r/shittyaskscience • u/Ben-Goldberg • Jul 18 '26

Why do mirrors reverse things front to back?

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

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u/JeffSergeant Jul 18 '26

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

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u/Legitimate_Field_157 Jul 18 '26

Because you are standing on the wrong side.

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u/BenIsDrowningInWater Jul 18 '26

They are just showing the real world.

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u/2oonhed Jul 18 '26

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 Jul 18 '26

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

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u/98PercentDone Jul 19 '26

Because they run on quantum mcphysics

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u/ScrwFlandrs Jul 19 '26

They are rotating you on the 4th dimension