my question is scientific,if you place 2 mirrors facing one another?

Question

if you were to face 2 mirrors facing one another and look in them, is it possible to count the reflected mirrors? do they go for eternity or is there an actual stopping point???????????

Answer 1

Since there is some absorption of light as it goes through any medium, eventually you run out of image as each emage has fewer and fewer photons. For practical mirrors, each image is slightly distorted and as the reflections increase, the distortions increase until there is only noise and no more image. Eliminate these problems and you get infinite reflections, which is what happens in a Ruby laser, for instance.

Answer 2

there would be no stopping point but the problem would be getting the mirrors EXACTLY parallel because even a fraction of a degree would cause a curve in the reflected images thus you would eventually have a termination point when it reaches the edge of the mirror

Answer 3

you would see a reflection of a reflection. If the focus is alined and depending on the curvature of the mirror though you would be able to count the mirrors

Answer 4

There would be a point at which the reflections were so small as to be unresolvable with light in the visible spectrum. But those reflections would be too small to see with the naked eye anyway.

Answer 5

it truly is impossible for the photons to mirror from the mirror without dropping some capability interior the technique, and a few mild would be absorbed with the aid of the air. collectively as the bulb is on, the quantity of light will proceed to be consistent as long as a results of fact the bulb maintains to artwork, and the mirrors would be heat up till warmth is dissipated into the the remainder of the universe on the comparable value that it truly is being created.

Answer 6

nothing reflects perfectly, so you would eventually see darkness because each mirror reflects less and less light. If they DID reflect 100% light (hypothetically) then you would just see whiteness and no mirrors reflected.

Answer 7

If you had an infinite resoloving power then the number of images would be infinite.

However, since you don't have this infinite resolution then you would only be able to count a finite number of images.

Answer 8

The limit would be the resolution of your eye, or instrument with which you viewed the image(s), as long as you, or the instrument didn't occlude the light.

Answer 9

no there is no stopping point in theory they go on for ever

Answer 10

no