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Article #694Re: quick question
From: pax
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1988 04:10
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1988 04:10
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A mirror doesn't reverse left to right nor up to down. The fact that inanimate objects like text appear reversed, is that you turned the book around yourself to hold it up to the mirror. If the book were transparent and you tried to read it while holding it up to the mirror, you would be able to see that the letters are reproduced in exactly the way you see them through the transparent book. Here is an interesting fact about mirrors: The amount of your body you can see in a mirror does not vary with your distance from the mirror, if you stand back you can't see a greater proportion of yourself.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucdcsp!pax From: pax@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: sci.misc Subject: Re: quick question Message-ID: <73600006@uiucdcsp> Date: 25 Jan 88 04:10:00 GMT References: <1170@petsd.UUCP> Lines: 11 Nf-ID: #R:petsd.UUCP:1170:uiucdcsp:73600006:000:607 Nf-From: uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu!pax Jan 24 22:10:00 1988