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Mirror's Perspective
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Comments from YouTube:

@TheActionLab

1y↑2.3K

Lol, I said Star Wars...where are my fact-checkers?!

@nerdscurvy1092

1y↑62

Sorry I was late.

@GrimmHades

1y↑127

Spock was always my favorite Star Wars character

@joe_croupier

1y↑28

Dude said Star Wars 😂😂😂😂

@akshithmanjunath8557

1y↑25

I don't think I ever saw a mirror in Star-wars Saga. Like for real. Not even in a single clip.

@vhawk1951kl

1y↑2

Busy lying to some other idler

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@mandelbraught2728

1y↑884

My suspicion that as a science educator, James recognized an emergency lol. Plus he squeezed in some chirality as a bonus! As always, I'm grateful for the Action Lab putting out the good info.

@BariumCobaltNitrog3n

1y↑8

Pretty short comment considering you could go on forever.

@DragonOfTheMortalKombat

1y↑12

We are evolving backwards.......................................... Thanks Social Media.

@darklordflash2117

1y↑3

what is happening to people ?

@Moct3zoom

1y↑5

I used to think he cringed too much to some basic science facts when explained and personally found that a bit disturbing, now I understand the meaning of his constant cringing to basic science facts...

@jluck1590

@@DragonOfTheMortalKombat No, it's the liberal Marxism that is designed by KGB agents to infiltrate a country and destroy it from within. Morals, Education, Family Values, etc etc is destroyed to overthrow the country. Social media is just one tool being used.

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@minacapella8319

1y↑251

I love that this goes from "let's show you how the mirror can see this thing" into "if you ever end up in a mirror universe YOU WILL DIE" so casually

@6fingers_gaming

1y↑2

😂

@lyghtkruz

1y↑6

Yeah, it got dark fast 😅

@russellzauner

1y↑7

my molecules inverted when I went in so I just match the reflections of the food

@kevinknight777

7w↑2

I literally live in this world and have slowly started documenting jt.

@aryasaktiflister_aw

1y↑121

I did not expect a biochemistry ending to an optical physics video. Great content

@xavier9739

40w

good one😂

@soot.mp3

43w↑66

I will NEVER understand how Action Lab can start a video with a simple question that I already know the answer to, and end up unlocking a new part of my brain with something I never even contemplated existing. I'm so glad I subscribed to this channel.

@Natural_Power

1y↑3.6K

He's so friendly, kindly answering such a dumb question

Edit: My God people are still adding replies to this comment after 2 months, mainly along tbe lines of "this comment is the dumb thing"
Please realise it's the top comment on a science video

@salpertia

1y↑218

Humanity is doomed

@MarkAhlquist

1y↑281

It's only dumb to people who already get it. I remember being young and playing with mirrors, and being mystified. I love that kids have these videos now!

@vit.budina

1y↑259

@@MarkAhlquist I think I'd be totally fine with that if the people oblivious to this simple fact were children, but seeing that they are grown adults, you can't blame the person above calling them dumb. It's nice that they are curious, but when you post something like this on the internet, you have to expect to be called dumb by some people. Also, the people in the video acted like it was some kind of magic or something, while an average person their age would at least try to think about why things are that way.

@MarkAhlquist

@BlackboardIdeas You're not wrong. ( I'm older, they look like kids to me.)
I'm all for cutting u.s. defense budget and spending it on education instead, but u.s. is run by a handful of sociopathic billionaires so, oh well.

@Valcuda

1y↑149

@@vit.budina Yeah, the fact it was adults asking it, just makes it go from "Child mystified by mirror" to "Grown adult doesn't understand mirrors"

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@shrimpbisque

1y↑462

The book The Boy Who Reversed Himself by William Sleator also explores chirality for part of the story. In the book, the main character makes friends with a boy at school who can enter the fourth dimension, and during her first visit to the fourth dimension, she gets flipped around and comes back to the third dimension as a mirror image of herself. In her mirror state, she discovers that everything she tries to eat or drink tastes terrible (except for ketchup, oddly enough), because her molecular structure is flipped with respect to that of the food. She's able to flip back before going too hungry, though, and most of the rest of the book is her exploring the fourth dimensional world with the boy.
I definitely recommend reading the book, if you can find it. It's written at a middle-school-ish reading level, but does a great job exploring the idea of a fourth (and even higher!) physical dimension.

@solandri69

1y↑13

"Technical Error" (aka "The Reversed Man") by Arthur C. Clarke is an earlier story (1950) with a person flipped via the 4th dimension.

@rippedtorn2310

1y↑19

sounds great but isnt it strange we all think mirrors flip the image ???? They dont .They only reflect back exactly what we show them .

@mikael9325

1y↑10

@@rippedtorn2310 That's just semantics. You can say that it does and it doesn't.

@wecirclethesky

1y↑3

Ah! Ana and kata, the other two directions! I used to love William Sleator's books!

@monad_tcp

1y↑12

I would be worried about being flipped inside out, which is a valid rotation in the 4th dimension

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@Plaegu

1y↑4

Idk how you stayed so calm…. I literally lost it and face Palmed when I saw these videos trending.

@aviccilostboy1755

1y↑6

i had a similar MIRROR situation in this all marble bathroom.
the light in the room would be reflected by all the slabs of marble except where the grout was
so in effect i had DARK shadows being reflected , it was kinda eerie
they looked like shadows but were actually less light being reflected by the dull grout.

@TEWU

1y↑470

At the same time, I absolutely adore how simply and calmly you explained this, and I cannot belive such a trivial question makes so many people confused...

@Bro-vs5mk

1y↑45

I thought this whole thing was an April fools thing but no people actually didn’t pay attention in school or even research things on their own time

@marcus8710

1y↑8

Thank goodness. My forehead crunched up painfully when I realized what was boggling those poor ladies.

@BombaJead

1y↑6

@@Bro-vs5mk My guess is that most are faking it for views, or at least l hope so.

@CHRodz

1y↑4

A view into the current state of intelligence and education sadly...

@wifegrant

1y↑13

@@CHRodz I believe light and refraction was covered in 6-7th grade. However, with no education this should be pretty simple. What they teaching them kids in the US? Spend 3-4 times more than the European average on education...and people freaked out by mirrors.

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@AnthonyBeGymin

51w↑6

Love that you work for Vandelay Industries and still have the time to research such important topics.

@thebsmith820

41w↑1

yass someone else gets the reference lol

@duprie37

52w↑9

Whooah that was such an awesome fact about how chirality would affect your body in the mirror world! I was not expecting that! Nice job 👏

@victoriajeanleslie3116

1y↑607

I love how you extended this to a discussion of chirality, very cool

@westonding8953

1y↑2

It’s genius!

@arifbagusprakoso2308

Yup, that's unexpected.

@COL3A1

Some D-amino acids are toxic or trigger an immune response or anaphylactic shock because they are present in bacteria.

@zakirreshi6737

That time our body will be so that it will accept those mirror images biomolecules only.

@_just_looking_thank_you

And to introduce me to my newest phobia. 🤦‍♂️

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@ChadKapper

1y↑699

You always do a fantastic job of explaining things! Instead of just shaking your head, and thinking people are idiots, you take the time to explain things in a very digestible way.
Thank you!!

@carlkenner4581

1y↑12

But he did subtly call them fat, and say they needed Factor. lol

@inxomnyaa

1y↑8

whilst this is true, i am pretty sure most people still didn't get it

@ellisfrancisfarros3935

1y↑3

@@carlkenner4581 i skipped the sponsor segment but went to watch it after reading this.

@eliseoramirez1691

1y↑4

Butt can our mirrored selves digest thisinformation🤔🤔

@cd23

1y↑9

Can't explain why gum is $6

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@TeamKillerCody

51w↑2

You’re a saint for not just calling these people stupid and actually explains what’s happening here.

@firebert123

11w↑1

he's a great educator. Like, I know most of us know why its reflecting but will have a hard time explaining it beyond "it just will" or "it just does". I also appreciate him re-creating the expieriment even though we all KNOW it's going to have the same outcome. Scientific Method at it's best!

@Klimbo93

1y↑1

Great side story about chirality. First part was quite obvious to me, but also interestingly presented with lasers and lidar

@RCassinello

1y↑142

Additional note to point out that chirality is how some artificial sweeteners work. The tongue can still sense a distorted version of sweetness from the tail end of the "reverse" sugar molecule, but the whole molecule itself can't be digested, and passes through the intestines like fibre. Which is why sweeteners can also cause diarrhoea.

In fact, in the mirror universe, all food would do this to you - so you would in effect end up dying of the shits. :)

@bsadewitz

1y↑2

Of course it can be digested. It will be broken down to its constituent amino acids eventually. (In the case of aspartame).

@bsadewitz

1y↑1

In the case of those that are digested, I don't think chirality is the issue. Xylitol isn't even chiral, IS metabolized, and can cause the same sort of GI distress.

@litetaker

1y↑13

The mirror image version of our cells should be able to process mirror image version of the proteins no? The receptors etc in the cells are all mirror imaged and should be able to connect with the mirror image version of the proteins and other food molecules... So the mirror image version of you will survive. But the real you will die of the shits.

@casadelosperrosstudio200

42w

@bsadewitz I remember using DL Phenylalanine supplements back in the 80’s.... two versions in one pill. Perhaps at least some of the mirror world molecules would behave similarly, having slightly different effects than our food if digestible at all.

@bsadewitz

42w↑1

@@casadelosperrosstudio200mirror world would be the same because e everything is mirrored (?)

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@treyramirez9932

1y↑242

I appreciate that he knew how simple the answer was but made it seem More complex.

@frenchjamdawg

52w↑13

this answer needs to be more complex

@_S.H_

51w↑4

I agree, the answer could have been presented in a different and simpler way.

@lenaotaku5905

43w

Yes. Our eyes see what the light bounces on and that case the mirror.
We see in 3D so leaning forward we see the rest of the space in that case the reflection.

@MindlessTube

43w↑4

@@frenchjamdawgnot really If u can't explain something in a way a 6 year old would understand then U really don't fully understand it your self.

@BarkerVancity

32w↑1

the fact you need this explained at all is embarrasing
@@MindlessTube

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@cowgba

16w↑2

Phrasing it as "how does the mirror know what's on the other side of the paper" really drives home the absurdity of this whole thing. 😅

@Arkemster

51w↑1

If a piece of paper is placed in front of an object and the object is positioned in front of a mirror, the mirror can still reflect the object even though the paper is blocking it. This is because the mirror reflects light rays at an angle that allows the viewer to see the object's reflection from a different perspective.

When light waves hit the surface of the mirror, they bounce off at the same angle as the angle at which they approached the mirror. This is known as the law of reflection. Therefore, if the object is positioned at an angle where its reflection can bounce off the mirror and reach the viewer's eyes without being obstructed by the paper, the viewer will still see the object's reflection in the mirror.

In other words, the mirror reflects the light waves from the object at an angle that avoids the paper in front of the object, allowing the viewer to see the reflected image. The paper blocks some of the light waves from the object, but not all of them, and the mirror reflects the unobstructed light waves towards the viewer.

@darknight991

1y↑71

Interestingly, some chiral compounds are used as sweeteners because while they can taste equally as sweet, they don’t have any calorific value (to our bodies) or significantly less (due to enzymes still working at certain bonds) for the same reasons you described with amino acids.

@russellzauner

and that's why they mess with our bodies regulatory systems and subsequently can trigger unusual reactions that seem out of the blue - it's just our systems being confused and regulating incorrectly. Wow, that really sounds like type 2 diabetes and they weren't even eating sugar.

@cherryfruit5492

1y↑22

It can help to realize that the reflection of the gum is not coming from "behind" the paper. The mirror is flat, and the reflection is coming from the flat surface closest to you. It looks impossible if you forget that the mirror has no depth, it is flat.

@Supremax67

I only came here for the lulz. But your explanation works too

@alainmarroquin5742

this is the actual reason why people is confused, and this is the answer they need, thanks.

@Zurpanik

52w↑7

That was not a dumb question at all! It's wonderful to see a human become fascinated by nature and find it mysterious! It's a feeling I go for all the time. When you go deep enough, every question is silly and brilliant at the same time

@jadedrealist

33w

So, I'm assuming if the paper was thick enough or wide enough it would block the reflection because it would interfer with the reflective angle needed to see it?

@austinmoore245

1y↑46

This is the same reason why your reflection in a spoon is upside down. If you look at the tip of the spoon, the angle that it's reflecting the light is towards your chin, and the bottom of the spoon is pointed towards your forehead. Repeat that over the entire surface of the inside of the spoon and you get your upside down image. Which also happens to be reflected opposite to a regular mirror from right to left. You can test this by touching one of your cheeks and see your reflection touch the opposite cheek.

@russellzauner

1y↑1

What's in the mirror if there is no visible light?

@austinmoore245

1y↑3

@@russellzauner I don't know for sure, but the fact that you can see heat signatures with a thermal camera in a mirror would mean that the mirror reflects infrared light as well as light in the visible spectrum.

@Kelly_Jane

52w

@@austinmoore245 And here I would have imagined the mirror universe would be cold. Visible-spectrum Bias at its finest.

@karma4U2

52w↑2

There is no spoon. It is not the spoon that bends light, it is only yourself.

@Znatnhos

1y↑92

I'm just impressed you explained this without any condescension at all.

@holywatergum6890

Totally

@Max_Jacoby

1y↑5

Ikr, I would facepalm at least

@o0o-jd-o0o95

1y↑3

I personally think the condescension is a much needed thing. It's like telling a fat person that they're not fat and they're perfectly fine when in fact it looks like they're gonna have a heart attack every time they try to move. Sometimes feelings need to be hurt if in fact you care about these people

@chrisleggatt3240

1y↑6

@o0O-JD-O0o There are many people reading this that wish to respond, but they don't care enough about you to do so.

@drob128

1y↑15

@@o0o-jd-o0o95 There are better ways to convey those ideas than condescension. This video is a good demonstration.

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@zellodine4708

Thank you for this video. The laser pointer really helped.

@giovangonzales4230

38w

This went a whole other direction I didn’t anticipate😮 awesome

@7585luiz

1y↑48

Some people did not go to school, but most likely general education fails in most part of the population

@AerialAge

1y↑12

you need to go to school to know how mirrors works ? they just need to turn on the brain and go off social media .

@_BangDroid_

TikTok is the problem, it's designed to turn westerners into medieval peasants who think basic science is sorcery

@Valcuda

@@AerialAge yeah, I was never taught exactly how mirrors worked, yet a bit of experimentation, and I realized "Hang on! A mirror kinda acts as a window to a flipped version of the world!"

@jelly.212

1y↑1

As if you are so smart lol

@whyamiwastingmytimeonthis

27w

They were likely homeschooled

@ashtronut676

1y↑217

i love how you take small minded questions seriously and put them into perspective (no pun intended) and then even manage to connect it to interesting facts of nature! you're a real scientist ❤

@thedislikebutton1907

and make money...

@ashtronut676

1y↑31

@@thedislikebutton1907 we all need to, don't we?

@gangstaboy9387

1y↑11

@@thedislikebutton1907yeah he should do this for free just for people like you. That's the only way how he can prove to the world what a good person he is

@jcmurr2669

1y↑14

The fact that she wanted to know and then asked the question literally makes her smarter than anyone who thinks its a small minded question. In fact exponentially smarter. Why is it a small minded question? Answer that question and it will back up what I said.

@ashtronut676

1y↑3

@@jcmurr2669 i disagree. if you understand how a mirror works you can easily see how that question doesn't make any sense... it just shows she's never really thought about it.

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@jethmercer2532

52w↑1

Glad i explained it correctly to my friends but not as detailed as this one 😅😅😅..well, i think people who asked this questions might have missed it during science class but at least this topic caught their attention as a refresher 😊😊

@amateur-madman3047

24w↑2

The worst part is the way people describe it as the mirror “knowing” something

@mike1024.

1y↑150

I watched the intro clip at least three times with the question "How does what know what's there?" I didn't see anything out of the ordinary at all lol. It's amazing the "quality" content that can go viral when there's kids making it and kids watching it.

@bigsmall246

1y↑30

I mean, it shows the level of intelligence of those kids, and also the state of science education in the US.

@Nulley0

1y↑4

I was like, yo just imagine the light rays, they are simple with mirrors that are flat too

@g0nzal0id

1y↑19

@@bigsmall246 they believe the mirror is sentient or what?? wouldnt it be terrifying if the object didnt show behind the paper sheet?

@glarynth

Yeah I need a little nap after that

@livebungusreaction

Same I was wondering if it showed the back of the gum I couldn’t see what was wrong lmao

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@alanbarnett718

1y↑61

I've just been re-reading Alice Through The Looking Glass. Lewis Carroll was obviously aware of just what you were telling us in the first part of this video, that the parts of the Looking Glass world that you can't see from this side are *undetermined*; but instead of filling them with blank white space he populated them with extraordinary characters and impossible events.

Don't think he knew about chirality, though...

@Signal_in_the_noise

50w↑4

Deleuze has an entire book on the work of Lewis Carroll called The Logic of Sense….probably the deepest most complex writing ever composed regarding concepts within the Carroll universe. Extremely difficult text but worth the effort if you enjoy challenging works of philosophy

@lgolem09l

13w↑1

When they were presenting the "illusion", I was just waiting for something unexpected to happen, but then... it didn't. Just completely in line with how I expected a mirror to work. Completely taken aback that people were surprised about this.

@rorymyers3050

52w

3:50 Ok THAT was actually dope!

@chriswilson1853

1y↑142

My grandmother had a very large mirror on the wall in her living room. As a child I used to spend quite a bit of time staring into it looking at the doorway behind me, the backwards stairs and the front door. I used to imagine going up those stairs beyond what I could see, and wondering if it would be different to the real world. Somehow, there was something slightly surreal
about that identical but backwards world. My guess is that it's to do with the way the brain processes that scene which is so familiar yet so different.
It's obvious to me that this is what influenced Lewis Carroll to write Through the Looking Glass.

@organist1982

1y↑3

I had similar thoughts as a child! Of course, you could just take a hand mirror up those stairs and into the other rooms to see what they would look like in a mirror image (or cell phones in selfie mirror mode).

@mx.yellow

1y↑6

one time, my sister changed apartments on the same building and she got a room on the other side of the building and when I went to visit her my brain was a little confused as to why this felt so familiar yet so foreign to me lol
it took a while to process it was just the same place but everything was flipped

@larryroyovitz7829

1y↑1

Liminal spaces.

@OneEyedJacker

All the physics in that reflected world are not the same as the original world.

@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman

@@OneEyedJacker damn, so I could be op there?

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@winterburden

1y↑11

Spock is my favourite Star Wars character- so fascinatingly logical! 🤩

@samhodge7460

1y↑1

Back then, it was pretty progressive for a TV character to be half-Vulcan and half-Jedi

@sprshb1852

47w↑1

The fact people don’t know that eggs are big enough to reflect light at a shallow angle across the mirror making it visible at those angles astounds me.

Like if you put a sticker, sure the mirror doesn’t show it because the light reflected off of it doesn’t hit the mirror no matter which way you look at it.

An egg (or any other decently big object) if you imagine light shining off of it as a bunch of lines, does contact the mirror at certain angles allowing you to see them AT those angles.

This is why smaller objects require a shallower angle, because they reflect off the mirror at only those position.

@icntsywhtiwnt2

41w

If you hung a string from the part thats reflecting it to the container it becomes super clear why it's being reflected.

@Consistentguy_10

1y↑108

I love the way you said "never go into the mirror."
It had a lot of humour in it.👌🏻

@stanleybochenek1862

Matrix

@12saltstar

1y↑1

I was just trying to find this comment

@maxttk97

Yeah he just can't hold it in😂

@AlteredStateGaming

1y↑101

I've been fascinated with mirrors and how they work ever since I was little and had a hand mirror sitting on the floor. I wondered how I was able to see things reflected at such strange angles. I always appreciate your videos and explanations!

@paulaharrisbaca4851

1y↑8

You sound like the kind of kid who would hang upside down over the side of the sofa and imagine walking on the ceiling the way I did.... or looking at a painting and wondering was around the bend in a river (for example) in a landscape painting my mom used to hang over the same sofa and I'd gaze at it for minutes on end inventing various places the bend in the river might go to, most of them being something like Oz. I could even imagine the sound of the leaves crunching and the smell of the muddy riverbank.

@arifbagusprakoso2308

1y↑2

You love mirrors? then I would recommend his video about "why mirror only reflect writing horizontally?". (Kinda forgot wether this video is actually ActionLab's, Veritasium's, or Steve Mould's)

@aurelienyonrac

❤ love ya

@maxttk97

Didn't you go to school?

@AlteredStateGaming

@@paulaharrisbaca4851 I feel so called out right now with that walking on the ceiling comment. 😂 But absolutely was I that kind of kid.

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@taerog

Great, video with extra fun information.

But, I am saddened by people not being able to figure this out.

@RonnieJamesOsbourne

52w↑1

Like all of his content,
The Action Lab had us so intrigued about the topic,
I nearly missed his comedic, yet brilliant shirt!

Art Vandelay, of Vandelay Industries.
The best latex "importer" and "exporter" in the business!
😂🤣😂

@AnkerPeet

1y↑32

I think one reason this was so confusing to these kids is because they are used to seeing a similar effect on their phone’s screen using the selfie camera.

The main difference is your phone generates that image from a single frame of reference, but a mirror essentially has infinite frames of reference.

@chrism3784

1y↑2

yes. growing up in the age before camera phones, I can easily see how you can see the pack of gum where they were standing.

@Fipsh

1y↑15

Honestly, the fact you had to answer this question really says something about people's education.

@rachelhutchinson5464

1y↑2

yes! theres a huge difference in education quality in the US. It could also be that the students didnt fully understand or didnt have too much care for this small sect of science and it didnt get committed to memory. We are all so different and beautiful, and I love seeing people learn and grow in these things!

@Fipsh

1y↑1

@@rachelhutchinson5464 🤨

@sheshasaibabagujjari3481

@@rachelhutchinson5464 are you serious? Are you justifying the dumbness of these people? I am pretty sure a beluga whale with no degree can understand how this works. It's common sense not even science. Mirrors are so simple. If you can look at something through mirror, that means light is falling on it and reflecting. Simple as that. And without even knowing anything I love how everyone assumes they are from US 😂

@NelsonClick

51w

I'm going to have to watch this again. I'm not getting it. This has genuinely thrown me. LOVE IT!

@amymonroe7184

I love your Vandalay Industries shirt!! Also, thanks for the great content.

@BuffaloBilliam

1y↑296

I'm not sure if I should be thankful this is out there, or sad that it needs to be.

@jcmurr2669

1y↑52

Well if you think its sad that it needs to be that would be a bad thing. Any person who feeds a hunger for knowledge they dont have is ALWAYS a good thing. The fact that what any of us know is always much less than what we dont know. There is so so so much more that people know then there is things that we do know. So thinking someone is dumb for asking a question is dumb. Smarter people do not overestimate how smart they are. That is something that dumb people do. You had a good comment and I think you know the answer to it. Peace!

@huzzzer6083

1y↑2

@@jcmurr2669 Well said

@sweetreamer5101

1y↑14

@@jcmurr2669 Nah, there are in fact stupid questions. Someone who can't understand this mirror example innately is never going to use their knowledge to create anything of value (unless they're like, 5 years old). Personally, I think adults like this should be put on boats and left to drift into the ocean; or airdropped into Australia.

@russellzauner

1y↑6

I'm sad that people are feeling pretty smug when sometimes what's behind the paper isn't what you think (it's just what you see). If nobody questions what they see, then nothing new is discovered, and if you have been told what a thing is by someone else then your cognitive bias is unavoidable when coming up with "your own" result. We can look, but we still just assume. We can look behind the paper, without moving. Maybe there is something we didn't expect there.

Ghost imaging (also called "coincidence imaging", "two-photon imaging" or "correlated-photon imaging") is a technique that produces an image of an object by combining information from two light detectors: a conventional, multi-pixel detector that doesn't view the object, and a single-pixel (bucket) detector that does view the object.[1] Two techniques have been demonstrated. A quantum method uses a source of pairs of entangled photons, each pair shared between the two detectors, while a classical method uses a pair of correlated coherent beams without exploiting entanglement. Both approaches may be understood within the framework of a single theory.[2]

@otallono

@@jcmurr2669 they're making viral videos trying to make people question something that they most likely understood otherwise. People are being fooled in to thinking a mirror is not just a flat plane reflecting light but some kind of 3 dimensional space, that is why it's sad. If you first thought that the reflection was BEHIND the object rather than next to it, that's extremely sad and an indication of a drastic dumbing down of society. You've got to admit, when everyone's face is glued to their smart phones all day, they'll probably lose touch with reality. We didn't have that problem so much a decade ago. If these were children, then you'd have a point and I'd agree.

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@bugoobiga

1y↑10

0:35 the tiktok videos are just low key flexing of their $6 gum

@thischannelwasdeleted8450

Lol

@darkblade51224

1y↑1

I immediately knew the answer to this it's perspective of the mirror reflects your own vision meaning it reflects in the way that you're looking at it which is why the reflection of the gum is not visible until you move the way you're viewing to the side allowing it to reflect it. It's simple perspective

@tusharyoungster7732

1y↑50

If every school has a science teacher like you.....there would be more scientists in world

@inside_us936

1y↑1

Dia sudah menjadi guru. Tanpa terbatas institusi sekolah. Hanya membuka Youtube, anda langsung dapat belajar. Meskipun secara kasar.

@Quantum_mechanica

@@inside_us936 okay?

@yuriwolfvt

I wanted to be a scientist, then I learned it's all paid for and if you find something that doesn't go with the General consensus, you will be shut out.

@Axlken214

1y↑3

Whahaha, I imagine my science teacher promoting something every 10 mins in class.

@Chaddilaculus

1y↑277

Great video as always! It is a little disheartening how the educational system has failed so badly. I’m pretty sure this information (minus the chemistry bit) was taught in science 101. So unfortunate that the schools are failing kids upwards (letting them into the next grade without meeting the required criteria) as a result of parents getting personally offended when they’re told that their kid failed to learn the material. It’s a good thing channels like Veritasium are around to pick up where schools come up short!

@probablysomeguy4806

1y↑27

Some schools are no longer teaching evolution in their classrooms so I’m sure this will get worse.

@PADARM

Didn't you hear the news? now the new trend is not the flat earth but the mirrors are fake and UN and NASA are behind them

@Havron

Sadly, all according to plan by those political entities who stand to profit from a voting base unable to think for themselves.

@CommanderNissan

1y↑10

I don’t remember this from elementary science, but you do learn it in high school physics.
Elementary science is much more basic fundamentals like the water cycle.

@ThatsMySkill

1y↑9

@@CommanderNissan i mean i learned in elementary that on a shiny surface, the angle of incidence is the same as the angle of reflection. thats all i needed to know and my brain just did the rest. i find it mind boggling that people actually dont understand how a mirror works.

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@kobayashimaru8114

42w

I'm kind of surprised (ok maybe not surprised) that not everyone figures this out soon after noticing the "trippy" effect. Kind of like "why don't mirrors reflect vertically?"
The best part was moving through the lidar scan into the mirror universe lol, I enjoyed that.

@Air4swan

51w

I had never heard of that mirror protein problem before. Totally rocked my world 😮

@robotdookie

1y↑8

Definitely my favorite Star Wars Novel. 😂

Seriously though, love this channel

@themysteriousunknownrevealed

1y↑1

😂😂😂 star trek wars!

@stiansoiland-reyes2548

1y↑6

Love how you added the bit about chirality on proteins and used two different technologies to visualize!

@linkbond08

50w↑1

"Never go into a mirror"
I'm glad that glass is keeping me from suddenly falling into the mirror world.

@warrentan831

48w

Don't get pulled by mirror monsters

@zer0nix

1y↑5

The explanation would have been easier with a diagram showing an angle of reflection and how it intersects with a straight line to the object in the mirrored world

@onurshenol

1y↑3

3:44 just imagine how we would be shocked and thrilled if we saw the drawers on the other side

@DTLRR

52w

How did you create the 3D view of the room?

Did you use some software or was it something else?

@voovvvv

I just realized how lidar works with mirrors. It simple measures distance to real objects in the room but since the laser beam reflected the distance will be longer and it is recognized as an object behind the mirror when the mirror itself is present like a hole in the wall.

@vctrsigma

1y↑8

Wow, the food issue was what I first thought of and yet did not expect you to cover.

Mirror universe could be a fun/profitibable trip to the pharmacy. In mirror world you could buy meth over-the-counter since we use its chemical mirror, levomethamphetamine, as a common nasal decongestant.

@EGRJ

Okay, but when you'd bring it back, it would turn into regular decongestant.

@MizunoKetsuban

1y↑2

@@EGRJ If that's what happens, then the entire issue of being incompatible with mirror-image chemicals is null and void. Because what you're basically suggesting is that going into the mirror at all turns you into a reflection.

@akaya0166

1y↑16

The fact that people actually sent the video to The Action Lab asking to explain this is kind of embarrassing imo

@heybemyeyes

we are in the TikTok era of philosophers, it's hard to them to come with explanation for mundane life experiences, like how mirrors work

@_BangDroid_

1y↑1

@@heybemyeyes China is loving it

@heybemyeyes

@@_BangDroid_ hahaha great insight, let's see in 2033 when this generation gets older, what they will achieve, all thx to the algorithm

@xcoder1122

22w

Actually mirrored proteins sometimes come into existence when proteins are synthesized in a lab. Same holds true for anything synthesized in a lab that isn't symmetric and where we don't know a method to guarantee only one kind is created. This was the problem with Thalidomide (aka Contergan). The +R version of Thalidomide has a sedative effect and is otherwise relatively harmless; that's why it was sold as over the counter sleeping aid. As it also helped against nausea, it was recommended to pregnant women. The problem is that there's also the mirrored -S version, which has no desired effect but it has the undesired effect to block VEGF (Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor). And when VEGF is blocked in early fetus within the first three months of pregnancy, this has very severe consequences, as it prevents certain body parts from growing properly or from growing at all. Everything synthesized in a lab has the danger of producing mirrored versions of a product that would never appear in nature. If you synthesize sugar in a lab, 50% of the sugar will be the mirrored version, which is harmless to our body (at least from what we know as of today) but it also has no value to our body; we cannot produce any energy from that kind of sugar or transform it into something else, like fatty acids.

@illomens2766

42w↑1

People not knowing how a mirror works is incredibly depressing

@dg8620

1y↑51

Beautifully explained with undertanding and humility. Embarrassed to say i shook my head and scoffed at the original video. You sir are a gentleman and help bring the world together. Meanwhile I need to have more patience.

@Two_Ravens

1y↑13

This is one of the things I wish would get mentioned in SciFi more often. You could find a lush alien world and even if nothing was poisonous you may simply starve to death from not being compatible molecularly. It would make sense.

@somyongkim8237

37w↑1

Master Chief stepped upon the lush greenery of the Halo. He was ready to fight the Covenant and win the war. Then he starved and died because the food on the Halo consisted of D-amino acids and not L-amino acids. 👍

@brian770

52w

so many of your vids make my head hurt.....lol keep it up.

@LesArtsdelaParole

26w

The whole video is impressive, and you are an impressive person as well.

@Moriandrizzt

1y↑7

This is a much nicer way of describing this. The Lidar was a nice touch.

If someone was inverted (mirrored) like Spock would we even be able to see them?

@CommanderNissan

Well, yes. But only the side not facing us.

@gesarts3625

1y↑14

Thank you for explaining this wayyyy better than I ever could. I've been battling with people who believe the mirrors are portals and other crazy things.

@taylorkurtz1513

1y↑1

Well...they could be portals

@Rebius

1y↑12

@@taylorkurtz1513 yeah, you just have to run fast enough to get through :D

@nimphilia

1y↑2

@@Rebius severe cuts, bruises and brain damage: 🍷🗿

@zach11241

1y↑6

You didn’t run fast enough

@gesarts3625

1y↑1

@@taylorkurtz1513 please stop

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@kylespevak6781

41w

The lydar or the mirror room is pretty cool. Would make for some cool vfx

@codybitme

31w

I just want to see explanation how light works/bends... but you discussed about literaly walking inside the mirror, significance of chirality of proteins, and startrek. F*ckng amazing! 🔥

@elkudos6262

1y↑6

Exactly the question I entertained around a month ago.
I wager mirror oxygen and water would work just fine, but lack of nutrients would cause starvation sooner than prion-like inversion cascades would show their symptoms.

@ChallengeTheNarrative

One slice of pizza would not sustain energy a good duration in any case.

@chrism3784

unless you ate mirror food which would be reflected and be fine for you to eat

@MunkeeMedia

1y↑4

So could you breathe with in the mirrored space? If the air molecules are mirrored??

@SpydersByte

11w

dont think air molecules (or more specifically the oxygen, nitrogen, ect) are chiral so yes you could still breathe. I could be wrong though, Im not a chemistry expert.

@djscottdog1

45w

Is suger Chirality important to the body , would the mirored one your body can use still be sweet with out the health inpacts or would it cause problems like flomidamide

@chrispysays

51w

Ray/path tracing technology in video games actually helped me understand this😺

@crabby7668

1y↑6

Fascinating video. I never knew that lidar could measure behind a mirror. Does this mean that there is potential for lidar images to be incorrect if there is a lot of reflective material in the measured area?

@Gelca510

1y↑15

That's really interesting about mirror image food. I never really thought about that. It was really cool to see what it would look like in the mirror side ❤❤❤

@maxttk97

Yeah the mirror image food thing was smart.

@limitbreak2966

1y↑1

5:39 BRUH. I was so confused why Spock was in Star Wars but then realized you called Star Trek, Star Wars.

@AndrewPolakow

"Never go into a mirror" "beware of false horizons"
Edgar Allan Poe had a real hatred of mirrors.

@bradserfass4710

1y↑5

That last bit about the mirror image proteins made the whole video worth watching, I already understand mirrors but I never knew about the mirror image proteins thank you for always making educational and interesting videos

@kybrancaccio

1y↑16

If you care to show an exception to this, (one in which you CAN read writing on a paper facing a mirror) Simply use 2 inch thick glass with the reflective coating on the back of the glass. Now you will be able to read some of the text on the page facing the mirror.

@EqualsThreeable

1y↑5

yeah but thats the same thing as holdin the piece of paper 2 inches away from a regular mirror

@frtjhfdrrjhbbhhhht56

I love physics, so I love you too.
Thank you so much for your service.

@supahmariostyle

1y↑3

Nobody should feel stupid for asking questions. What's important is your strive for learning.

No question is dumb to ask.

@thatguy5525

1y↑11

4:29 I love how he decided to address the original question (which could be answered by a 5th grader), then turns it into an actually interesting video.

@LightStrikerQc

1y↑11

1:00 Looks like a dumb question at first... and at second, and third... Yeah, still a dumb question. Gee. Slow day in science.

@coder2143

1y↑3

Asking about seemingly simple things is how we learn more about the world.

@LightStrikerQc

1y↑1

@@coder2143 I guess, if only people were listening to the answers.

@fishvodka

42w

i legit thought that when you started in about food in the mirror world that you were going to talk about Factor (the sponsor) as second plug for them

@TheJOVVA

51w↑1

I instantly and perfectly understood mirrors from the moment I shot the Duke Nukem 3D Freezethrower from around the corner in the mirror to freeze the monster on top of the toilets.

@Lampe2020

1y↑36

If you could enter a mirror's image you wouldn't notice ANYTHING weird, as you yourself would get mirrored as well. This means that looking back makes things look mirrored but you and words you see and proteines you consume would be in the relatively right orientation again.
But luckily you can't get into any mirror because there's always the mirrored version of you which presses you back out exactly as hard as you press into the mirror.

@stephenclark6236

Stupid mirror-me! Get out of my way!

@mjmulenga3

1y↑7

I like the thought that the mirrored version presses you back out of the mirror.

@Lampe2020

1y↑2

@@mjmulenga3
That's (I think) also how many animals see that (humans are also animals but they live differently to most other species), just another one of them pressing them back.

@k_tess

1y↑1

I don't think that's true. From what I understand just inverting the chirality of every chemical and protein in our body, the chemistry would no longer function correctly.

@chalichaligha3234

1y↑5

@@k_tess If everything is inverted it should all still work. It's when there's a chirality mismatch that problems arise.

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@lucasthech

1y↑3

5:01 YES chirality! I learned that with Mr. White, great chemistry teacher!

@ghiansudelo2590

This went from a mirror image to eating isomeric foods. Ingenious way to sell those meals.

@invader_jim2837

38w

"You can eat things like normal, but you'd keep feeling hungry like you're never getting enough food."

Oh shit, I live inside a mirror.

@weawou

1y↑22

HOW DOES THE MIRROR KNOW?! Time to pull out the lasers 😎

@Tocinos

18w

It looks like it's "behind" the paper, but it's actually off to the side where the light from the gum pack reflects... Exactly how it should work...

@davidfulton179

1y↑3

Did you you PolyCam lidar? They seem to be improving the tech year to year with better resolution and a general reduction in artifacts (which I'm kind of sad about because artifacts add a layer of surreality that I enjoy!)

When I was a kid, and before I discovered fun, I used to like to hold a hand mirror up to the wall mirror and see how far into infinity I could see. It still kind of blows my mind.

@FlorinArjocu

I wonder what phone and app that was, too.

@steps2psychosis

1y↑5

Of all the possible horrors of a mirror dimension I really didn’t expect starvation but the more you know.

@jcgreenenc

52w

Nice little tie-in to left & right handed proteins 👍

@odal6770

There is a very simple, even if completely unorthodox, explanation. The mirror sees the obstacle the way it sees other objects. The mirror shows everything in front of it. It does not show an object through an obstacle, but behind the obstacle. Try explaining that with the wave or the particle theory of light!
edit: in fact, that is exactly what Poisson's spot is supposed to be: the image of a light behind an obstacle.
edit 2: it is the same principle as what makes people (and animals) able to see a stealth plane invisible to the radar, under the same circumstances., We do not see because of reflected light. In fact, reflected light blinds us.

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