you, you would appear 10 feet away to him. If he were to turn around and look at your reflection (his face would be pretty much up against the mirror), you would STILL appear 10 feet away. The only conclusion is that from YOUR perspective, you would see BOTH of those 10 feet, or a total of 20. Damn, I'm drunk and I can STILL explain this stuff even though I have to retype every other letter. |
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Quoted: You're traveling in your car at the speed of light and you turn the headlights on - what happens? Your mass increases dramatically. Time slows around you, but you feel it go by as normal, then you disappear from history for violating a fundamental law/theory. And then you get pulled over by the Intergalactic Police (whose red&blue lights work perfectly up to about Warp3).  Seriously, your eyes will focus at an image that is perceived to be 4 feet from you eye even though you're looking at a mirror that is 2 feet in front of your eye. |