
The Invention of the Mirror, Part 1
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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The Mirror World Is a World of Reversed Chirality
The mirror world is a world of reversed chirality. The versions of images you see reflected in a mirror have opposite chirality to the versions that exist in the real world. Anyone who lunged at the mirror with a dagger or sword found their reflection lunging back at them with like-handed weapon. This seems to be an artifact that he would use to explain just merely like the mathematics of perspective and optics.
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