INSIDE a Spherical Mirror
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. But you areactually right there. Well, at leastthe camera is. Mirrors are amazing.In fact, the word "mirror" comes from Latin "mirari",meaning "to wonder at, to admire."It's also where we get the word miracle. Mirror--acle. Like when mirrors face each other and transform a toilet roominto infinity. I love this kind of stuff.But what if instead of a rectangular prism,the room was a sphere, mirroredall the way around? What would it look like?What would you see floating around in such a room? The first question we shouldask involvesthe light source. If you were in this room using a flashlight and you turned theflashlight off,would the light keep bouncing around off of the mirrore...
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Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. But you areactually right there. Well, at leastthe camera is. Mirrors are amazing.In fact, the word "mirror" comes from Latin "mirari",meaning "to wonder at, to admire."It's also where we get the word miracle. Mirror--acle. Like when mirrors face each other and transform a toilet roominto infinity. I love this kind of stuff.But what if instead of a rectangular prism,the room was a sphere, mirroredall the way around? What would it look like?What would you see floating around in such a room? The first question we shouldask involvesthe light source. If you were in this room using a flashlight and you turned theflashlight off,would the light keep bouncing around off of the mirrore...
