It's an old riddle, with a subtle answer. Richard Feynman gave an account of his days at Princeton, where freshman were often accosted by sophomores with such questions. Part of Feynman's genius was figuring things out in advance, so that he seemed to have the answer to impossible questions almost instantly.
Hint to the answer - when you look at your image in the mirror, what is hidden from view?
Update August 15, 2016: Mathologer (a YT channel that I just discovered and to which you should all subscribe, if you love math) has a detailed video on this
I finally looked it up, and I still don't understand. Maybe I'll just smash the mirror.
Aha, that's getting warmer. But if you made a copy of yourself, turned it around, so that your right aligns with its right, you'd be looking at its back. So you need one more step to create the mirror image we're familiar with. You reverse the back and front.
LMAO
But I indeed am seeing myself as a person facing me would. If I face you and raise my right hand, I am raising the hand that is on your left.
I never said it was "an exact copy of myself", only that I am seeing myself as someone facing me would see me.
It does if you turn it sideways.
I don't think mirrors work that way... D:
The image is exactly what is on the tshirt. The shirt is printed from the wearers right to left (backwards). So that when a person coming up in front of them can read the from their left to right. (Like normal)
Look at your shirt (assuming it has writing) the writing will begin on your right side and end on your left. The mirror is reflecting that.
I mean the side not facing the mirror, usually the butt side.
Ah c'mon you're cute :-)
LOL aww :-)
xo
Very nice. So, what accounts for the difference in the way the mirror image appears to differ from what we intuitively expect to see?
