Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site kontron.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!pesnta!pertec!kontron!steve From: steve@kontron.UUCP (Steve McIntosh) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: Yet Another Flaky Paradox Message-ID: <235@kontron.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Jun-85 11:36:02 EDT Article-I.D.: kontron.235 Posted: Thu Jun 13 11:36:02 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Jun-85 05:47:03 EDT References: <5377@tektronix.UUCP> <53@rtp47.UUCP> <206@kontron.UUCP> <64@rtp47.UUCP> Organization: Kontron Electronics, Irvine, CA Lines: 29 > > The whole point of this so-called "paradox" is that the initial > statement, "When you look in a mirror, the image you see is reversed > left to right", is in error. My conclusion is that the above mentioned > "good authority" should be sent in for routine maintenance. :-) > -- > Wayne Throop at Data General, RTP, NC > !mcnc!rti-sel!rtp47!throopw *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH A MIRROR *** What I was referring to was a set of experiments done (someplace) with various types of optical systems that people would wear until they got used to it. One device flipped everything right to left, one flipped things up and down, one did both, some did kelidescope tricks, and so on... Volunteers would wear these things FOR WEEKS and eventually their minds would get used to what the eyes saw, and everything would go back to what they learned was normal - all they felt was that they were wearing some heavy glasses. My motives in placing what was obviously a silly response were the hopes that someone could point me to this research, which I read once upon a time and dont remember where. (And the fact that I wasn't yet up to my coffee quota that morning.) [[I'm a Hacker! Not a psychologist! :- ]]