August 9, 2013 in Science & Technology

INSIDE a Spherical Mirror

FOLLOW MICHAEL STEVENS: http://www.Twitter.com/tweetsauce LINKS AND SOURCES BELOW Vsauce3 — What Does Star Wars Look Like?: http://youtu.be/Jq-NnQmI_2c Vsauce2 — Star Wars LÜT! http://bit.ly/14drXDc Science Friction episode on Star Wars in real life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_Ubscwbs9E Richard Feynman talks about how mirrors ‘reverse’ things: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msN87y-iEx0 Mirror etymology: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=mirror Infinity mirror room: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/02/swing-to-infinity-inside-thilo-franks-mirrored-room/ Japanese TV show uses a REAL mirrored sphere ‘room’: http://bit.ly/13VrbeR Spherical Mirror links: http://www.thescienceforum.com/physics/29962-what-would-one-see-inside-reflective-sphere.html http://www.thescienceforum.com/general-discussion/31292-how-reflection-look-like-inside-big-mirror-ball.html http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=144486 Love / Hate shirt: http://uptoyoutoronto.com/storemaker/images/PB140039.JPG Why mirrors don’t reverse up and down as well: http://io9.com/5971306/why-do-mirrors-reverse-left-and-right-but-not-top-and-bottom Curved mirror mug trick: http://www.grand-illusions.com/acatalog/Mirror-Mug-458.html mere-exposure effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere-exposure_effect NPR RadioLab on reflections: http://www.radiolab.org/2011/apr/18/mirror-mirror/ Your image’s size on a mirror: http://psychsciencenotes.blogspot.com/2011/08/mirrors-are-literally-windows-to.html