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You know when you point a mirror at another mirror and it looks like there are infinite images of the reflection that get smaller and smaller? How small do you think they get and what happens at that point?

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[–] plinky@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They get darker and darker cause mirror is not superconductor, but you can calculate how small they get using angles and shit.

Assuming contrast raio of human eye of around 10000, and shittiness of mirror of 5 percent, you can see around 200 reflections total, or 100 mirrors deep

[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How can a mirror with a shittiness of 5% be real if our shitty eyes aren't real.