"How does the mirror know it's there?"
Unfortunately, this inquiry has been excessively raised on the internet lately, and although numerous mirror owners seem puzzled, numerous others mock their hypotheses.
Have you ever gazed into a mirror? If so, you might have noticed that its reflection doesn't remain constant.
Despite the fact that most of us have been aware of this for our entire lives, questions about reflections have gone viral on TikTok, with people placing various objects behind a piece of paper to suggest that mirrors may have more complexities than we previously thought.
Different individuals employed objects like crystals, plugs, and eggs to showcase the phenomenon, yet they all shared the same inquiry: 'How does the mirror know the object is there, when there's a piece of paper blocking it?'
To verify that the mirrors still reflected the hidden object, the perplexed individuals positioned their cameras adjacent to them, leading one to speculate about the existence of a 'mirror world.'
"What if mirrors aren't what we think," they included in their post, which was subsequently shared and heavily criticized on Reddit.
"Clearly very little thinking is happening here," one individual wrote after viewing the video, while another commented: "If this is not trolling then we as humanity are doomed."
A different perplexed spectator expressed: "No way they're that old and legit called it the 'mirror world' unironically."
The fact is that the explanation for why the object remains visible isn't too difficult to comprehend.
It all boils down to perspective and light reflection. The mirror does not have the cognitive ability to recognize what it reflects. It is simply reflecting light. (It's astonishing that I even have to state this.)
Rather, it reflects the incoming light, and the image changes based on the viewpoint from which it is observed.
Light does not strike the mirror as a solitary beam; it arrives from all directions and angles. Despite the presence of the paper, some of the light reflecting off the "hidden" object is still capable of reaching the mirror from the paper's edge.
According to Dr. Sara, an astrophysicist and TikToker, the object's visibility decreases as more light obstructs it.
In conclusion, there is no such thing as a mirror world, although it's amusing to entertain the possibility. Perhaps it's preferable to describe it as frightening?
