Mirrors don't flip images... you do

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[@adamplace1414]

I guess the moral is that whenever you see an article saying "dogs don't understand mirrors" or whatnot, the point is.. neither do humans.

[@francescafrancesca3554]

True, true.

[@MMD88]

Pretty sure what they mean by that is they don’t realize they are the ones in the mirror we at least understand that it’s just a reflection of us

[@adamplace1414]

Can someone else post "thats_the_joke.gif" for me? I can't seem to find it.

[@k1263]

Hence, Humans= doggos

[@psykology9299]

My one dog could care less about mirrors but my other pitch black dog hates the mirror dog and growls at it before trying to look for the dog behind the cupboard, then comes back, growls and goes and looks behind the cupboard again for the mirror dog and its adorable 😂👌

[@MiamiMarkYT]

That might be the most intuitive thing anyone’s ever said about mirrors yet it entirely rocked my world

[@lesserquack5437]

my braincells flip off and quit

[@williamduncan7401]

Intuitive does not mean it is correct. When the sheet has no blackface visibility (transparent background) viewing it from behind, you see a flipped version. Thankfully basic geometry is here to disprove this misinformation

[@purplewine7362]

@@williamduncan7401 lmao 🤡

[@bait5257]

@@purplewine7362 why are you calling someone a clown without proving him wrong. He wasn't even disrespectful. Stfu

[@johnnyp1986]

I can rock your world 😏

[@aracelylopezpsyd5794]

The clear sheets really help a LOT.

[@Bullet44]

Agreed. 👍🏻

[@entireglxy4338]

His visual representations are always top notch.

[@shivamarya5225]

It's actually wrong tho, mirrors do flip, like in the arrow example, if you actually point the arrow straight towards the mirror then refelection would point in the opposite direction i.e. towards you. Same with your own reflection, you look into the mirror, your reflection looks out of the mirror towards you

[@dawntwilight]

@@shivamarya5225 damn it I thought I understood

[@shivamarya5225]

@@dawntwilight Its not that hard to understand, mirrors dont actually flip right to left, they flip forwards to backwards or the axis to perpendicular to a mirror. When looking in a mirror and pointing your hand towards right, your reflection would point in the same direction, the only difference is your reflection would face back towards you rather than looking forward like you are, thats why hands appear flipped in the mirrors, its because the forwards and backwards got flipped in the mirror. Similarly if the mirror was on the ground it would flip in the direction perpendicular to it i.e. flip up to down and vice versa. Thats also why flipping a paper works to make flipped letters, you are just flipping the front and back axis

[@happyface-]

This blew my mind and I just woke up. I need to go back to sleep to process this.

[@Liquefaction]

When you wake up, report back on what you decided

[@Engelion]

Me making up any excuse possibe to go back to sleep

[@yipperdeyip]

Flipping heck

[@markgonsalves]

good night.

[@abundantlyarlyney]

I love the way you think.

[@koryrae1399]

“The exam wasn’t that confusing” The exam:

[@thatdudebelike...9439]

Ok but most exams don't make me question my eyes!!! 😭😭😭😂

[@WhatIsThis-zq4hk]

Susie has 3 apples and John has 5 apples. Calculate the angular momentum of the sun if it was made out of lead.

[@amroosha]

@@WhatIsThis-zq4hk 2πft

[@amroosha]

nvm this is angular velocity

[@vinay3674]

@@WhatIsThis-zq4hk it's an easy one... Ans: Orange

[@TheAkdzyn]

The mirror: I think he understands me more than I understand myself.

[@somerandomguy0101]

o_O

[@mikesmith7620]

o_O

[@starluxury4377]

Laffy Taffy

[@Dj_Barlethh]

Be careful don’t say mirror mirror mirror 🪞 because you can see something amazing

[@somerandomguy0101]

@@Dj_Barlethh ok thanks for awaring me i wont say that 🙂👍

[@reiketsu_hitori]

maybe the flipped images were the friends we made along the way

[@lorenzodellolio]

10/10 comment

[@Granadan]

The amount of people that are having their minds blown is blowing my mind

[@InstantMash]

Wait until they look in the corner of two mirrors facing each other at 90°

[@CLOYO]

@Ur Mama Unmirror your front camera on your phone. You're welcome.

[@saikiiiii]

it’s just the way he explained it

[@bruhfish2270]

Bro I’m high af lma ✋

[@Leprutz]

@@InstantMash 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 u made my day.

[@EaglesQuestions]

A better question is "why do so many people not realize that THEY are flipping the page to show it to the mirror?"

[@creatorrater2931]

A lack of self awareness

[@franknall3074]

Human intuition is designed for finding food, shelter and safety. Not mirror logic

[@gameseeker6307]

@@franknall3074 🗿 👈

[@alisongregory4421]

Humanity chooses to believe one thing, and we are a stubborn species, so we also choose not to learn. We are also afraid of failure, so we choose not to admit our mistake.

[@zachrhodys7477]

Wait a minute...

[@Verbalaesthet]

The direction you look at something matters and the mirror flips the direction you look at it. It's like you're watching yourself from behind if you were transparent.

[@MysTrysTisBek]

Whoa

[@shiinondogewalker2809]

I don't really get what you mean by the direction matters. I'd say the direction in which you flip something to make it face the mirror is what matters. you can flip a paper to face the mirror and have the reflection look upside down if you like

[@DavidErdy]

Answered a 33 year mystery. Thank you.

[@noneisallminussome371]

Oh my god. This was literally in front of our faces this whole time.

[@georgiacinq-mars1899]

What?

[@geewiz8253]

🤣 💦 💦 🌊

[@edheldude]

Call the mayor! The public must be explained how reflections work!

[@Yellowstone300]

What was?

[@jenniferhagan6695]

Lol

[@Anttys_WeyTua_CTa_Eu986]

This woke me up from a lifetime of confusion, thank you.

[@benderflendr]

this put me in one

[@Zeppongola]

@iii601 how about this: if you hold a book to your face so you can read it, then turn it around to face the mirror, you've reversed it. In the mirror, the pages are reversed, which is what you would expect, having just flipped the book. Therefore the mirror can't be flipping the image, because otherwise it'd be reversing the image twice, which would put it back where it started, and you'd read the text in the mirror normally. Or alternatively: hold a hand up to the mirror; your thumb is on the same side both in the reflection and outside the mirror. But if you want to see the reflection of the back of your hand, you need to rotate it, which lets you see the back of the hand in the reflection, but now your thumb is on the other side, both in and outside of the mirror. People seem to get mixed up specifically with books and the like because the back is normally not see-through, so they don't see the text being reversed outside of the mirror, only in the reflection, and don't think about the fact that they've rotated the pages around

[@_shadow_1]

This video is wrong. The mirror *does* flip the light, it only does it in the front to back direction. Point an arrow at the mirror and you can see this for yourself.

[@Anttys_WeyTua_CTa_Eu986]

@@_shadow_1 That's what they already said.

[@shivamarya5225]

@@_shadow_1 thats exactly what I was thinking, glad I'm not the only one, I even replied the same exact thing on another comment

[@Starwort]

This falls down (slightly) if you point the arrow at the mirror. They flip images, not along the X or Y axes but the Z axis

[@chrisg3030]

If an image was flipped along the Z axis running through the center of the mirror, that would mean you'd be face to face with your toes.

[@peytondobbins8244]

dude literally what

[@Starwort]

@@chrisg3030 that would be a Y-axis flip *and* a Z-axis flip, optionally with an additional X-axis flip

[@shiinondogewalker2809]

@@chrisg3030 realize that he's referring to depth in/out of the mirror by Z axis. it's arbitrary anyways

[@shiinondogewalker2809]

I assumed that by "image" he meant 2d image. But yeah mirror images certainly are flipped in the Z axis. This is why we must flip the paper toward the mirror to see the text in the mirror image. And depending on how we flip the paper, we choose another axis in which the text will appear flipped in the mirror, which typically would be left-right flipped because that's how we'd flip something if we wanted to show it to another person

[@gameslover757]

All this time. Man, there is some depth in even the simplest things.

[@rongondas]

"The mirrors don't reflect images they reflect light" *AND MY BRAIN STOPPED WORKING*

[@EpicQibliFan]

When images are made out of light

[@omhh1986]

U don't know basic highschool shit?

[@NK-ns1bp]

How? This shit is being tought in school! Its not rocket science!

[@lallawmkima_official]

If there is no light, what's the point of having a eye

[@EpicQibliFan]

@@NK-ns1bp here’s what I remember from school; Basic maths English and science. And that I’m a disappointment

[@izaadh328]

Now my soul is complete. This is one of the questions I had in my mind that I didn't even asked anyone or thought to ask.

[@01FrozenFuze]

Same here now we know what is going on XD. The most confusing thing has been explained

[@sakshiprakash2528]

Exactly!!! 🙂

[@jdj2022]

What about the question of why seeing your reflection in a spoon flips you upside down lol.

[@jdj2022]

@@sakshiprakash2528 I know why lol. I was saying it because the original posters comment.

[@pharma37]

I had no idea this was a question that needed to be asked.

[@nat0106951]

damn. yeah. we are not flipped in mirrors! you deserve nobel prize for this 😅

[@kuribo04]

but we are!

[@emiliomarbanjr]

We are.

[@edukaeshn]

this dude is dunning-kruger effect in full display

[@backbone93]

Raise your right hand to the mirro he will raise his left... its called mirroring

[@backbone93]

Lets be happy the mirro" flips things" imagine raising your right hand and your mirror raises his right hand, THAT would be spooky

[@changedthetag]

What an excellent explanation 😆 Everything went above my head 🗣️

[@7ebr830]

Splendid. If you're not confused, you're misinformed. 😉😁

[@nicest_channel]

“Shits flipped” -Some dude on Triller

[@re_i_gn]

Isn't that the Tiktok clone company owned by Harvey Weinstein?

[@nicest_channel]

@@re_i_gn LOL IT IS

[@snovbird]

It also works with Twitter instead of thriller

[@EuropaThePirateTwin3]

@@re_i_gn Oh yeah, and he was accused by his former partner of running a ponzi scheme?

[@squirrelbugg99]

💀

[@blackenderman9269]

"the only thing a mirror flips is front and back" - my physics teacher

[@cobaltblue2756]

Am i high bc i heard it 'mierr'

[@PJM257]

​@@cobaltblue2756 That's just how it's pronounced for some reason

[@aeojoe]

👏

[@sumitbhole6758]

his brain is fked. I was manipulated my questions were trashed and I was ignored.

[@SelcraigClimbs]

​@@PJM257depending on the accent of the individual saying it. Most brits would say it as "mi-ruh"

[@andrewhernandez1275]

I needed this in my life ...

[@MonsieurExist]

I understand how this works on a fundamental level, but when you explain it like this, it wrinkles my brain a little bit

[@SovereignSmurf]

"It is not the spoon that bends, it is you"

[@xxxromant]

me?

[@marcus5151]

@@xxxromant Matrix reference

[@Eyes0penNoFear]

Why a spoon, cousin?

[@richardwallis9374]

There is no spoon

[@paperbackwriter960]

Neo and the Sybil

[@juliashirokova8374]

when i was 14 my girlfriend spent about 40 minutes trying to explain this to me and i still didn't get it and i cried

[@ahshhddhhdhdhdhdshehe2905]

Did u get marry with her?

[@DC-mu1ys]

Breh

[@unknwn3846]

14?

[@imthecoolest50]

Lmao

[@ExtemTheHedgehogLol]

I am currently 14 and I already knew this information since I was 6. Am I ahead or are you behind?

[@mdf707]

My brain is still flipping to understand..

[@ohdang1083]

This honestly helps me calm myself because my brain always gets so confused trying to justify why the mirror would show the text on my shirt backwards lol

[@vxix.19]

I had said this to my math teacher in high school, he treated me crazy, who is crazy now, Mr. Williams?

[@Am-js1ue]

Yes I never understood why they say words seem flipped out since, that's just our perspective words don't get flipped out in Reality. That's just how we experience It

[@assilbellaoui8305]

You are

[@annischon793]

😏

[@skinsey85]

You because there was no Mr. Williams...

[@SmashTheAdam]

@@skinsey85 the plot thickens

[@nileshsalunke5105]

I am literally feeling his hands kneading my brain like a lump of dough.

[@johnnyrr2643]

What and oddly beautiful image

[@_S.R._]

Yeah right? My feeling was like he fried my brain...

[@ZebrazRus]

“the medium is the massage”

[@NintCondition]

After this my brain feels like a lump of doh 😖

[@reevancarey]

😂😂😂

[@icephoenix1088]

I figured this out when i was younger. Then, years later, in 10th grade, the topic of mirrors came up, so i told my teacher this. They said i was wrong, so i explained it. In fact, the same way he just did. My teacher got quiet and then moved to another topic.

[@Bluntz_]

And then everybody clapped

[@shiinondogewalker2809]

I'm surprised it didn't end with the teaching saying you're wrong again before moving on to the next topic

[@reallyWyrd]

This is a better explanation than normal because of the see-through part, ty.

[@notbengordon]

I never thought of this, got totally bamboozled, and then realized how simple the answer is, and I just...

[@QueenieBam]

Me too

[@cosmodewit]

You just what?

[@adrianovianna2694]

@@cosmodewit thought the sme

[@BlueFlash215]

The mirror doesn't flip x and y but instead it flips the z coordinate. Else you would be able to see the back of your head

[@Talibland]

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[@anthonyhewitt9397]

Everytime I see this guy. I hear him say. "Whoaaa it feels so weird on my fingersss".

[@IntergalacticSpaceKitten]

Lmfaoo Yeah!

[@jonbovimalkovich1474]

ASD

[@deathscarml2798]

Istg🤣

[@mohamedmagdy299]

🤨

[@dan_noo]

man just shortcircuited my brain in less than a minute

[@krombopulosmicheal3845]

Brilliant demonstration, my dude. Very thorough. Well done.

[@edukaeshn]

he demonstrated flipped images (i.e. light reflecting)

[@hotteaincoming7691]

"I've flipped the image". What did the image do?

[@andrewtime2994]

It knows what it did.

[@lightpropulsionguy]

I'm a mirror half flipped kinda guy....

[@smolamenotanapostlebutaame8228]

I like how the three of you makes the word "hat" because of your profile picture

[@lightpropulsionguy]

@@smolamenotanapostlebutaame8228 lol, we do. Well, least we be well hatted!!

[@whizkidd2227]

That fact that i never pick up on this makes me feel dumb.

[@craigeby8016]

im with you 100% ,,,dOh

[@kingelvis5502]

Yup

[@bipstymcbipste5641]

I've always noticed this but I never thought about it. It's kinda cool

[@whizkidd2227]

@@bipstymcbipste5641 and you didn't share this information with the rest of us.... shame....shame.....shame

[@Dazed_04]

It's called lateral inversion. Your right arm becomes the left for the image being shown in the mirror.

[@djbare9]

The odd thing is I know how light reflects, yet my head still spun with your explanation.

[@alexplorer]

I didn't flip it... the man in the mirror did! (And I'm asking him to change his waaaays!)

[@nonoput]

Heehee

[@alexplorer]

@@nonoput I see what you did there. Now beat it.

[@ishaankundapur2474]

@@alexplorer ? Wdym

[@13mileon]

@@ishaankundapur2474 They told him don't you ever come around here Don't want to see your face, you better disappear The fire's in their eyes and their words are really clear So beat it, just beat it You better run, you better do what you can Don't want to see no blood, don't be a macho man You want to be tough, better do what you can So beat it, but you want to be bad Just beat it, beat it, beat it, beat it No one wants to be defeated Showin' how funky and strong is your fight It doesn't matter who's wrong or right Just beat it, beat it Just beat it, beat it Just beat it, beat it Just beat it, beat it

[@keebisking]

Go to sleep! Lol

[@cheebi9820]

I’ve seen comments of people not understand this so here: Mirrors don’t flip anything you put in front of it, you flip it and the mirror shows you the thing flipped because you flipped it. To show the words on the mirror, you need to flip the paper so it’s facing the mirror. By flipping the paper, you flip the words on the paper. The mirror will reflect what it sees, which is the paper that you flipped.

[@imcrazy534]

Wow thank you. I just heard flip so many times and left more confused than I came

[@Feverm00n]

I’m so sorry if this is a dumb question but I’m missing something and I really want to understand. What does he mean we flip it? Like in the case of writing something on a paper and then holding it up in the mirror where it looks backwards, how are we flipping it? Cause when someone writes something on a paper and then flips it around to show me, the letters aren’t backwards to me. They still seem like they’re going the right way. What am I missing here?? (To be transparent, I also don’t know the detailed science behind mirrors/reflections, I also have ABYSMAL spatial reasoning. I can barely translate clockwise and counterclockwise most of the time).

[@cheebi9820]

@@Feverm00n don’t worry about it being a dumb question. When he says we flip it, he is just saying the paper is rotated to face the mirror instead of facing you.

[@cheebi9820]

@@Feverm00n when a paper is flipped and shown to you, you see the normal word because the paper is facing you. The mirror on the other hand shows you a reflection the paper when it is not facing you, that’s why the words are reversed

[@cheebi9820]

@@Feverm00n the mirror shows you an image of the paper when it is facing AWAY from you, which reverses the image

[@silenthashassin8912]

He politely called everyone an idiot and explained why.

[@catmanguylol3568]

Why do I continue watching these videos even though my brain catches on fire when I watch them.

[@cathifamjourney469]

Exactly, why don't we realize this. Lol

[@rulisa1131]

Pahahah I'm here laughing at my monkey brain smh

[@eclipse7117]

Because man... We're humans.

[@Ass_of_Amalek]

I did at ~5...

[@stevenjones8575]

Because mirrors do actually flip front-to-back, which flips chirality (i.e., "handedness"). We see our left hand as a right hand in the mirror. 3D objects do get flipped front-to-back. Because that change in chirality is often associated with flipped text (e.g., seeing the "us" in the mirror is wearing a shirt with backwards text), we tend to just think of it as flipping left-to-right, rather than flipping chirality. The video here seems to not be flipping anything only because he's removed depth as a factor, so we can't see the depth get flipped.

[@alakani]

@@Ass_of_Amalek When mirrors reflect light, the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection. Chirality is taught in organic chemistry and many undergrads still don't get it. 5 year olds, savant syndrome aside, don't have a sufficiently developed occipital lobe for much of any complex mental imaging. In your other comment you mention stepping in the mirror and turning 180 degrees - but then your left side would become your right side. Instead of turning around, you'd have to turn through yourself. Humans thinking they know what's going on when they usually don't is called the Dunning-Kruger effect, mitigating it is a constant process for everyone along with all the other cognitive biases, which is where the phrase 'check yourself before you wreck yourself' comes from :p

[@Fire27hun]

But it does flip light in the z-axis, that's why when you point the arrow towards the mirror it doesn't follow the direction but it gets inverted instead

[@lemmingscanfly5]

Yeah I really expected him to do that.

[@Z44BO]

Yeah!!! But why ?

[@colton88]

It doesn’t really flip it, it reflects it, but I know what you’re getting at

[@stevenjones8575]

@@Z44BO Because our brains interpret distance on the assumption that light travels in a purely straight line. Say the mirror is 3 feet North from you. When you look in the mirror, an object 2 feet North of you will appear in the mirror as 4 feet North, because the light bouncing off the object only has to travel 2 feet to go straight to your eyes, but the light bouncing to the mirror and then to your eyes has to travel 4 feet to go from the object to your eyes. An object 1 foot North of you appears only 1 foot away in real life, but its reflection appears 5 feet North. Your own reflection appears 6 ft North, while in reality you're 0 ft North of yourself. An object 1 ft behind appears 1 foot to the South, but its mirror image appears 7 ft North. And this continues: the further South an objects is, the further North it will appear in the mirror. The mirror has flipped South to North. This is because our brains assume light always travels straight when judging distance.

[@vgaggia]

@@stevenjones8575 bruh you could’ve written that but like 3x shorter

[@ineffablemars]

I said “whoa” so loudly when he showed the transparent sheet 😂

[@pietrovinciguerra7716]

The direction perpendicular to the mirror does get flipped, if you point the arrow into the mirror the reflection will be inverted.

[@kerryjlynch1]

The best explanation of this I've seen. Physics Girl came close, but the transparent material makes this really clear.

[@Savala-Ram]

​@@JamesBurks what

[@waqasusmans]

@Kerry Lynch, that's exactly what I was thinking! I was still confused after Physics Girl Dianna's video about mirrors, but I'm a content man after watching this video! Btw Dianna has been suffering from Long COVID and can barely get up from the bed because of fatigue 😞

[@yellowbastard196]

​@@Savala-Ram "...but the TRANSPARENT material makes this really CLEAR"

[@reylavienna1318]

Qi did this a while back terrifically

[@steamer2k319]

Henh. Nevertheless, agreed. Some explanations actually make it harder to understand.

[@iceeeyy3557]

This really baffled me when I was a kid. I thought I would never find the answer why it is flipped.

[@edwardrook8146]

I've had so many workers who thought the truck mirror turned right into left. It boggles the mind

[@tertmemelur1880]

THAT CLARIFIED EVERYTHING OMG TYSM

[@avanish_singh]

This thing was happening for years front of our eyes and we didn't realize.

[@williamduncan7401]

I do hope you are being sarcastic because otherwise you should probably retake geometry

[@SebaBuenoHaceMusiquitaJijiji]

@@williamduncan7401 Which are the 7 characteristics of life?

[@AfraidMonsters]

What “thing”? His explanation in the video made no sense, he spammed the word flip and ended up with nonsense for a video

[@RosieGoldie85]

@@AfraidMonsters What are you talking about? I understood it perfectly. I think youre just not getting it /gen

[@AfraidMonsters]

@@RosieGoldie85 didn’t ask. “/gen” cringe

[@puellanivis]

This could use the demo “if you flip it vertically in order to show the image to the mirror, it’s not left-right flipped at all, but it is up-down flipped.”

[@johnhurtme]

No it is neither height or width that are flipped in a reflection, it is depth not the x or y axis but the z axis though it is visible on a 2 dimensional representation. That is why it can be confusing an arrow pointing up, down left or right reflects the same direction, now point the arrow at the mirror, showing depthit points back at you

[@puellanivis]

@@johnhurtme I know that a mirror flips the z-axis, but if one flips a piece of text in order to show it to the mirror, then it is actually flipped, because _one flipped it themselves_ not because the mirror did the flipping. That’s the whole point of the exercise of flipping something vertically to show it to the mirror. It demonstrates that the image in the mirror is not flipped because of how the mirror works, but because of our behavior in getting the thing pointed at the mirror instead of towards ourselves. And that depending on whether one flips it on the x-axis or y-axis, _that_ is what determines how it looks flipped in the mirror, again, because we’re the ones flipping it, not the mirror.

[@johnhurtme]

@@puellanivis er are describing the same phenomenon two different ways. And emphasizing different qualities of the same natural order. You are smarter than most people in these comments, who don't understand reflection any more than a puppy who can't reason who that other dog is, haha

[@judas_bdb8681]

Just confused the shit outta me because I already knew this but then he had me feeling like I was wrong

[@Ricardo-C]

You don't watch a video, the video just watches you

[@BazookaTooth707]

The medium is the message after all.

[@theonlyramankumar8359]

It feels like Thor explaining Aether

[@mastikitrain2844]

Man changed the whole fucking concept of many people with this one video I swear 👏

[@emiliomarbanjr]

Nah most didnt get it. Me included.

[@sikbone]

Its insane how something so simple went over our heads our entire lives

[@googlesuxbigtime1227]

Seriously? I understood this concept as a child.

[@sikbone]

@@googlesuxbigtime1227 yet you havent cured cancer or achieved any scientific milestone. So your point is?

[@johnninocovers]

EXPLAINATION: it's because which face is facing. in 3D modeling, it's called 'normal' where the right-side facing up is considered the outer-side, and the negative face in the inner side. While silhouette stays the same. Example, if you wrote 'hello' on the arrow, and the written side is facing you, the mirror will reflect the blank backside, despite being the same cutout shape. Flip the cutout vertically until the face 'hello' is in the mirror, and you'll be left with the blank side facing you. The shape direction still remains, albeit the 'hello' is upside down, flipped. His method is intentionally confusing the viewers because he's using clear plastic sheet in his example. The front side is seen through the back side. And the backside will always be flipped even before you put it in the mirror. If the backside with flipped words face is facing the mirror, it's a double negative: if -x = flipped words, -1 = mirror flipping the reflection (-x) * (-1) = Positive x, or the right orientation.

[@CadillacDriver]

What a garbled mess.

[@chrisg3030]

I follow and agree with some of what you're saying, especially "his method is intentionally confusing the viewers because he's using clear plastic sheet in his example. The front side is seen through the back side. And the backside will always be flipped even before you put it in the mirror." I can think of a much simpler example of image flip using written letters. Write RAN on a piece of card and hold it against the mirror edge on so you see the word and its reflection simultaneously. You'll see RAN ИAЯ. Clearly it's not you who's doing the flip.

[@vocally13]

For a second my brain is flipped out

[@dubbyplays]

*You don't fall on the ground, the ground just force your body to give it a hug*

[@CinnamonOwO]

Technically true. The gravitational pull is pulling you in.

[@vladimirprotein3275]

or the ground moves up and crashes with you 🤨

[@edukaeshn]

​@@CinnamonOwO no, technically it's not true and this video makes no sense

[@RealJackBolt]

​​@@CinnamonOwO both mutually force each other. It's just that one's too fat to move

[@jerryalbus1492]

Technically it's true, because you don't "fall", you get "attracted" by the gravitational pull

[@lordpuff]

Brooo. I realized that im SO FUCKING DUMB

[@swanningabout]

Bro?

[@JakeCari]

Same lmao

[@Hollycalvey]

you're not dumb, this video is. mirrors do make the world that is viewed through them appear horizontally flipped and that is what everyone means when they talk about a mirror flipping the image. If you hold up your right arm, the person in the mirror is holding up their left arm, or would be if it was a physical person in front of you. The gimmick with showing writing not flipped when it's facing you is only mind blowing because you're not used to being able to read the text the right way from both the paper and the mirror at once, but if you think about what the mirror is "seeing", it's seeing mirrored text through the paper, just like when you write on a page and flip it to see the writing flipped ocming through the paper.

[@beckybickersteth2320]

Have a feeling a war's going to start soon due to the reply above me.

[@tomr6955]

@@Hollycalvey Agreed % 10001 %

[@zaidsheikh7709]

I had goosebumps when he held that text infront of mirror and it showed unflipped

[@dracotrapstar]

Me telling myself I’ve been looking at a mirror wrong the whole time!

[@goatmagnum]

"The missle knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't."

[@brunobautista6316]

By substracting where it is from where it isn't...

[@KillerofGods]

or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater),

[@BroMordekai]

Thus it knows where it wasn't

[@Kristian-ql8zw]

@@BroMordekai And where it won't be

[@mr.sunmeadow]

This chat hurt do read xD *-I know the thing by heart, and every tiny mistake hurts-* Anyways, moving on: _The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands…_

[@MynameisS_A]

My brain: come on this isn’t rocket science. Did you get it still? Me: I am unable to can understand it

[@michaeljohndadd545]

550th like

[@adamizz-warith1540]

Lmao

[@krombopulosmicheal3845]

😂😂😂

[@superdrifter-1773]

This feels like “ You can’t touch music but music can touch you “ type of moment

[@GregTurismo]

Very interesting. It makes perfect sense but surprisingly confuses me and others in the moment.

[@ZaidKE35]

Me after understanding the concept of mirror… “Dem im smarter than average person”.

[@777arksMa77_RGM]

it's true though

[@Novozymandiaz]

If you didn't understand mirrors, I dont think you can count yourself as smarter than average person 😂

[@ddan1998]

@@Novozymandiaz k

[@ioasisyumich]

@@Novozymandiaz in fact you can't even be considered an average person.

[@strydyrhellzrydyr1345]

He played us for a fool .. don't u see it

[@Archangel1988]

He's a flipping genius 🤣✌️

[@itsjacobgandy]

I get it

[@teddypgray]

I think somebody has been watching a certain wholesaling channel on KZbin!

[@thefirsttrillionaire2925]

This guy… Get this guy I wanna hire him!

[@Inflake]

This is such a simple concept but my brain still can’t grasp it

[@jainakhil]

My mind definitely flipped.

[@AeolianMusica]

This reflects the daily struggle I have trying to manually print on both sides.

[@aracelylopezpsyd5794]

OMG! 😂 Close your eyes & visualize how the sheet will flip as it goes through the printer & manually flip it to confirm. That’s my process anyway (it works 90%…maybe 80%)

[@Mr0rris0]

Just stand on your printer backwards and deal with it between your legs behind you like I do

[@Mr0rris0]

I'm kidding though. Don't get hurt that probably won't work it just sounds good

[@SirMasi]

🤯 The explanation with the transparency and paper was really elegant too. It made the idea really tangible.

[@BrunoBayerNetto]

If you could look at the transparent paper from a mirror perspective, the words would be backwards. Not even he himself understood what he tried to explain.

[@divyanshsoni2196]

damn .... You just gave me the whole process that i can't understand in entire life... 😀❤️

[@Stuff_And_Things]

You get a big thumbs up for this. Its the clearest, simplest demonstration I've seen. Congrats. You've likely un-broke the internet. ;)

[@Rydian7]

I am legitimately confused about what seems to be confusing here :P

[@shanl9583]

Picture how you feel when try to socialize with a cute girl :P

[@onlysongs1607]

@@shanl9583, ._.

[@Cripalani]

The concept I've got when I was 5 maybe

[@shanl9583]

@@Cripalani I was just speaking to your emotions because you do not seem to be aware that just because we are smart enough to understand a familiar or obvious concept of does not mean people are dumb for not understanding a foreign concept immediately. For example, if this was explained to you in Russian without subtitles you would indeed be confused but it's not because you do not understand the concept you just don't understand how it was explained

[@Cripalani]

@@shanl9583 actually, Russian is my native language soooo 😅

[@user-Werner-Heisenberg]

So how many times you want to say "Flip" Him: Yes

[@utilisateur1656]

Yesn't

[@toazethegecko]

No'es

[@FantasyTheSloth]

I'm pretty sure you took a comment. Unless urs a coincidence

[@FantasyTheSloth]

*its

[@user-Werner-Heisenberg]

@@FantasyTheSloth Well I don't actually read other comments a lot so it should be a coincidence

[@happycamper246]

Video: Mirrors don't flip images, we do. My brain: UNACCEPTABLE!!!

[@neha_t30]

Now my brain is flipped.

[@mayankprajapat4591]

I know this theoretically, But my brain can't process it practically

[@prismarinestars7471]

The image in the mirror is “flipped” in a sense, it’s just flipped front to back rather than left to right

[@OMGAnotherday]

✌️Yes Agree the image in the mirror is flipped (or to be more precise the light bouncing back from the mirror) Not the writing on the paper nor is the paper flipped. If we stand behind the mirror the nothing is flipped. But of course then we won’t see the reflection.

[@mfThump]

your eyes see the world upside down, your brain flips the images to be right-side up.

[@Sonofsun.]

Lol watch the video again

[@OMGAnotherday]

@@indiangamerbg8346 No it’s not flipped, we are actually reading it backwards because it’s a reflection, but reading backwards is not the same as flipped. The guy in the clip used the wrong description.

[@Sonofsun.]

You see the "image", in this case a written word, flipped in the mirror not because of the mirror but because you just flipped it in order to show it to the mirror. Do you get it now?

[@austincrabtree2850]

Idk why it's still not clicking in my brain for tshirts

[@canalescapebrasil]

Amazing! Thank you for such a simple though efficient explanation!

[@EdwinPohan]

It’s not the spoon that bends, it’s you! Got that kind of vibe.

[@dirtywindshield5034]

There is no spoon...

[@Yezpahr]

Mirrors are often used in that movie, Neo swallows the liquefied mirror when he touches it, he looks into the spoon as he bends it, reflections on vehicles / sunglasses portray a different image altogether (not even flipped just different reality). Therefor, your description is perfectly accurate, it does have that vibe.

[@rozenoroze]

I also recently realized how we see ourselves in the mirror is not how others see us

[@nathanielyoungman4454]

They have things called "true mirrors" its a trip

[@planktonfun1]

Bro unlocked the secrets of the universe

[@pessimistkai5569]

I always thought something was wrong in my physics class.

[@fritzhamburg1785]

I had that discussion in premary school with a teacher. Its quite interesting that we ad a species develop such a thinking.

[@bebeclemente6156]

I was awake for so long 3 days ago thinking of this exact fact.

[@jackiec498]

N🚫 more meth my guy 👍🏼

[@herryvaliant7689]

Yeah that's right. And now my brain is flipped

[@FrozenShadow007]

I think about this a lot because my TV has a mirror directly opposite it, and when an image is very dark, I can see the reflection of the mirror on the TVs reflection which is not flipped.

[@pariveshsingh]

When you run out of chemistry but have a good idea for content in physics:

[@marzipanmerci1068]

Let's hope the "is water wet?" doesn't resurface

[@ShahrukhAhmadMJ]

Holy f.... My whole life was a lie 🤣🤣🤣

[@dranzer2545]

This is almost like a complicated math problem

[@ChaseOGLP]

Bruh mirrors really said “no u” 💀

[@olivejuice1424]

This reminds me of every time I've ever been gaslit

[@jordanblack2250]

Says the crazy person.. haha get it??

[@christeencato]

💀that’s not funny why did I laugh

[@corginzer6139]

No you haven't. Stop making stuff up /j

[@tiredasexual_8334]

You're lying it's all in your head.

[@robearberbils]

"Gaslighting doesn't exist. You made it up because you're f***ing crazy."

[@wavytoad9983]

The fact that this blew anyone's mind, blows my mind.

[@lexbaldwin5613]

3/4ths of the population are bots

[@notjustforme8857]

it took me a while to realize what he was even about. I clicked because the title didn't make sense. never heard of a mirror flipping things. how. it just reflects. what mechanism could there be to flip. a whole video about nothing.

[@Simp-aTheWhiteKnightLion]

The easiest way to explain it is like this: think of the mirror as another eye, when you show it an arrow pointing to your left the mirror sees it to his right, the mirror then shows his view point fliped. So mirrors actually do flip the image

[@js-wy8fg]

That's a great and simple explanation . Also, it solves "mystery" why mirror flips only left and right, but not up and down.

[@videoslogmos]

Spoon flips up and down

[@_boof]

Bruh I’m so lost