a mirror infront of a mirror

Discussion in 'Astronomy, Exobiology, & Cosmology' started by stephen1992, Aug 11, 2007.

  1. stephen1992 Registered Member

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    if u look at two mirrors opposite each other or even if you video tape a tv that has a feed from the video recorder does the image go infinate if you keep zooming down or does it stop beyond the point of seeing it
     
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  3. Communist Hamster Cricetulus griseus leninus Valued Senior Member

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    Well, it would stop eventually because the view would be either blocked by the camera (or your head), or if you were looking at it from an angle, the recursive reflections would curve off in one direction and be obscured by themselves.

    Also, theres the matter of the mirrors not being perfectly reflective. They are slightly imperfect, which means that they absorb some photons for each image. Eventually there won't be enough photons reflected back for you to see anything. If I am correct, this is why each further image is slightly darker than the last.
     
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  7. stephen1992 Registered Member

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    what do you mean how does the mirror just absorb photons after all photons are energy what happens once absorbed
     
  8. draqon Banned Banned

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    I guess they dissociate into energy of atoms surrounding...:shrug:

    I was always intrigued by this
     
  9. stephen1992 Registered Member

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    you see in my theory every answer leaves at least two questions
     
  10. draqon Banned Banned

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    you want to see infinity?
    Find a person close to you and ask him/her "you want to see infinity?"
    If yes...than stare at the eye of the person and tell him to look at your eye...you will see reflection of your eye in his/her eye and in that reflection you will see reflection of his/her eye's reflection of your eye....
     
  11. stephen1992 Registered Member

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    but our vision is no where near to capable to see our own eyes perhaps more than 3 times in the eyes oposite
     
  12. draqon Banned Banned

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    look closer...

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  13. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    Eventually the source of light will be so far away from the target and the image will be so small that one air molecule will diffract the light beam away from the target. That is why stars "twinkle."
     
  14. stephen1992 Registered Member

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    ok what if you did it in a vacum
     
  15. draqon Banned Banned

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    Armstrong in space does not agree.
     
  16. Communist Hamster Cricetulus griseus leninus Valued Senior Member

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    The energy of the photon passes to the molecules which make up the mirror. This makes the molecule vibrate faster, which on a macroscopic scale is known as "an increase in temperature".

    Also, you asked a question, you didn't make a theory. Please don't misuse the word "theory".
     
  17. iceaura Valued Senior Member

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    If you set up three mirrors in a standing triangle, and set a candle down in the center, it's pretty spectacular.

    The trick with the eyes works with cats, too.
     
  18. GeoffP Caput gerat lupinum Valued Senior Member

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    It creates a gate to hell, through which a standard type IV glabrezu will step and drag you into a badly-diagrammed 2D representation of the Demonweb Pits.

    Don't step off the paths. Seriously.
     

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