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Title: This will break the universe - just need to know how
Post by: Banana on November 29, 2009, 04:30:54 PM: Ok my teacher asked me this question a while ago, but I never got the answer.

Imagine you have two large rooms separated by a two-way-mirror (also one-way-mirror). You look through the mirror to the other room, but there's a huge mirror there and you can't see it's borders. So basically you see the mirror reflecting the two-way-mirror. If you don't take into account the walls or floor or ceiling, what do you see? So let's just pretend you only see the mirror reflecting the two-way-mirror. I really can't explain it like it should be, but hopefully you understand what I mean.
Title: Re: This will break the universe - just need to know how
Post by: BizB on November 29, 2009, 04:33:54 PM: Assuming that you could get the two mirrors to be perfect and perfectly parallel, I suspect that you would just see silver.
Title: Re: This will break the universe - just need to know how
Post by: Banana on November 29, 2009, 04:41:45 PM: Quote from: BizB on November 29, 2009, 04:33:54 PM
Assuming that you could get the two mirrors to be perfect and perfectly parallel, I suspect that you would just see silver.

That could be possible. It would be fun to somehow test this. My friend actually said you could see green. He said glass always captures some of the light and glass is green. Don't know how solid that theory is.
Title: Re: This will break the universe - just need to know how
Post by: ivan on November 29, 2009, 05:23:55 PM: If there is no light source in the second room:

If the two-way mirror is perfectly efficient in blocking light in your room from passing into the other room, you would see darkness.

If the two-way mirror is not perfectly efficient, you would see yourself.

Now, if there is a light source in the second room:

If the one-way mirror is some distance from the two-way mirror, you would see some part of the room and some part of the two-way mirror reflected recursively.

The only way for you not to see any part of the room reflected is if the one-way mirror was right up against the two-way mirror, in which case you would again see darkness.

HTH
Title: Re: This will break the universe - just need to know how
Post by: jeee on November 30, 2009, 07:56:44 AM: I will ask my class.
Title: Re: This will break the universe - just need to know how
Post by: pbsaurus on November 30, 2009, 02:15:19 PM: Quote from: jeee on November 30, 2009, 07:56:44 AM
I will ask my class.

I'm like school on Saturday.
Title: Re: This will break the universe - just need to know how
Post by: Clear_Runway on November 30, 2009, 04:04:18 PM: eventually the room explodes, because it gets full of photons. :wink:
Title: Re: This will break the universe - just need to know how
Post by: scorpil on February 26, 2010, 05:24:18 PM: You've broke my mind...
Title: Re: This will break the universe - just need to know how
Post by: 12AX7 on February 26, 2010, 05:27:53 PM: Quote from: scorpil on February 26, 2010, 05:24:18 PM
You've broke my mind...
...now for your account...
Title: Re: This will break the universe - just need to know how
Post by: xolik on February 26, 2010, 06:17:38 PM: This thread is a perfect example of somebody who comes by, registers, asks a question then splits.

GET IT? SPLITS? Because the OPs user name is Banana and he left abruptly, or "split" to put it in slang, so I made a clever play of words using the OPs screen name and the slang in reference to a popular ice cream treat.

Gawd, you plebs, it's not funny if I have to explain everything to you all the time. I swear you just don't appreciate my sophisticated sense of humor. :x
Title: Re: This will break the universe - just need to know how
Post by: xolik on February 26, 2010, 06:18:21 PM: Quote from: 12AX7 on February 26, 2010, 05:27:53 PM
...now for your account...

Oh not yet. He's been nice so far and even went and made an intro post when I asked him to and to top it all off, there was no backtalk about it either!
Title: Re: This will break the universe - just need to know how
Post by: xolik on February 26, 2010, 06:19:08 PM: ITT Xolik triple posts. 8-)
Title: Re: This will break the universe - just need to know how
Post by: pbsaurus on February 26, 2010, 07:33:18 PM: I used to love watching the Banana Splits. Danger Island was awesome. Too bad they could never get away with a show like that now.
Title: Re: This will break the universe - just need to know how
Post by: Min on February 26, 2010, 08:18:59 PM: One banana two banana three banana four...

Xol, his next post better be interesting, is alls I'm sayin'. Thanks for explaining the joke. It was funny and I didn't get it at first.
Title: Re: This will break the universe - just need to know how
Post by: xolik on February 26, 2010, 08:24:39 PM: Fair enough, milady.
Title: Re: This will break the universe - just need to know how
Post by: Demosthenes on March 01, 2010, 09:37:16 AM: Xolik wins the internets!
Title: Re: This will break the universe - just need to know how
Post by: BizB on March 01, 2010, 10:24:19 AM: Do you know where the station is? You can come by during business hours and pick up your internets.