This is wierd. Why is that when you point a mirror at a mirror, you see an infinite number of mirrors that stretch on to who knows where? It almost looks as if you could climb into the mirror like a tunnel. When I was younger, I used to believe that there was another world on the other side of a mirror. An alternate dimension where everything is the same but with a minor difference. Like when you look into a mirror, you are looking at the other you. The only difference is that if you had an earring in your left ear, he has onein his right. And all text is backwards in this world. So what are some scientific theories about mirrors in relation to alternate dimensions?

This post has been edited by devin_love3: Feb 9 2008, 02:39 PM

The mirror image ends up to infinity... Just like space. What amazes me is, A tiny arrangement of 2 mirrors placed exactly opposite and parallel to each other helps us define infinity in reality.

About the Mirror Dimensions thingy, I think you are referring to Parallel universe


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_universe_%28fiction%29


Side Note:
Its said, your astral world is the real image and the world we perceive is the mirror image of the astral world. Like the reflection of tree along a river with leaves and branches at the bottom looking like its roots..

What we do and our actions (in real world) build our image/karma in the astral world which cause things in the real world. Because only then, things like luck, fate, destiny etc come in picture (according to me).

It's quite a popular idea in children's books and TV shows, and I think a lot of people quite like the idea. Mirrors seem quite magical and mystical until you understand how they work.



There are many scientific theories about dimensions we cannot see. For example, there are theories about cylindrical dimensions (as opposed to our linear dimensions, including time) which could hold extra particles we don't know exist. However, as far as I know, none of those theories have anything to do with mirrors.

Like OpaQue said, you are most likely thinking of parallel universes rather than alternate dimensions. There are theories that state that, at every single point in time there are many universes covering every single particle in every possible location and state. That is a colossal number of universes for each single moment in time. It just so happens that we go through the apparently logical route, It would be entirely possible, yet rather improbable, that, as you crossed the road in New York, for example, you could turn into a pomegranate and end up in the River Thames. As every possible option would exist simultaneously, that would include a universe where everything was exactly mirrored - where every particle was apparently swapped into a mirrored position.

some movies kind of make mirrors seem like a window to another dimension... or at least i think so... like say for instant, in movies ghost always appear in the reflection within the mirrors! or do they just to it because its scary to suddenly find out there is somebody watching behind you :-O

the thing i find is that the mirrors seems to curve off to the bottom left or right so i try to shift myself to get them exactly straight, never works though!

What i find interesting about mirrors is the fact that if you asked someone what colour a mirror is, they would say silver, yet when we look into a mirror we see no colour, only whatever colour is being reflected... its interesting because if you look at a mirror it looks silver, but then you realize you cant see the mirror's colour just a reflection, and even if that reflection is red, the mirror is still silver...

Oh, i've read about this in some books (in spanish) that Jorge Luis Borges (very famous writer) wrote called "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" and "El Jardín De Senderos Que Se Bífurcan" where he bases the whole story about the 11th tome of an encyclopedia (11 = can be psychologially deducted as 2 mirrors facing each other) that hides the secret of a parallel universe (called Tlön) that is a mirror-copy of the world (mirror-copy meaning that if something happens in our world, the opposite will happen in Tlön) and it has a lot of references hidden in the literature like using the words "false" and "copy" (with synonyms, not directly said) a lot.

The first of these stories can be misinterpreted because theres one line that says about the "inexistent god" referring to the god that doesn't exist in Tlön, but if it doesn't exist in Tlön it does exist in our world... Many people think he is an atheist but he's not, only people who can't make something out of his stories (which are very very very complex) think wrongly of him.

I liked those books, read them in spanish class

That is really interesting.... I would love to read those books.

Moving on back to the threads subject, I have never deeply though about infinity in the mirrors, all i though about them was what I was able to see in them, because when you look at a mirror standing right in front of it you cant really see the infinite reflection because you would be blocking it from your eyesight. If you want to see many reflections you would have to view the mirror at an angle but then the reflections would be limited cause they would end at a side of the mirror. Maybe with a camera one could see all the reflections, but it would also have to be transparent. I wonder how many reflections can be seen in mirrors, and if you would need like a special microscope to see how small an image can repeat itself. Would there be a limit?

I also find the color of the mirror question really interesting... Without something being reflected in the mirror, what color would you consider it being? Is it possible?

Colour depends on the light hitting the object. For example, a 'green' object under red light would actually appear black. Following this definition, a mirror has the colour of whatever is placed in front of it.

However, most of the time, colour is defined under white light. In that case, the mirror would be defined as being white as it would reflect all of the light.

This is something i'd find myself doing in a hotel. Amazed me for the longest time that the mirrors just go on.....