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Reflection images 3607/26/2023 This allows your brain to reconstruct a clear image. In addition, they have a very smooth surface, causing light to reflect in an orderly way. Mirrors, being shiny, reflect almost all the light hitting their surface. It is an optical illusion, a virtual image of a real object. The result is what you see in the mirror: an object that looks similar, but appears to be placed behind the mirror. But what happens if light coming from an object hits a flat mirror and is reflected (or bounced back) before it hits your eyes? Your brain, being unaware that the light was reflected, will reconstruct an image with the information it received, assuming the light traveled on a straight path from the object to the eye. The reason why you see objects is that light hitting these objects reflects back into your eyes (and then is perceived and represented as those objects by your brain). Try this activity, and be amazed by the many images mirrors can create! Before you know it, you might be inspired to create some real works of beauty. But can we create an infinite number of reflections? What if, instead of a ball, light was bouncing between two walls, which were both covered in mirrors? Do you think that could bounce back and forth forever? Imagine each light bounce added one reflection of an object in the mirror-for example, you! Would it look like there were an infinite number of "yous"? Perhaps you have noticed something like this in a fun house or a room with multiple mirrors. Can you imagine a bouncy ball that could bounce back and forth between two walls, infinitely-that is, forever? Wouldn't that be amazing?
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