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From: kay@warwick.UUCP (Kay Dekker)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Yet Another Flaky Paradox
Message-ID: <2273@flame.warwick.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 06:09:51 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  5 06:09:51 1985
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In article <5377@tektronix.UUCP> carlc@tektronix.UUCP (Carl Clawson) writes:
>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
The image is *NOT* reversed left to right.  It *IS* reversed back to front.
Just spend a few minutes with pencil and paper to demonstrate this (ie, draw
a line representing a mirror, and 'reflect' an object in it - simple optics
stuff).
							Kay.


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