{"id":13984,"date":"2013-08-12T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=13984"},"modified":"2013-08-12T03:00:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T08:00:08","slug":"more-mirrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13984","title":{"rendered":"More Mirrors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last post <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13979\">I explained<\/a> that mirrors do not flip left and right, and the example (also used in the Feynman video) was seeing an image of yourself.<\/p>\n<p>I thought of another example \u2014 written words. They look backwards in a mirror as well, but if a mirror doesn&#8217;t flip left and right, how can that be? As I demonstrate, it&#8217;s because we always rotate whatever the words are written on. If we don&#8217;t do the rotation, the words are unchanged.<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/keC7_kY_xC4?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/keC7_kY_xC4?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<p>(I apparently started talking a second or two before the recording actually began, but this isn&#8217;t Hollywood, so I only did one take)<\/p>\n<p>It may be a little tough to see the uninverted image in the mirror in the tiny youtube video, so here&#8217;s a still<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2013\/08\/Ruler-mirror.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/files\/2013\/08\/Ruler-mirror.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"195\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13989\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/08\/Ruler-mirror.jpg 504w, http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2013\/08\/Ruler-mirror-300x116.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last post I explained that mirrors do not flip left and right, and the example (also used in the Feynman video) was seeing an image of yourself. I thought of another example \u2014 written words. They look backwards &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13984\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}