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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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