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From the Vault: The Invention of the Mirror, Part 1

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Mirror World Is a World of Cirality

The mirror world is a world of reversed cirality. Cirality is a term that's often used to describe like molecules, the handedness of molecules. The versions of images you see reflected in a mirror have opposite cirality of the versions that exist in the real world. A non-reversing mirror can be found by having two mirrors at right angle to each other.

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