Tuesday 16 July 2019

reflection - A mirror room with light inside theory




Let's say there is a room that has the shape of a cube with all the walls, roof and ground made of mirrors, it is all mirrors and theoretically we managed to have light in there without a source. (Because if there isn't light, nothing is gonna be visible, and if there is a source it would just be repeated in the mirrors.)


And somehow we manage to look inside the box. What would we see inside the room?



Answer



Assuming that the light source would stay on indefinitely ( wich means that the mirrors wouldn't "absorb" the photons and the room wouldn't get dark eventually), and considering that you don't have a body, you'd see the inside of the cube reflected on every mirror of the cube and on every mirror of the reflection of the cube and so on, and so on. Wich means that you'd see yourself in some kind of cube filled with infinite cubes, or a tesseract.


tesseract


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