When I see a reflection in a mirror, is there any lag between me waving my hand and it appearing in the mirror? Something like .000000000000000000000001 maybe?
Is there lag in mirrors?
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yes there is as the light needs time to travel back and forth
The light would reflect so fast that there would be no practical delay, but light does take time to travel so it wouldn't be instant in reality. The time it would take would be so insignificant that no human could ever detect it with our own eyes.
So simply put, there is a delay in a REALLY short scale of time, but we're talking about some of the smallest units of time we know.
So simply put, there is a delay in a REALLY short scale of time, but we're talking about some of the smallest units of time we know.
You have to deal with the speed of light through whatever medium(s) separate you from the mirror. Based on that speed and the distance separating you from the mirror (times two as the light must travel there and back) give you your propagation delay.
Well if you want to start getting crazy, I always enjoyed toying with the idea of setting up a series of Mirrors around the planet in orbit or something that would give us the ability to look into the past.
Have you checked your Drivers speeds? Are you running Windows or Is this a legit mirror?
Actually no. Because lag isn't the best term to describe speed of light.
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Theres always going to be a latency between your eyes, the mirror (or any surface reflecting light) and your eyes again, but theres never any lag because light is a constant speed that doesn't slow down under normal and most extreme conditions. Theres no lag because you're still getting the light at the fastest speed possible in the laws of physics, so as long as the speed of light can't fluctuate up and down between you and the mirror, then lag doesn't exist, because lag can't exist when something is going so fast that it literally cannot go any faster and at the same time doesn't slow down..
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Theres always going to be a latency between your eyes, the mirror (or any surface reflecting light) and your eyes again, but theres never any lag because light is a constant speed that doesn't slow down under normal and most extreme conditions. Theres no lag because you're still getting the light at the fastest speed possible in the laws of physics, so as long as the speed of light can't fluctuate up and down between you and the mirror, then lag doesn't exist, because lag can't exist when something is going so fast that it literally cannot go any faster and at the same time doesn't slow down..
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Why myopia (short-sightedness) is not fixed when looking into a mirror while the mirror is placed at a short distance from your eyes?
light speed is about 3*10^8 m/s and described by the letter C (like E=MC²)
if you stand at one meter of a mirror, you'll see yourself as you were exactly 2/C, 6.667*10^-9 or 0.00000000667 second earlier
at light speed, it takes:
1.2 to 1.3 sec for a one way to the moon
8 min 20 sec for a one way to the sun
if you stand at one meter of a mirror, you'll see yourself as you were exactly 2/C, 6.667*10^-9 or 0.00000000667 second earlier
at light speed, it takes:
1.2 to 1.3 sec for a one way to the moon
8 min 20 sec for a one way to the sun
There may be a slight delay between you asking the man in the mirror to change his ways and making the world a better place.
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