I Reflected A True Mirror In a Regular Mirror And This Happened!

In this video I show you what it looks like when you reflect a true mirror (non-reversing mirror) in a regular mirror. I talk about if the reflection truly does go on infinitely. If so what is the area of the reflected images. Is it infinite as well?
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[@wohingenau5863]

"you can even high-five yourself", finally :(

[@GunoiOrdinar]

Don't you have 2 hands anyway ?

[@josiahcharles2960]

@@GunoiOrdinar that's what I saying😂

[@kazuo5]

@@GunoiOrdinar I get the joke.. but he meant high five'ing yourself with the same hand

[@GunoiOrdinar]

@@kazuo5 i got the joke too

[@gimmforwho_]

Clapping

[@yogeshkumar9311]

*Everybody a gangsta until the real mirror reflection starts moving by itself.

[@christianheichel]

I read a Goosebumps book back in the day that did that.

[@divat10]

@@christianheichel i also read that book! I think there is also a film on it

[@christianheichel]

@@divat10 I did not know that.. I'm going to try looking that up now. 👍

[@AgentxRyan]

Chris Heichel did u find it

[@christianheichel]

@@AgentxRyan Goosebumps Let's Get Invisible. Book #6 The TV show came out the second of November 1996 based off the book man that brings me back

[@dragonrider9051]

Side note this is 2020, dont be opening portals right now.

[@dandeeteeyem2170]

🤣

[@HDestroyer787]

Yes he's only showing us what we are familiar with right now

[@marv8481]

Anyone do the “3 kings ritual”?

[@humanbeing1429]

@@marv8481 you mean the 3 kings of hell from Sabrina?

[@coolman36kmaway34]

god is gonna come out from the mirror

[@janithajayasinghe4148]

*'You can kiss yourself in the mirror, but only on the lips...'* _-Black Science man_

[@abhayprasad9580]

@@hypercept you are smart 😎😎😎

[@FireMageTheSorcerer]

@@hypercept 👍

[@ayushyavagal8178]

#ShowerThoughts

[@PotentialVermin]

I know who you're talking about! O B A M A

[@ThahaFahatAfanI]

Why are you gae?

[@TheBackyardHappens]

2020 is already bad enough without you opening portals to evil mirror worlds 😂

[@QuintarFarenor]

Who says THAT'S the EVIL world? As things go it might be the good one.

[@svampebob007]

seeing how 2020 has been, combined with slavery, ww1, ww2, isis, all the god damn constant wars... I'm pretty sure we're in the evil world, it wouldn't come as a surprise for the evil mirror world to open up a portal just to mess up their days.

[@danewblader4349]

What's a whole new world mom said that there is no such thing as a mirror world

[@thorbjrnhellehaven5766]

@@QuintarFarenor so true !!

[@Qwaziop]

@@danewblader4349 ok

[@ShawnSwander]

The reflected light reduces each reflection and is passing more and more imperfections in the glass so eventually the image would be hazy Distorted and dim and you’d have aberrations. So the equations don’t really account for this and it won’t be truly infinite eventually no useful information is transmitted. So the infinite length is more of a theoretical infinite.

[@eitaje]

Moreover, for the number of reflections to be infinite, you'll need infinite time, so clearly, during any finite time, there are finite number of reflections.

[@LifeofLeium]

I mean what you said is true

[@mitkoraichev3187]

That's because we don't have ideal conditions. Math involving infinity usually breaks down when applied to the physical world, because it's not ideal. That's why physics books' problems usually start with "assume ideal conditions".

[@NecroAsphyxia]

Also, remember, each length gets smaller and smaller. At a certain point, the length of the line falls below the plank length. At that point, QM kinda breaks down and the universe turns into a lovecraftian nightmarescape...

[@ShawnSwander]

@@mitkoraichev3187 There are limits in ideal physics as well such as a plank time and plank length being the smallest unit possible. So we should still end up with finite numbers.

[@aarin2197]

Opens KZbin KZbin : Do you want to learn a lesson in optics?

[@georgebarbos6969]

I see u made the right choice ☺️

[@-cookiezila-461]

0:09 my ipad crashed there, and I'm not lying. It actually crashed when he was talking about the harmonic series

[@dream.machine]

Oh gosh! 😂

[@nautilusgamer2797]

Lol

[@nautilusgamer2797]

If you do it by yourself well… it makes the WEIRDEST SOUND EVER! Or you will just crash

[@christmassnow3465]

And that's where my brain crashed... coincidence?

[@jimmyjames2022]

My desktop Win10 Chrome glitched there as well.

[@zulfikaraliAkbar]

It is so amazing and confusing at the same time.

[@georgebarbos6969]

Yes and No

[@cryptfire3158]

Him explaining.. Me: scratches head.. uh what?

[@RektAgarioRS]

You are such a great youtuber bro. Your channel is almost ad free and you always have interesting experiments to show! Cheers

[@jindivik321]

spell mirror: M-I-R-R-O-R say mirror: "MEEEEEEEEEEEEYRRRRRRR

[@dundermifflinity]

I always think the majority of American say Mir -like the space station. Same double-r problem with Squirrel - comes out as Squirl

[@DrunkSpider-Man]

I would love to see this behind a two-way mirror so the effect would be more apparent. Doing it normally always seems to curve it a certain direction based on the perspective of the observer.

[@dream.machine]

Thanks for posting this ActionLab! I always wanted to know how mirrors reflected and if they truly reflected into infinity... Brings back childhood memories of playing with mirrors as well! True mirrors reflecting into ordinary mirrors looked very interesting and artistic though.

[@Akknights]

Everyone: Mirror The Action lab: *Meeyer*

[@akitoyami4284]

meer

[@folddyy]

meeyrr

[@Dondlo46]

Limmy: waa

[@pierce3597]

Meer

[@TriumphEdits]

Your experiments are amazing!!!

[@trstmeimadctr]

I love this video because it combines both simple and visually interesting explanations for people who aren't well versed in science and math, but it also has a bit more in-depth explanation for people whose knowledge is more intermediate. I think it is rare for education videos to fill both of those roles well. Usually, they are either a bit simple and childish or they are very in-depth and complex.

[@909sickle]

"The answer is yes. And no." That could come in handy

[@yashjadhavyj.500subscriber6]

Wow You Have A Lot Of Cool Expirements!!! Nice Job The Action Lab👍!

[@trilexi]

You could just say : WYHALOCE ! NJTAL

[@LilCalebW]

Yea

[@gigos2]

@@trilexi Man... One of most underrated comments in freaking WORLD!!

[@trilexi]

@@gigos2 Thanks haha, I feel like a lot of people didn't understand

[@harleyspeedthrust4013]

I love these videos! Thanks for making them

[@theCidisIn]

Man this is so cool! I love how surprisingly awesome physics is! You make great vids fo sho!

[@huawafabe]

That infinity problem is interesting, it reminds me of with the coastline of an island. It's infinite if you measure it infinitely exact (fractal). But the area of the island is obviously finite. Addition: The number that you called "some constant" is actually W*H*π²/8

[@cryptfire3158]

I didn't get the horn part. You can't cover the entire surface in paint? What? Yes you can, drop your horn in a tub of paint. What am i missing?

[@huawafabe]

@@cryptfire3158 the horn is infinitely big. You'd need an infinite amount of paint for that

[@cryptfire3158]

@@huawafabe If that's the case, why does he say it has a finite volume. Certainly i'm missing something, since i can't imagine something of infinite size having a finite volume

[@vinlebo88]

@@cryptfire3158 That's the reason it is so weird. But you can get an idea of why this is possible: Imagine slicing the horn up. Each slice has an area of πr² and a circumference of 2πr. So if r becomes smaller as you progress through the horn, the area of the slices becomes smaller more quickly than the circumference. It then happens to be that the circumference decreases just slow enough that it goes to infinity.

[@huawafabe]

@@vinlebo88 it's pretty unintuitive, the easiest way is to look at it mathematically like he did. Areas that stretch out into infinity but converge csn often be finite. For example, the energy required to leave earth's gravity field is the area under a graph with that is a/r² (a is a constant). The graph never reaches zero, but the area is finite. Another example that I already mentioned in my original post: if you measure the length of an island's coastline, you mathematically get to infinity if you measure totally exact (go around every tiny stone, or even every atom etc). So the 1 dimensional thing is infinite. But the area inside this infinitely long coastline is finite and has a limit 😊

[@TheSecondVersion]

"Mom can we go see TENET?" "There's a pandemic out there. We have TENET at home." The Tenet at home: 1:00

[@jasminmarte277]

😂

[@MammaOVlogs]

wow that is way crazy and yet interesting, good job!

[@amvymavy]

Plot twist: There is actually 2 person. The other is his twins

[@gamingwithdeku9992]

Soooo cool !!! I'd love to learn more about this. Thank youuu

[@aaronholloway2]

Pretty cool! I love learning stuff like this! Please keep it up...

[@gichingamwaka6172]

I like your experiments a lot!

[@erikbrantner4295]

You have some awesome questions and answers to the mirror effects!

[@gtrmusic69]

Another fantastic video. Thanks for all your work.

[@dmitriiemelianenko8531]

I started wandering: what would a reflection of a true mirror in a true mirror look like?

[@mybluemars]

Apparently nobody cares or it is too painful to think about

[@SamuelAko]

Same as a regular mirror but the image would not be laterally inverted.

[@GabrielHerrera-tv8te]

First thing I wondered too....

[@TeamUnpro]

dunno how "true mirror" works but would be kinda dope to see an array of true mirror and regular mirror like, 100 tiles wide and 100 tiles high, where every odd tile is a regular mirror and every even tile is a true mirror would be tripper

[@dopeboi9680]

I did this about 10 years ago in my grandmas house. I didnt know about the different types of mirrors until now. Really looks like your looking into other dimensions.

[@blackbear92201]

Awesome video - thanks for posting!

[@yuhihe]

This is the first time I don't understand what you're talking about in one sitting. I need to rewatch this a couple more times lol

[@DRuddful]

Now I ask myself "What would it look like to have 2 true mirrors facing each other?"

[@TimHWolfe]

Great stuff - I like these videos. He makes them fun and you learn things along the way. Like Mr Wizard back in the 50’s 👍👍👍 (I’m old👨🏼‍🦳) Thank you !

[@terryowens3860]

I would be interested in whether you could get a see through mirror, and observe how far down the rabbit hole we could see. Also awesome video.

[@MickeyTTT]

When I was a kid I scratched off a tiny bit of the silver coating in the middle of a mirror so that I could see through it, but it wasn't obvious from the other side. Then I put it opposite another mirror, and was able to look through the middle of the mirror rather than around the side of it, which usually makes the 'tunnel' curve off to the side and out of view. You can see a lot further, but as you'd expect the image becomes more blurry and darker with each reflection until you can't make out any more reflections. It also becomes more green with each reflection as glass is slightly green in colour, as you can see if you look at the edge of a sheet of glass.

[@Pedritox0953]

1:20 AWESOME EFFECT!! Inception !?

[@cryptocosmosphere]

This is some next level inception for me !!

[@laorugaaburrida9392]

The laser part at the end was awesome

[@duncantiminey1088]

All videos should be 10 minutes of mirrors and lasers.

[@Halleviews]

Thank you i was looking for such a video

[@aryawnnn]

it's funny that i dont understand the explanations he's giving in most of his vids but i'm very entertained lol

[@TheArtofKAS]

I lose it at that darn Lazer. Bravo my friend 👍🏾👍🏾

[@phoneuser1437]

You're explanation is really very good

[@logiclock9483]

thanks for the great video!

[@soulbakin]

Very good breakdown

[@larsbecker9127]

Thank you for making Videos.

[@Acein3055]

Great video. Thanks.

[@njan-Asher]

True mear, regular mear . Done 👍

[@abiealjoby6983]

Haha

[@anoshjames6696]

,😂😂

[@gigos2]

Excellent comment!

[@speckledjim_]

Funny as fck!!

[@OnTheRiver66]

Where so you get a true mirror? Great video with a lot of information.

[@boydbrown7395]

Your videos are great!!!

[@Ammarfyo]

I've been waiting for your new experiment video I love it so much thanks for making this 😄✌ ps:I never get liked from action lab 😂

[@gigos2]

He's barely givinh any likes to anybody.. Don't feel special.

[@kostadinkostadinov2510]

Funny how the silver itself on the glass reflecting is similarly going within itself to infinity, but not the mirrors, in this dimention the reflection stops at the last molecules able to reflect.

[@personperson6022]

I was wondering what the last imagine would be a few days ago in an two parallel mirrors so it’s kind of coincidental that this video exists now

[@SalarPro]

You have to get animator for your self so ppl can undrstand even more.

[@84Tacos]

Okay you need to do another video about that Laser! You can see where the reflected beams cross. It's super bright there. I wonder how hot it is.

[@Dwayne7]

I've actually done this experiment when I was very young, but I got no words and reasons to explain why xD anyways This is really Cool !

[@darshan5044]

1:20 I legit thought that u had another cameraman ! 🤯

[@Neptune185]

Nice work! I tried that!

[@Marcus_Terry1]

puts a magnifying glass in the middle of the infinity box and shines a light on it*

[@Joe_Potts]

UNLIMITED POOOWWWEEEEEERRRRR

[@redsquirrelftw]

This got me thinking it would be cool to see how far in you can zoom with a good lens. The real limitation is the quality of the glass, the image will start to fade the more times it has to bounce off the mirror.

[@brainisfullofnonsense8183]

I can appreciate the calculus involved, but what you didn't use to limit the series to keep it from continuing to infinity is the idea of a smallest possible reflection. I pose that this limitation would be reached when a single photon is bounced, since a single photon is the smallest unit of light. It would not preserve any physical resemblence to the image because it would be akin to reducing a photograph to a single pixel, and we wouldn't even be able to say with any kind of certainty what wavelength that quanta would be traveling at because of scattering and such. But I digress. Placing that single limitation removes the latter portions of the series that could yeild and infinite result. Great video and I really like the images of reflecting a true mirror onto itself. Notice how the reflections get darker as more reflections are reflected. You can see the opposite happen when aiming a camera at a monitor displaying an image from the camera. It gets brighter. I wonder if you could balance the lightening and the darkening effects by aiming a camera at a mirror reflecting the image of the monitor which is displaying the output from the camera....or maybe that's when we break the universe and the ending credits start to play.

[@professorworks8363]

I would love to see what would happen if you tried to zoom really far in on the mirror reflection and see how many copies of yourself you can see

[@the_bassiah]

I've ALWAYS wanted someone to put a camera behind a 2 way mirror, then face another mirror so we can truly see how infinite a mirror goes!

[@raswanthkrishna8492]

Well, it's a nice video but I'm sticking on to my 100% flat ,shiny and exclusively regular mirror for now !

[@speckledjim_]

"Today we're gonna be shining a meer into a true meer" ha ha ha

[@HenryNWhite-zp5zp]

Thank you. Now I can only hear him saying meer

[@Abish_]

this video : Mear mear mear image mear true mear mear mear

[@artiction]

Thank you. I cant unhear it now.

[@Immortal628]

That was killing me too

[@christianheichel]

Gabriel Iglesias :::: "You mear" lol

[@thegreathesam9748]

oh god exactly, and its really annoying when a dude talks like an old chick

[@speckledjim_]

Ha ha ha ha "meer"!!

[@johnwatkins3824]

It’s “countable infinity”. As apposed to “uncountable infinity”.

[@jonmayer]

I'm not sure if you're describing mathematical limits correctly. One just converges on a limit a lot faster than the other. But both are an infinite series.

[@Youngillidan]

Do a true mirror reflected into another true mirror next!!!

[@thewaytruthandlife]

gabriels horn: paint... the paint is than assumed to consist of infinitesimal small paint molecules and they are not. theyare at minimum a few nanometers big and the horn goes to infinite smaller widths going to infinity

[@JayEzOweEnn]

Pretty cool video, but i prefer the title to be more like "what it looks like to reflect a true mirror with a regular mirror"

[@RandyKing314]

I remember having a problem with Gabriel's Horn back in high school... The math works out, but the "paint" analogy isn't intuitive... If you "fill" the Horn, you would coat the inside, which is the same as "painting" the outside (which has to have the same area as the outside because it has no thickness). The analogy is difficult because we are mixing real things like paint with theoretical things like surfaces and infinity.

[@trainssirenscatstractors4029]

this is awesome

[@Leo-gw8ql]

I have tried this in a Virtual Machine and it looked as amazing as this is. . .

[@Aikisbest]

My cousins parents used to have a really small bathroom (only a sink and toilet basically) that for some reason had two mirrors in it (one wall mirror over the sink, and one of those medicine cabinet thingies with a mirror on the front) and I was always amazed at the effect it created, heh

[@alpha_x6950]

Legends use action lab videos to clarify their physics concept

[@enoch7thadam1st2]

Wow! this was what was totally missing in my life i totally found my enlightenment in this life! ¡¡¡¡¡¡

[@mike1024.]

I would argue that the answer is a definite yes. I think a good interpretation of whether the image goes on to infinity would be its distance from the viewer. Since that is a length amount, that goes to infinity.

[@CesareVesdani]

Does the size of the mirrors affect how much infinite mirrors you can see?

[@SRADracer]

If the image is getting smaller every reflection, it can’t be infinite. At some point the image is smaller than the wavelength of the light and won’t be reflected anymore.

[@JGHFunRun]

Also light loses a tiny amount of luminance when reflected, even off of a mirror.

[@NimeLime]

Bro u r best 👑👑👑👍👍 keep it up

[@SunroseStudios]

every time he says "in real life" as if a mirror image isn't a thing that occurs in real life lol

[@jacobopstad5483]

Now I wanna see a true mirror reflected in a true mirror

[@EzeePosseTV]

You can not break the Matrix!! - The Action Lab: *_Hold My True Mirror_* - Me: _Aight...I'm Outta here!_

[@micky2be]

In fact it's finite because at some point it runs out of light to reflect. The mirror is absorbing part of the light at each reflection. Adding the fact the area gets smaller as well.

[@kellypawspa]

Mirrors are probably the most mysterious things we dont fully understand at all.

[@thom1218]

The only reason it's "no, it doesn't go on forever" is due to the inverse square law that our vision cone introduces, i.e. lenticular field of view. A true orthographic projection and reflection in any mirror would go forever with no inverse square law.

[@deathball2331]

thom1218 Perfect mirrors*. Because mirrors that we use in everyday life absorb a small amount of radiation with every incidence upon them. Vsauce explained this showing that mirrors absorb green wavelengths the least, causing the further reflections to be progressively more green

[@caligana]

This is deep. I'm going to have to reflect on it.

[@naota3k]

I watched this video in a mirror pointed over my shoulder at the back of a white sheet while projecting the video from the opposite side.

[@kshitijpandey6514]

Try to place an object between a concave mirror and a plane mirror I guess it would be fun

[@patricktapia5525]

“Is the image in the mirror infinite?” “Well yes, but actually no”

[@mito88]

no, it is. yes, it is not.

[@mr.knightthedetective7435]

Make an experiment with spherical mirrors, it'll be interesting

[@contessa.adella]

And of course practically speaking, the glass absorbs a little light at each reflection, thus dimming the images progressively to nothing!

[@Daily_islamic_reminder1]

It's simple every time the surface becomes half of other e.g If I subtracted 0.5 from 1 and then goes on there will be something left to infinity unless you subtract whole number from it

[@diegodonofrio]

Awesome!!!

[@nicbentulan]

they should've done this in the 2008 kiefer sutherland film mirrors!

[@JanKowalski-rd7yb]

Man, I love this channel. Whoever said, that science is boring - apologize now. XD I think it was Einstein, who said, that when you can't explain a complex problem with simple words - you don't fully understand it yourself. Late Stephen Hawking was a genius exactly because he could explain anything even to a biggest mathematical imbecile (like me). This guy also gets it. Problem with regular education at majority of schools is, they just tell you to memorize some definitions and formulas, but they won't give you much explanations, which are simple enough to be understood by anyone (like some real-life examples of given phenomenon or possible practical applications). It's one of my favorite channels as of now, waiting for new content!

[@hughaskew6550]

"Shine a mirror" is strange language.

[@damiangreen299]

imperfect reflections and dirt on the mirror also diminish the distance you can see, much like looking through fog, therefore it is not infinite.