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If you line up 2 mirrors facing eachother & look into them so you can see yourself reflected in both...?

as well as see the same reflected in the mirror reflected in the mirror you are looking into, and then the same in THAT mirror and so on again and again and again....are you glimpsing eternity?

I think there may be something wrong with my brain this overcast friday morning to be coming up with thoughts like this

Update:

Wow, ask a stupid question and you get some brilliant answers - thanks guys. Keep it up, this is really interesting.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    What is life but a hall of mirrors??

    (My life is one with the funny bendy mirrors that make me all out of proportion...!)

  • 1 decade ago

    They would have to be perfectly flat, perfectly reflective and perfectly aligned. If they were though, there would be an shrinking black region in the centre until it got down to the quantum level. So, if two mirrors 5 metres across were placed 5 metres apart, it would continue until the mirror had an apparent diameter of less than 300 nanometres, which would happen after about 10 milliseconds. This also means each image is infinitesimally delayed compared to the last, so if laser light was strobed between the two, there would be extremely fast shapes of light shrinking towards the centre of each mirror. I doubt they would be visible though.

  • 1 decade ago

    Marky answer is correct, the angle of reflection is equal to the incidence. So if you lined yourself up so that your image is horizontal the light would be reflected back horizontally so you see only yourself. Another interesting thing about mirrors is that the image (virtual image0 is far bend the mirror as the object is in front.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    On a less philisophical note, no. Your head will be in the way, and every time the light is reflected back, a little will be absorbed by the mirror, so the reflections get dimmer and dimmer.

    Also the tunnel of reflections will reach a point where the area of reflection is entirely hidden by your head.

    Having said that you could philosophise the only thing that stops us seeing eternity is our own head.

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  • 1 decade ago

    You think two mirrors are something? Try this.

    Make a perfect cube of mirrors with each panel measuring eighteen inches on all four sides. Then make a square cube. That will be the tough part. MAKING SURE THE CUBE IS "SQUARE".

    Leave out the bottom then with a small lamp stick your head in it! Man it will blow your freaking mind away.

    Make sure the mirror is of a high quality and the cube is square.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    I even have mirror gazed in the previous, or maybe observed issues...I had a distinctive experience than the only you have defined. no count how annoying we attempt we are able to by no skill see our very own face. We see a mirrored image or a picture of ourself. I even have created an identical sensation as mirror observing by way of using staring besides. there are various layers of seeing.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Technically you are, you can see and infinite number of mirrors, except eventually they're too small to see with the naked eye. But in those smaller and smaller images of mirrors, you can see past images/version of yourself. i.e. one of the smallest images of mirrors will contain an image how you looked 5 seconds ago, except you can only see your sides and upper/lower extremities, because the middle part of your body will be blocked by the next, smaller mirror. It's the same concept as seeing the sun as it looked 8 minutes ago due to the speed of light.

  • 1 decade ago

    You are looking at the reflections of your sub-conscience. The many facets of ones personality; When you are happy, sad, angry, etc.. Going through the whole array of human emotions and states of mind. After all each one of those is an individual within his or herself. All combining to create, you , the unique person that you are.

  • 1 decade ago

    mirrors do not make exact replicas of anything, only a reflection. in that aspect it changes each time, and is only a single representation of the original. this reflection process has both a beginning and an end. far from an eternity through my eyes.

    Source(s): nothing is forever.
  • Marky
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    You will see a finite amount of reflections of yourself as you will be at a slight angle.

    If you could line yourself up perfectly squarly, you wouldn't see any as your haed would be in the way!

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