Theoretically speaking, if two eternally-sized mirrors faced each other with absolutely nothing in between...?

Question

and absolutely no objects or matter around, what would they reflect? (Each mirror contains no edges and goes on like a plane, forever in all directions.)

Ah, guys, thank you so much, I feel good about asking this question! Yes, indeed, this is all very interesting. I asked my science teacher once and I think I gave her a headache and frustration.

Answer 1

Mirrors reflect light.
There would need to be some type of light between the mirrors (traveling in an appropriate direction [i.e. not parallel to their surfaces]) in order for the mirrors to reflect it.

But this question is similar to,
"If a tree fell in the woods and no one was around to hear it, would it make a sound?",
since if there is no matter around for the mirrors to reflect, there is no matter around to observe the reflections either.

Answer 2

With no intrusive light source, nothing. Darkness.
With a light source--possible as long as the mirrors are not pressed up against each other, in which case they would form a solid form, as incapable of "reflection" as the cells within your own body--they would "reflect" one another. It would appear that "nothing" was being "reflected"--since the reflected surface would appear to be the actual surface.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Hi. Actually, if there is truly nothing in between the two infinite mirror surfaces then there is vacuum. But a vacuum has energy (look up "vacuum energy") and as a result some of this energy can be reflected. Not sure if you could "see" this energy because it is not light, but the question does give us something to think about. Thanks!

Answer 5

Theres no light entering between the mirrors unless light is going through the back side of the mirrors...this hurts to think about this. If you had a candle inbetwee them, it would get really bright in there...but there would be know way to see it because there is nothing in between the mirrors.

Answer 6

How do mirrors reflect? Through light.

If there is nothing, including light, there is no reflection. It would just be blank glass, I guess.

Actually, no matter what, they'd still reflect nothing. If they each have no border, they can't be depicted as something, because there is nothing to show each other.

can you see somthing if it has nothing to depict itself? No! It's basically invisible.

mirror nothing--> mirror
mirror <--nothing mirror

nothing reflects, nothing is shown

Answer 7

there only one problem i can see with this question and that is the mirrors have matter which gives off heat in most cases and so i would say they would be reflecting ir light.

Answer 8

It is too perplexing to think about. I look forward to seeing what people think, but if there was nothing in between them there would be no light and therefore nothing to reflect, I suppose it would just be black.

Answer 9

I was standing behind the guy who patented those mirrors at the patent office.

I went to the Patent Office to register some of my inventions.

I went to the main desk to sign in and the lady at the desk had a form that had to be filled out. She wrote down my personal info and then asked me what I had invented.

I said, "A folding bottle."

She said, "Okay, what do you call it?"

I said "A Fottle."

"What else do you have?"she asked me.

I said "A folding carton."

"And what do you call it?"

I said "A Farton."

She snickered and said, "Those are silly names for products! And one of them sounds kind of crude."

I was so upset by her comment that I grabbed the form and left the office without even telling her about my folding bucket.

Yours: Grumpy

Answer 10

Well with nothing in between there would be no light waves meaning they would reflect nothing