• Question: What would it look like if you were inside of a spherical mirror?

    Asked by theepicpotatoe to Joseph, Colm, Eoin, Lauren, Stephen on 15 Nov 2013. This question was also asked by rb22.
    • Photo: Joseph Roche

      Joseph Roche answered on 15 Nov 2013:

      Very good question. I think it would be deeply uncomfortable.

      If you didn’t have a light with you it would be very dark. If you did have a light you might just see yourself expanded and distorted in all directions.

      This would be a much easier question if humans were spherical.

    • Photo: Stephen Scully

      Stephen Scully answered on 18 Nov 2013:

      I never thought about this before. Great question. Well as Joseph said it would be very dark. It would be so dark that you would not even be able to see a hand in front of your face. Unless you had a light, in which case you would see a weird version of yourself reflected to infinity in all directions.

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