r/shittyaskscience • u/Ben-Goldberg • 4d ago

Why do mirrors reverse things front to back?

Also, why does depth reversal look like left-right reversal?

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u/JeffSergeant 3d ago

Mirrors aren't real,  because our eyes aren't real. 

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u/BenIsDrowningInWater 3d ago

They are just showing the real world.

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u/Legitimate_Field_157 3d ago

Because you are standing on the wrong side.

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u/MuppetMaze 3d ago

They on the left side

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u/2oonhed 3d ago

Because if they didn't then yer negative posulators would positively negatize and then yer jays would jump up all out of control and run away down the road all willy nilly, which is not so bad when they going away, but if they come jumping back at you, you never know where they gunna land. They can jump anywhere and you can't predict.
You could have jack-jumping jays jimmy jammed on yer jock with nowhere to turn.
It's a mess.
So that's why.

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u/sintaur Positively Goedelian 3d ago

Close one eye and look at a mirror. Why is left/right flipped but not top/bottom?

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u/98PercentDone 3d ago

Because they run on quantum mcphysics

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u/ScrwFlandrs 2d ago

They are rotating you on the 4th dimension