Science & Mathematics What is in each mirror when two mirrors press up against one another?

[Hodgepodge]

What is in each mirror?

 

[treeman]

Is it like just a bright light?

 

[WhyAlwaysMe]

A parallel universe?

 

[The_Big_Ship]

just pure blackness, there's no light to reflect...

 

[Whacker]

Suzi olsen

 

[Hodgepodge]

Well ok, assuming they are reflecting something and are an inch away. What's in the reflection? Don't say 'the other mirror' either . . . I'm looking for what is being reflected when a mirror reflects a reflection . . .

 

[Caesar]

An infinite regress.

 

[Rustin Cohle]

Assuming you could set it up right you would see a "tunnel" of mirrors, getting smaller with each reflection until it is either too small to see anymore or the light is too dim to create an adequate reflection.

 

[Whacker]

Suzi Olsen

 

[_JC_]

Infinite Suzi Olsens

 

[Doctor Feel]

6 suzi olsens

 

[AsianWithAFro]

Suzi Olsen= IT

 

[The OBSTacle]

Glass and paint.

 

[BarneyBent]

It would, I suspect, be impossible to trap a light between two mirrors indefinitely. For any light beam to hit a mirror and then reflect onto the opposite mirror, it would have to be travelling at an angle, however small. This angle would mean the light beam would have to bounce out eventually.

As for what you'd see in the mean time, have you ever gone into a lift with mirrors on each wall? Well, there you have your scenario (with you squeezed in between).