Lol, I said Star Wars...where are my fact-checkers?!

@nerdscurvy1092

Жыл бұрын

Sorry I was late.

@GrimmHades

Жыл бұрын

Spock was always my favorite Star Wars character

@joe_croupier

Жыл бұрын

Dude said Star Wars 😂😂😂😂

@akshithmanjunath8557

Жыл бұрын

I don't think I ever saw a mirror in Star-wars Saga. Like for real. Not even in a single clip.

@vhawk1951kl

Жыл бұрын

Busy lying to some other idler

My suspicion that as a science educator, James recognized an emergency lol. Plus he squeezed in some chirality as a bonus! As always, I'm grateful for the Action Lab putting out the good info.

@BariumCobaltNitrog3n

Жыл бұрын

Pretty short comment considering you could go on forever.

@DragonOfTheMortalKombat

Жыл бұрын

We are evolving backwards.......................................... Thanks Social Media.

@darklordflash2117

Жыл бұрын

what is happening to people ?

@Moct3zoom

Жыл бұрын

I used to think he cringed too much to some basic science facts when explained and personally found that a bit disturbing, now I understand the meaning of his constant cringing to basic science facts...

@jluck1590

Жыл бұрын

@@DragonOfTheMortalKombat No, it's the liberal Marxism that is designed by KGB agents to infiltrate a country and destroy it from within. Morals, Education, Family Values, etc etc is destroyed to overthrow the country. Social media is just one tool being used.

I love that this goes from "let's show you how the mirror can see this thing" into "if you ever end up in a mirror universe YOU WILL DIE" so casually

@6fingers_gaming

Жыл бұрын

😂

@lyghtkruz

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it got dark fast 😅

@russellzauner

Жыл бұрын

my molecules inverted when I went in so I just match the reflections of the food

@kevinknight777

Ай бұрын

I literally live in this world and have slowly started documenting jt.

@AllAmericanGuyExpert

25 күн бұрын

Death pivot. Follow the science!

I will NEVER understand how Action Lab can start a video with a simple question that I already know the answer to, and end up unlocking a new part of my brain with something I never even contemplated existing. I'm so glad I subscribed to this channel.

I did not expect a biochemistry ending to an optical physics video. Great content

@xavier9739

9 ай бұрын

good one😂

He's so friendly, kindly answering such a dumb question Edit: My God people are still adding replies to this comment after 2 months, mainly along tbe lines of "this comment is the dumb thing" Please realise it's the top comment on a science video

@salpertia

Жыл бұрын

Humanity is doomed

@MarkAhlquist

Жыл бұрын

It's only dumb to people who already get it. I remember being young and playing with mirrors, and being mystified. I love that kids have these videos now!

@vit.budina

Жыл бұрын

@@MarkAhlquist I think I'd be totally fine with that if the people oblivious to this simple fact were children, but seeing that they are grown adults, you can't blame the person above calling them dumb. It's nice that they are curious, but when you post something like this on the internet, you have to expect to be called dumb by some people. Also, the people in the video acted like it was some kind of magic or something, while an average person their age would at least try to think about why things are that way.

@MarkAhlquist

Жыл бұрын

@BlackboardIdeas You're not wrong. ( I'm older, they look like kids to me.) I'm all for cutting u.s. defense budget and spending it on education instead, but u.s. is run by a handful of sociopathic billionaires so, oh well.

@Valcuda

Жыл бұрын

@@vit.budina Yeah, the fact it was adults asking it, just makes it go from "Child mystified by mirror" to "Grown adult doesn't understand mirrors"

i had a similar MIRROR situation in this all marble bathroom. the light in the room would be reflected by all the slabs of marble except where the grout was so in effect i had DARK shadows being reflected , it was kinda eerie they looked like shadows but were actually less light being reflected by the dull grout.

When they were presenting the "illusion", I was just waiting for something unexpected to happen, but then... it didn't. Just completely in line with how I expected a mirror to work. Completely taken aback that people were surprised about this.

The book _The Boy Who Reversed Himself_ by William Sleator also explores chirality for part of the story. In the book, the main character makes friends with a boy at school who can enter the fourth dimension, and during her first visit to the fourth dimension, she gets flipped around and comes back to the third dimension as a mirror image of herself. In her mirror state, she discovers that everything she tries to eat or drink tastes terrible (except for ketchup, oddly enough), because her molecular structure is flipped with respect to that of the food. She's able to flip back before going too hungry, though, and most of the rest of the book is her exploring the fourth dimensional world with the boy. I definitely recommend reading the book, if you can find it. It's written at a middle-school-ish reading level, but does a great job exploring the idea of a fourth (and even higher!) physical dimension.

@solandri69

Жыл бұрын

"Technical Error" (aka "The Reversed Man") by Arthur C. Clarke is an earlier story (1950) with a person flipped via the 4th dimension.

@rippedtorn2310

Жыл бұрын

sounds great but isnt it strange we all think mirrors flip the image ???? They dont .They only reflect back exactly what we show them .

@mikael9325

Жыл бұрын

​@@rippedtorn2310 That's just semantics. You can say that it does and it doesn't.

@wecirclethesky

Жыл бұрын

Ah! Ana and kata, the other two directions! I used to love William Sleator's books!

@monad_tcp

Жыл бұрын

I would be worried about being flipped inside out, which is a valid rotation in the 4th dimension

At the same time, I absolutely adore how simply and calmly you explained this, and I cannot belive such a trivial question makes so many people confused...

@Bro-vs5mk

Жыл бұрын

I thought this whole thing was an April fools thing but no people actually didn’t pay attention in school or even research things on their own time

@marcus8710

Жыл бұрын

Thank goodness. My forehead crunched up painfully when I realized what was boggling those poor ladies.

@BombaJead

Жыл бұрын

​​@@Bro-vs5mk My guess is that most are faking it for views, or at least l hope so.

@CHRodz

Жыл бұрын

A view into the current state of intelligence and education sadly...

@wifegrant

Жыл бұрын

@@CHRodz I believe light and refraction was covered in 6-7th grade. However, with no education this should be pretty simple. What they teaching them kids in the US? Spend 3-4 times more than the European average on education...and people freaked out by mirrors.

Love that you work for Vandelay Industries and still have the time to research such important topics.

@thebsmith820

9 ай бұрын

yass someone else gets the reference lol

Whooah that was such an awesome fact about how chirality would affect your body in the mirror world! I was not expecting that! Nice job 👏

I love how you extended this to a discussion of chirality, very cool

@westonding8953

Жыл бұрын

It’s genius!

@arifbagusprakoso2308

Жыл бұрын

Yup, that's unexpected.

@COL3A1

Жыл бұрын

Some D-amino acids are toxic or trigger an immune response or anaphylactic shock because they are present in bacteria.

@zakirreshi6737

Жыл бұрын

That time our body will be so that it will accept those mirror images biomolecules only.

@_just_looking_thank_you

Жыл бұрын

And to introduce me to my newest phobia. 🤦‍♂️

You always do a fantastic job of explaining things! Instead of just shaking your head, and thinking people are idiots, you take the time to explain things in a very digestible way. Thank you!!

@carlkenner4581

Жыл бұрын

But he did subtly call them fat, and say they needed Factor. lol

@inxomnyaa

Жыл бұрын

whilst this is true, i am pretty sure most people still didn't get it

@ellisfrancisfarros3935

Жыл бұрын

​@@carlkenner4581 i skipped the sponsor segment but went to watch it after reading this.

@eliseoramirez1691

Жыл бұрын

Butt can our mirrored selves digest thisinformation🤔🤔

@cd23

Жыл бұрын

Can't explain why gum is $6

I immediately knew the answer to this it's perspective of the mirror reflects your own vision meaning it reflects in the way that you're looking at it which is why the reflection of the gum is not visible until you move the way you're viewing to the side allowing it to reflect it. It's simple perspective

Phrasing it as "how does the mirror know what's on the other side of the paper" really drives home the absurdity of this whole thing. 😅

@DeathnoteBB

2 күн бұрын

Everyone is so camera-brained now. They forget mirrors *aren’t* the same thing as your front camera

Additional note to point out that chirality is how some artificial sweeteners work. The tongue can still sense a distorted version of sweetness from the tail end of the "reverse" sugar molecule, but the whole molecule itself can't be digested, and passes through the intestines like fibre. Which is why sweeteners can also cause diarrhoea. In fact, in the mirror universe, all food would do this to you - so you would in effect end up dying of the shits. :)

@bsadewitz

Жыл бұрын

Of course it can be digested. It will be broken down to its constituent amino acids eventually. (In the case of aspartame).

@bsadewitz

Жыл бұрын

In the case of those that are digested, I don't think chirality is the issue. Xylitol isn't even chiral, IS metabolized, and can cause the same sort of GI distress.

@litetaker

Жыл бұрын

The mirror image version of our cells should be able to process mirror image version of the proteins no? The receptors etc in the cells are all mirror imaged and should be able to connect with the mirror image version of the proteins and other food molecules... So the mirror image version of you will survive. But the real you will die of the shits.

@casadelosperrosstudio200

10 ай бұрын

​@bsadewitz I remember using DL Phenylalanine supplements back in the 80’s.... two versions in one pill. Perhaps at least some of the mirror world molecules would behave similarly, having slightly different effects than our food if digestible at all.

@bsadewitz

10 ай бұрын

@@casadelosperrosstudio200mirror world would be the same because e everything is mirrored (?)

I appreciate that he knew how simple the answer was but made it seem More complex.

@frenchjamdawg

Жыл бұрын

this answer needs to be more complex

@_S.H_

Жыл бұрын

I agree, the answer could have been presented in a different and simpler way.

@lenaotaku5905

10 ай бұрын

Yes. Our eyes see what the light bounces on and that case the mirror. We see in 3D so leaning forward we see the rest of the space in that case the reflection.

@MindlessTube

10 ай бұрын

​@@frenchjamdawgnot really If u can't explain something in a way a 6 year old would understand then U really don't fully understand it your self.

@BarkerVancity

7 ай бұрын

the fact you need this explained at all is embarrasing @@MindlessTube

The worst part is the way people describe it as the mirror “knowing” something

"Never go into a mirror" I'm glad that glass is keeping me from suddenly falling into the mirror world.

@warrentan831

11 ай бұрын

Don't get pulled by mirror monsters

Interestingly, some chiral compounds are used as sweeteners because while they can taste equally as sweet, they don’t have any calorific value (to our bodies) or significantly less (due to enzymes still working at certain bonds) for the same reasons you described with amino acids.

@russellzauner

Жыл бұрын

and that's why they mess with our bodies regulatory systems and subsequently can trigger unusual reactions that seem out of the blue - it's just our systems being confused and regulating incorrectly. Wow, that really sounds like type 2 diabetes and they weren't even eating sugar.

This is the same reason why your reflection in a spoon is upside down. If you look at the tip of the spoon, the angle that it's reflecting the light is towards your chin, and the bottom of the spoon is pointed towards your forehead. Repeat that over the entire surface of the inside of the spoon and you get your upside down image. Which also happens to be reflected opposite to a regular mirror from right to left. You can test this by touching one of your cheeks and see your reflection touch the opposite cheek.

@russellzauner

Жыл бұрын

What's in the mirror if there is no visible light?

@austinmoore245

Жыл бұрын

@@russellzauner I don't know for sure, but the fact that you can see heat signatures with a thermal camera in a mirror would mean that the mirror reflects infrared light as well as light in the visible spectrum.

@Kelly_Jane

Жыл бұрын

@@austinmoore245 And here I would have imagined the mirror universe would be cold. Visible-spectrum Bias at its finest.

@karma4U2

Жыл бұрын

There is no spoon. It is not the spoon that bends light, it is only yourself.

"You can eat things like normal, but you'd keep feeling hungry like you're never getting enough food." Oh shit, I live inside a mirror.

So, I'm assuming if the paper was thick enough or wide enough it would block the reflection because it would interfer with the reflective angle needed to see it?

It can help to realize that the reflection of the gum is not coming from "behind" the paper. The mirror is flat, and the reflection is coming from the flat surface closest to you. It looks impossible if you forget that the mirror has no depth, it is flat.

@Supremax67

Жыл бұрын

I only came here for the lulz. But your explanation works too

@alainmarroquin5742

Жыл бұрын

this is the actual reason why people is confused, and this is the answer they need, thanks.

I watched the intro clip at least three times with the question "How does what know what's there?" I didn't see anything out of the ordinary at all lol. It's amazing the "quality" content that can go viral when there's kids making it and kids watching it.

@bigsmall246

Жыл бұрын

I mean, it shows the level of intelligence of those kids, and also the state of science education in the US.

@Nulley0

Жыл бұрын

I was like, yo just imagine the light rays, they are simple with mirrors that are flat too

@g0nzal0id

Жыл бұрын

@@bigsmall246 they believe the mirror is sentient or what?? wouldnt it be terrifying if the object didnt show behind the paper sheet?

@glarynth

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I need a little nap after that

@livebungusreaction

Жыл бұрын

Same I was wondering if it showed the back of the gum I couldn’t see what was wrong lmao

Great side story about chirality. First part was quite obvious to me, but also interestingly presented with lasers and lidar

the whole living in the mirror world thing would be a great premise for a psychological horror

Some people did not go to school, but most likely general education fails in most part of the population

@AerialAge

Жыл бұрын

you need to go to school to know how mirrors works ? they just need to turn on the brain and go off social media .

@_BangDroid_

Жыл бұрын

TikTok is the problem, it's designed to turn westerners into medieval peasants who think basic science is sorcery

@Valcuda

Жыл бұрын

@@AerialAge yeah, I was never taught exactly how mirrors worked, yet a bit of experimentation, and I realized "Hang on! A mirror kinda acts as a window to a flipped version of the world!"

@jelly.212

Жыл бұрын

As if you are so smart lol

@whyamiwastingmytimeonthis

6 ай бұрын

They were likely homeschooled

i love how you take small minded questions seriously and put them into perspective (no pun intended) and then even manage to connect it to interesting facts of nature! you're a real scientist ❤

@thedislikebutton1907

Жыл бұрын

and make money...

@ashtronut676

Жыл бұрын

@@thedislikebutton1907 we all need to, don't we?

@gangstaboy9387

Жыл бұрын

​@@thedislikebutton1907yeah he should do this for free just for people like you. That's the only way how he can prove to the world what a good person he is

@jcmurr2669

Жыл бұрын

The fact that she wanted to know and then asked the question literally makes her smarter than anyone who thinks its a small minded question. In fact exponentially smarter. Why is it a small minded question? Answer that question and it will back up what I said.

@ashtronut676

Жыл бұрын

@@jcmurr2669 i disagree. if you understand how a mirror works you can easily see how that question doesn't make any sense... it just shows she's never really thought about it.

The fact people don’t know that eggs are big enough to reflect light at a shallow angle across the mirror making it visible at those angles astounds me. Like if you put a sticker, sure the mirror doesn’t show it because the light reflected off of it doesn’t hit the mirror no matter which way you look at it. An egg (or any other decently big object) if you imagine light shining off of it as a bunch of lines, does contact the mirror at certain angles allowing you to see them AT those angles. This is why smaller objects require a shallower angle, because they reflect off the mirror at only those position.

"HoW dOeS iT kNoW?!" High school experiments going viral shows the level of average intelligence

I've just been re-reading Alice Through The Looking Glass. Lewis Carroll was obviously aware of just what you were telling us in the first part of this video, that the parts of the Looking Glass world that you can't see from this side are *undetermined*; but instead of filling them with blank white space he populated them with extraordinary characters and impossible events. Don't think he knew about chirality, though...

@Signal_in_the_noise

11 ай бұрын

Deleuze has an entire book on the work of Lewis Carroll called The Logic of Sense….probably the deepest most complex writing ever composed regarding concepts within the Carroll universe. Extremely difficult text but worth the effort if you enjoy challenging works of philosophy

I'm just impressed you explained this without any condescension at all.

@holywatergum6890

Жыл бұрын

Totally

@Max_Jacoby

Жыл бұрын

Ikr, I would facepalm at least

@o0o-jd-o0o95

Жыл бұрын

I personally think the condescension is a much needed thing. It's like telling a fat person that they're not fat and they're perfectly fine when in fact it looks like they're gonna have a heart attack every time they try to move. Sometimes feelings need to be hurt if in fact you care about these people

@chrisleggatt3240

Жыл бұрын

​@o0O-JD-O0o There are many people reading this that wish to respond, but they don't care enough about you to do so.

@drob128

Жыл бұрын

@@o0o-jd-o0o95 There are better ways to convey those ideas than condescension. This video is a good demonstration.

how do some people not know how mirrors work lol

This went a whole other direction I didn’t anticipate😮 awesome

0:35 the tiktok videos are just low key flexing of their $6 gum

@DevenHamlin56871

Жыл бұрын

Lol

I'm not sure if I should be thankful this is out there, or sad that it needs to be.

@jcmurr2669

Жыл бұрын

Well if you think its sad that it needs to be that would be a bad thing. Any person who feeds a hunger for knowledge they dont have is ALWAYS a good thing. The fact that what any of us know is always much less than what we dont know. There is so so so much more that people know then there is things that we do know. So thinking someone is dumb for asking a question is dumb. Smarter people do not overestimate how smart they are. That is something that dumb people do. You had a good comment and I think you know the answer to it. Peace!

@huzzzer6083

Жыл бұрын

​@@jcmurr2669 Well said

@sweetreamer5101

Жыл бұрын

@@jcmurr2669 Nah, there are in fact stupid questions. Someone who can't understand this mirror example innately is never going to use their knowledge to create anything of value (unless they're like, 5 years old). Personally, I think adults like this should be put on boats and left to drift into the ocean; or airdropped into Australia.

@russellzauner

Жыл бұрын

I'm sad that people are feeling pretty smug when sometimes what's behind the paper isn't what you think (it's just what you see). If nobody questions what they see, then nothing new is discovered, and if you have been told what a thing is by someone else then your cognitive bias is unavoidable when coming up with "your own" result. We can look, but we still just assume. We can look behind the paper, without moving. Maybe there is something we didn't expect there. Ghost imaging (also called "coincidence imaging", "two-photon imaging" or "correlated-photon imaging") is a technique that produces an image of an object by combining information from two light detectors: a conventional, multi-pixel detector that doesn't view the object, and a single-pixel (bucket) detector that does view the object.[1] Two techniques have been demonstrated. A quantum method uses a source of pairs of entangled photons, each pair shared between the two detectors, while a classical method uses a pair of correlated coherent beams without exploiting entanglement. Both approaches may be understood within the framework of a single theory.[2]

@otallono

Жыл бұрын

@@jcmurr2669 they're making viral videos trying to make people question something that they most likely understood otherwise. People are being fooled in to thinking a mirror is not just a flat plane reflecting light but some kind of 3 dimensional space, that is why it's sad. If you first thought that the reflection was BEHIND the object rather than next to it, that's extremely sad and an indication of a drastic dumbing down of society. You've got to admit, when everyone's face is glued to their smart phones all day, they'll probably lose touch with reality. We didn't have that problem so much a decade ago. If these were children, then you'd have a point and I'd agree.

I instantly and perfectly understood mirrors from the moment I shot the Duke Nukem 3D Freezethrower from around the corner in the mirror to freeze the monster on top of the toilets.

Honestly, the fact you had to answer this question really says something about people's education.

@rachelhutchinson5464

Жыл бұрын

yes! theres a huge difference in education quality in the US. It could also be that the students didnt fully understand or didnt have too much care for this small sect of science and it didnt get committed to memory. We are all so different and beautiful, and I love seeing people learn and grow in these things!

@Fipsh

Жыл бұрын

@@rachelhutchinson5464 🤨

@sheshasaibabagujjari3481

Жыл бұрын

@@rachelhutchinson5464 are you serious? Are you justifying the dumbness of these people? I am pretty sure a beluga whale with no degree can understand how this works. It's common sense not even science. Mirrors are so simple. If you can look at something through mirror, that means light is falling on it and reflecting. Simple as that. And without even knowing anything I love how everyone assumes they are from US 😂

My grandmother had a very large mirror on the wall in her living room. As a child I used to spend quite a bit of time staring into it looking at the doorway behind me, the backwards stairs and the front door. I used to imagine going up those stairs beyond what I could see, and wondering if it would be different to the real world. Somehow, there was something slightly surreal about that identical but backwards world. My guess is that it's to do with the way the brain processes that scene which is so familiar yet so different. It's obvious to me that this is what influenced Lewis Carroll to write Through the Looking Glass.

@organist1982

Жыл бұрын

I had similar thoughts as a child! Of course, you could just take a hand mirror up those stairs and into the other rooms to see what they would look like in a mirror image (or cell phones in selfie mirror mode).

@mx.yellow

Жыл бұрын

one time, my sister changed apartments on the same building and she got a room on the other side of the building and when I went to visit her my brain was a little confused as to why this felt so familiar yet so foreign to me lol it took a while to process it was just the same place but everything was flipped

@larryroyovitz7829

Жыл бұрын

Liminal spaces.

@OneEyedJacker

Жыл бұрын

All the physics in that reflected world are not the same as the original world.

@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman

Жыл бұрын

​@@OneEyedJacker damn, so I could be op there?

Like all of his content, The Action Lab had us so intrigued about the topic, I nearly missed his comedic, yet brilliant shirt! Art Vandelay, of Vandelay Industries. The best latex "importer" and "exporter" in the business! 😂🤣😂

So these "geniuses" acknowledge that a piece of paper can obstruct the view of a smaller object hidden behind it. They likely also understand the concept of looking around an obstacle to see what's behind it. Yet they are stumped when the object is no longer hidden when the viewpoint shifts so that it looks around the obstacle? What?

Definitely my favorite Star Wars Novel. 😂 Seriously though, love this channel

@themysteriousunknownrevealed

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 star trek wars!

I love the way you said "never go into the mirror." It had a lot of humour in it.👌🏻

@stanleybochenek1862

Жыл бұрын

Matrix

@12saltstar

Жыл бұрын

I was just trying to find this comment

@maxttk97

Жыл бұрын

Yeah he just can't hold it in😂

Glad i explained it correctly to my friends but not as detailed as this one 😅😅😅..well, i think people who asked this questions might have missed it during science class but at least this topic caught their attention as a refresher 😊😊

Star wars? Star wars? My friend, this means WAR!

I've been fascinated with mirrors and how they work ever since I was little and had a hand mirror sitting on the floor. I wondered how I was able to see things reflected at such strange angles. I always appreciate your videos and explanations!

@paulaharrisbaca4851

Жыл бұрын

You sound like the kind of kid who would hang upside down over the side of the sofa and imagine walking on the ceiling the way I did.... or looking at a painting and wondering was around the bend in a river (for example) in a landscape painting my mom used to hang over the same sofa and I'd gaze at it for minutes on end inventing various places the bend in the river might go to, most of them being something like Oz. I could even imagine the sound of the leaves crunching and the smell of the muddy riverbank.

@arifbagusprakoso2308

Жыл бұрын

You love mirrors? then I would recommend his video about "why mirror only reflect writing horizontally?". (Kinda forgot wether this video is actually ActionLab's, Veritasium's, or Steve Mould's)

@aurelienyonrac

Жыл бұрын

❤ love ya

@maxttk97

Жыл бұрын

Didn't you go to school?

@AlteredStateGaming

Жыл бұрын

@@paulaharrisbaca4851 I feel so called out right now with that walking on the ceiling comment. 😂 But absolutely was I that kind of kid.

Spock is my favourite Star Wars character- so fascinatingly logical! 🤩

@samhodge7460

Жыл бұрын

Back then, it was pretty progressive for a TV character to be half-Vulcan and half-Jedi

If you hung a string from the part thats reflecting it to the container it becomes super clear why it's being reflected.

I swear the people acting as though they’re the shining beacon of intelligence couldn’t even explain why this happens beyond just saying it’s a mirror. Take any random person from any country and show them the reflection of the mints placed directly on the mirror. Afterwords, slide a paper beneath the mints and have them explain why they still see the mints. Adding in the paper would likely confuse a lot of people that never thought much into reflections.

Great video as always! It is a little disheartening how the educational system has failed so badly. I’m pretty sure this information (minus the chemistry bit) was taught in science 101. So unfortunate that the schools are failing kids upwards (letting them into the next grade without meeting the required criteria) as a result of parents getting personally offended when they’re told that their kid failed to learn the material. It’s a good thing channels like Veritasium are around to pick up where schools come up short!

@probablysomeguy4806

Жыл бұрын

Some schools are no longer teaching evolution in their classrooms so I’m sure this will get worse.

@PADARM

Жыл бұрын

Didn't you hear the news? now the new trend is not the flat earth but the mirrors are fake and UN and NASA are behind them

@Havron

Жыл бұрын

Sadly, all according to plan by those political entities who stand to profit from a voting base unable to think for themselves.

@CommanderNissan

Жыл бұрын

I don’t remember this from elementary science, but you do learn it in high school physics. Elementary science is much more basic fundamentals like the water cycle.

@ThatsMySkill

Жыл бұрын

@@CommanderNissan i mean i learned in elementary that on a shiny surface, the angle of incidence is the same as the angle of reflection. thats all i needed to know and my brain just did the rest. i find it mind boggling that people actually dont understand how a mirror works.

3:44 just imagine how we would be shocked and thrilled if we saw the drawers on the other side

People not knowing how a mirror works is incredibly depressing

5:39 BRUH. I was so confused why Spock was in Star Wars but then realized you called Star Trek, Star Wars.

I think one reason this was so confusing to these kids is because they are used to seeing a similar effect on their phone’s screen using the selfie camera. The main difference is your phone generates that image from a single frame of reference, but a mirror essentially has infinite frames of reference.

@chrism3784

Жыл бұрын

yes. growing up in the age before camera phones, I can easily see how you can see the pack of gum where they were standing.

1:00 Looks like a dumb question at first... and at second, and third... Yeah, still a dumb question. Gee. Slow day in science.

@hhjpegg

Жыл бұрын

Asking about seemingly simple things is how we learn more about the world.

@LightStrikerQc

Жыл бұрын

@@hhjpegg I guess, if only people were listening to the answers.

That was not a dumb question at all! It's wonderful to see a human become fascinated by nature and find it mysterious! It's a feeling I go for all the time. When you go deep enough, every question is silly and brilliant at the same time

Imagine seeing everything instantly vanish behind the paper including your hands.

The explanation would have been easier with a diagram showing an angle of reflection and how it intersects with a straight line to the object in the mirrored world

If every school has a science teacher like you.....there would be more scientists in world

@inside_us936

Жыл бұрын

Dia sudah menjadi guru. Tanpa terbatas institusi sekolah. Hanya membuka KZread, anda langsung dapat belajar. Meskipun secara kasar.

@Quantum_mechanica

Жыл бұрын

@@inside_us936 okay?

@yuriwolfvt

Жыл бұрын

I wanted to be a scientist, then I learned it's all paid for and if you find something that doesn't go with the General consensus, you will be shut out.

@Axlken214

Жыл бұрын

Whahaha, I imagine my science teacher promoting something every 10 mins in class.

Idk how you stayed so calm…. I literally lost it and face Palmed when I saw these videos trending.

It looks like it's "behind" the paper, but it's actually off to the side where the light from the gum pack reflects... Exactly how it should work...

So could you breathe with in the mirrored space? If the air molecules are mirrored??

@SpydersByte

2 ай бұрын

dont think air molecules (or more specifically the oxygen, nitrogen, ect) are chiral so yes you could still breathe. I could be wrong though, Im not a chemistry expert.

This is one of the things I wish would get mentioned in SciFi more often. You could find a lush alien world and even if nothing was poisonous you may simply starve to death from not being compatible molecularly. It would make sense.

@somyongkim8237

8 ай бұрын

Master Chief stepped upon the lush greenery of the Halo. He was ready to fight the Covenant and win the war. Then he starved and died because the food on the Halo consisted of D-amino acids and not L-amino acids. 👍

"Never go into a mirror" "beware of false horizons" Edgar Allan Poe had a real hatred of mirrors.

The only exposure I have to this question is denji and power freaking out over it. I thought it was a dumb joke cause we were all taught in highschool how a mirror works…

Thank you for explaining this wayyyy better than I ever could. I've been battling with people who believe the mirrors are portals and other crazy things.

@taylorkurtz1513

Жыл бұрын

Well...they could be portals

@Rebius

Жыл бұрын

@@taylorkurtz1513 yeah, you just have to run fast enough to get through :D

@nimphilia

Жыл бұрын

@@Rebius severe cuts, bruises and brain damage: 🍷🗿

@zach11241

Жыл бұрын

You didn’t run fast enough

@gesarts3625

Жыл бұрын

@@taylorkurtz1513 please stop

Wow, the food issue was what I first thought of and yet did not expect you to cover. Mirror universe could be a fun/profitibable trip to the pharmacy. In mirror world you could buy meth over-the-counter since we use its chemical mirror, levomethamphetamine, as a common nasal decongestant.

@EGRJ

Жыл бұрын

Okay, but when you'd bring it back, it would turn into regular decongestant.

@MizunoKetsuban

Жыл бұрын

@@EGRJ If that's what happens, then the entire issue of being incompatible with mirror-image chemicals is null and void. Because what you're basically suggesting is that going into the mirror at all turns you into a reflection.

Actually mirrored proteins sometimes come into existence when proteins are synthesized in a lab. Same holds true for anything synthesized in a lab that isn't symmetric and where we don't know a method to guarantee only one kind is created. This was the problem with Thalidomide (aka Contergan). The +R version of Thalidomide has a sedative effect and is otherwise relatively harmless; that's why it was sold as over the counter sleeping aid. As it also helped against nausea, it was recommended to pregnant women. The problem is that there's also the mirrored -S version, which has no desired effect but it has the undesired effect to block VEGF (Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor). And when VEGF is blocked in early fetus within the first three months of pregnancy, this has very severe consequences, as it prevents certain body parts from growing properly or from growing at all. Everything synthesized in a lab has the danger of producing mirrored versions of a product that would never appear in nature. If you synthesize sugar in a lab, 50% of the sugar will be the mirrored version, which is harmless to our body (at least from what we know as of today) but it also has no value to our body; we cannot produce any energy from that kind of sugar or transform it into something else, like fatty acids.

What would happen if you enter a mirror? You enter a Mirror Dungeon, Dante

Love how you added the bit about chirality on proteins and used two different technologies to visualize!

Exactly the question I entertained around a month ago. I wager mirror oxygen and water would work just fine, but lack of nutrients would cause starvation sooner than prion-like inversion cascades would show their symptoms.

@ChallengeTheNarrative

Жыл бұрын

One slice of pizza would not sustain energy a good duration in any case.

@chrism3784

Жыл бұрын

unless you ate mirror food which would be reflected and be fine for you to eat

This went from a mirror image to eating isomeric foods. Ingenious way to sell those meals.

Things i have learned today i didn´t know: - Handys have LiDAR now - the Mirror Universe is deadly because you would starve

"Since when does gum cost six dollars?!" is now my favorite Action Lab line cuz man, you spoke for all of us

This is a much nicer way of describing this. The Lidar was a nice touch. If someone was inverted (mirrored) like Spock would we even be able to see them?

@CommanderNissan

Жыл бұрын

Well, yes. But only the side not facing us.

I had never heard of that mirror protein problem before. Totally rocked my world 😮

Mirrors are Self-Reflections of YOUR portrayal irregardless of what you do and can drive you mad

I've seen a lot of science youtubers explaining this, and I honestly cannot believe it. How is it possible that such a dumb question has to be answered so many times?

That's really interesting about mirror image food. I never really thought about that. It was really cool to see what it would look like in the mirror side ❤❤❤

@maxttk97

Жыл бұрын

Yeah the mirror image food thing was smart.

HOW DOES THE MIRROR KNOW?! Time to pull out the lasers 😎

I love how he answers a dumb question with a dumb answer at the end "How does the mirror KNOW it's there??" "This is your official warning: never go into a mirror."

I'm kind of surprised (ok maybe not surprised) that not everyone figures this out soon after noticing the "trippy" effect. Kind of like "why don't mirrors reflect vertically?" The best part was moving through the lidar scan into the mirror universe lol, I enjoyed that.

Fascinating video. I never knew that lidar could measure behind a mirror. Does this mean that there is potential for lidar images to be incorrect if there is a lot of reflective material in the measured area?

Beautifully explained with undertanding and humility. Embarrassed to say i shook my head and scoffed at the original video. You sir are a gentleman and help bring the world together. Meanwhile I need to have more patience.

Clearly not enough time in class. 😂😂😂😂😂

I just want to see explanation how light works/bends... but you discussed about literaly walking inside the mirror, significance of chirality of proteins, and startrek. F*ckng amazing! 🔥

The fact that people actually sent the video to The Action Lab asking to explain this is kind of embarrassing imo

@heybemyeyes

Жыл бұрын

we are in the TikTok era of philosophers, it's hard to them to come with explanation for mundane life experiences, like how mirrors work

@_BangDroid_

Жыл бұрын

@@heybemyeyes China is loving it

@heybemyeyes

Жыл бұрын

@@_BangDroid_ hahaha great insight, let's see in 2033 when this generation gets older, what they will achieve, all thx to the algorithm

Of all the possible horrors of a mirror dimension I really didn’t expect starvation but the more you know.

For a moment, this video when complete on Vsauce when you go with one peculiar question and leave with thousands more after it is done.

lidar part just made everything more confusing... Now im imagining my mirror as a less rendered version of my bathroom

5:33 “In the 1970’s STAR WARS novel” Are we doing a little trolling or was this a genuine mistake? Lol

00:08 Я в шоке! Такие люди бывают???

@SpaceflightSimulator

Жыл бұрын

Same, some people just aren’t intelligent!

The video we didnt want nor need😂..how do i compliment this video bruv!?

If you could enter a mirror's image you wouldn't notice ANYTHING weird, as you yourself would get mirrored as well. This means that looking back makes things look mirrored but you and words you see and proteines you consume would be in the relatively right orientation again. But luckily you can't get into any mirror because there's always the mirrored version of you which presses you back out exactly as hard as you press into the mirror.

@stephenclark6236

Жыл бұрын

Stupid mirror-me! Get out of my way!

@mjmulenga3

Жыл бұрын

I like the thought that the mirrored version presses you back out of the mirror.

@Lampe2020

Жыл бұрын

@@mjmulenga3 That's (I think) also how many animals see that (humans are also animals but they live differently to most other species), just another one of them pressing them back.

@k_tess

Жыл бұрын

I don't think that's true. From what I understand just inverting the chirality of every chemical and protein in our body, the chemistry would no longer function correctly.

@chalichaligha3234

Жыл бұрын

@@k_tess If everything is inverted it should all still work. It's when there's a chirality mismatch that problems arise.

I understood light better when I learned about path tracing and global illumination. Once we understand that all light hitting the eye or a camera has to have a visible path to it, we can trace back the angles to show where things are going and coming from.

I like it how it went from a silly question to how you would starve to death in a mirror world lol

I'm going to be honest this shows how people diffidently didn't listen in science class, or learn how light bounces.

The fact that this has to be explained makes me lose faith in the path our society is taking

@whosthevictim367

Жыл бұрын

exactly.

@tobiasmattsson9285

Жыл бұрын

​@@tiepup they should've discovered this shit in preschool

@AerialAge

Жыл бұрын

same thought , we are completely doomed.

@Natural_Power

Жыл бұрын

​@@tiepup "How is the mirror aware of what's not right in front of it" isn't a question that leads to innovation though This lack of insight is what leads to flat earthers, not scientists

@aeojoe

Жыл бұрын

Ikr Not to sound like an ahole, but what was she expecting?