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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Yet Another Flaky Paradox
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Date: Sat, 1-Jun-85 01:35:10 EDT
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> This has more to do with clear thinking than with physics, but here goes:
> 
> When you look in a mirror, the image you see is reversed left to right.
> Why is it not also reversed in the vertical direction?
> 
> -- Carl

A mirror does not reverse left and right.  It reverses front and back.  Every
part of the object being reflected that is on the left will appear on the left
side of the image.  The same is true of the right.  The mirror image will have
the opposite *handedness* as the object being reflected, but this is because
front and back are reversed, not because left and right are reversed.
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
aka Swazoo Koolak

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