2006-11-13 04:55:39 · 10 answers · asked by Don M 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
You see a mirror in a mirror in a mirror in a mirror ......
There are various gadgets using this effect.
For instance if you put a lightbulb between the two mirrors and look throug the one way mirror you will see (depending how parallel you've managed to put the mirrors) lots of lightbulbs disappearing into infinity. I know 'cause I've done it!
2006-11-13 05:10:41 · answer #1 · answered by I Drum 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good one, well a one way mirror is nothing but a piece of glass coated with a very thin layer of the reflective coating. So it acts like a partial mirror. You might be confused about the ones you see on TV. So why doesn't the "criminal suspect" see the detectives in the next room? The answer lies in the lighting of the two rooms. The room in which the glass looks like a mirror is kept very brightly lit, so that there is plenty of light to reflect back from the mirror's surface. The other room, in which the glass looks like a window, is kept dark, so there is very little light to transmit through the glass. On the criminal's side, the criminal sees his own reflection. On the detectives' side, the large amount of light coming from the criminal's side is what they see. In many ways, it's the same as if people were whispering in one room while a loud stereo played in the other. The sound of the whisper might carry into the room with the stereo, but it would be drowned out by the intensity of the music. So if you look through a one-way mirror at a mirror, you'll see your reflection( if illuminated on both sides of the one-way mirror ) and you'll see a cascade of the mirrors but without your image in it( if your side is darkened ).
2006-11-13 20:12:30 · answer #2 · answered by SGK 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Assuming ones view through the one-way-mirror is limited to only the reflective surface of the "target" , so to speak, mirror, and nothing else, and assuming the one way mirror is of good quality and free of spherical aberration and the like, then what one would see is, virtually, nothing.
2006-11-13 05:12:51 · answer #3 · answered by trucktrout 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting question. I haven't tried it, but logically you should see nothing. Since your image cannot pass through the one-way mirror from the back side, it therefore could not reach the normal mirror, and therefore could not reflect back to you. All you would see is what is between the two mirrors - which is nothing but air.
2006-11-13 05:01:20 · answer #4 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you look through a one way mirror you will see nothing but light crystals.
2006-11-13 12:23:35 · answer #5 · answered by Marty L 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would think just the reflection of the mirror that is being held over and over again If you hold two mirrors up to each other and they keep reflecting each other over and over again.
2006-11-13 05:06:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Should depend on where the lighting is greater . . . if it is greater on the reflective side, whatever is in that room should be seen, but if there is light on the back side of the mirror, then you may pick up some images from where you are.
2006-11-13 05:06:01 · answer #7 · answered by kate 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mirrors are made by coating glass with a silver compound which is opaque so you can't see through it.
2006-11-13 10:07:30 · answer #8 · answered by DB Cash 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the bright illuminated room you see you own reflection.
At the other side is the dark room. There it seems you look through a window into the bright room.
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2006-11-13 06:26:53 · answer #9 · answered by Thermo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the reflection of the one side mirror i guess.
2006-11-13 05:04:48 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋