I am near sited. I can read a book at arms length but further than that things become a little fuzzy.
Mirrors only reflect the light from objects. Mirrors aren't near sited. If I have the mirror inside my reading distance, I should be able to read things in the mirror, that are reflected from across the room. Yet this does not happen. This is something that has puzzled me for a long time. Any and all comments are greatly appreciated. Why are things not clear in the mirror? Is there more to mirrors than we know?
2007-05-30 07:42:15 · 16 answers · asked by God!Man aka:Jason b 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Mirrors are believed to be portals to another dimesion. I can prove this is true but it doesn't help me solve my puzzle. If you don't know then go ahead and get your 2 lazy points.
2007-05-30 07:48:57 · update #1
you ever put two mirrors face to face and get that cool hall of mirrors effect going?
that sh*t's triipy.
2007-05-30 07:51:40 · answer #1 · answered by pastor of muppets 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's just because your household mirror is not perfect. There are small flaws in the surface that make it unable to perfectly reflect small quantities of light (like the light reflected by a single character of text from a book across the room).
Generally, the ability to reflect perfectly is a measure of surface smoothness.
You can make a mirror that is good enough to do that, but it'll cost you. The mirror in the Hubble Space telescope is good enough to reflect the light of objects that have never otherwise been seen. It took years to make and was incredibly expensive, however.
If you want a fun experiment, find a nice piece of flat shiny metal, and use finer and finer grades of sandpaper to polish the surface. You'll see the finer sandpaper you use, the better your metal will reflect images.
2007-05-30 14:47:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uh, dude, those things in the mirror that are being reflected back to you are being reflected back at the distance they are from the mirrror....so, if further than arms length from the mirrror, then its still gonna be fuzzy to you...
So, you should only be able to read things inside an arms length on the mirror as well....if that wasnt the case, we wouldnt need a telescope - I could just look in a mirror and see all the way to Jupiter.
2007-05-30 14:47:24 · answer #3 · answered by Athiests_are_dumb 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That light still has to travel across the room to hit your mirror. So the actual distance would be similar to if you were trying to read the object on the other side of the room without a mirror.
2007-05-30 14:47:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
A flat mirror does not operate as a lens, so would have no effect on the legibility of material at any particular distance. Spectacles, with a negative lens curvature, will deal with your problem; see an optometrist.
2007-05-30 15:02:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's got nothing to do with the mirror. YOU are nearsighted. Anything you look at that is far away (reflected or not) will still not be in focus.
2007-05-30 14:48:16 · answer #6 · answered by Resident Heretic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The mirror also reflects the space between you and it, so you reflection is, in effect, twice as far away.
2007-05-30 14:47:13 · answer #7 · answered by ZombieTrix 2012 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mirror surfaces are not perfect. They blur things a little.
2007-05-30 14:49:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
You are not reading the mirror.
You are reading the image of the book in the mirror.
Why are you asking physics questions in R&S
2007-05-30 14:47:09 · answer #9 · answered by Simon T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Uh, what does this have to do with "Religion & Spirituality?" This is a scientific question (optics, I believe), and I'm sure someone there could enlighten you.
2007-05-30 14:45:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋