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Has anyone ever seen this?
Imagine a long wall in your house with a window at the end of it. If it is dark outside and your light is on in the room, you will see your reflection and the reflection of the room outside the window.
But turn and look out the window towards the outside of the wall (the space outside against the wall). This space will show all that stuff inside your house that is against the wall. How does it do that?
I understand how your couch against your window will also appear outside of your window but how does your lamp, which is stuck way in the corner against the wall and not anywhere near your window, show up outside way far from your window?
It is just something to me. How light is traveling and then going all the way back there? or is it just all trapped up in the glass or?
so crazy.
Has anyone ever seen this?
Imagine a long wall in your house with a window at the end of it. If it is dark outside and your light is on in the room, you will see your reflection and the reflection of the room outside the window.
But turn and look out the window towards the outside of the wall (the space outside against the wall). This space will show all that stuff inside your house that is against the wall. How does it do that?
I understand how your couch against your window will also appear outside of your window but how does your lamp, which is stuck way in the corner against the wall and not anywhere near your window, show up outside way far from your window?
It is just something to me. How light is traveling and then going all the way back there? or is it just all trapped up in the glass or?
so crazy.
hunh? are you on drugs? share some.
I follow what you are saying right up to (and including) the first part, i.e., "Imagine a long wall in your house with a window at the end of it. If it is dark outside and your light is on in the room, you will see your reflection and the reflection of the room outside the window", but I'm labouring to understand the second part.
Do you have windows on two separate walls in your living room?
Alright, do this:
put your hand in front of the window, and you'll see your hand on the other side of the window (via reflection).
now put your hand in front of the wall next to your window. (so your hand is in front of the wall and not in front of the window anymore).
now keep your hand in front of the wall but peak your head out the window. you will see your hand on the outside of your house.
You know what else I've never understood? How they get all those people, places and things inside my TV.
LOL Alan.
I noticed it on a bus one day. Everything on one side of the bus, including things about 10 blocks in front of the bus, would show on the opposite side of the bus, through the window, and they would look like they were 10 blocks or more on the other side.
It is just crazy how light will reflect all the way far away. I mean, does it travel all the way down to me and then all the way back to the other side, or does it just look like it is on the other side?
I understand how TV works. I want to know more though.
Sad Eyed Lady
2-10-12, 9:08am
Along the same line as DH one day discovered he could change the TV channels by clicking the remote in the bathroom mirror! (With the door open which meant the mirror was apparently lined up some way with the TV in the living room). The bathroom was just off the hall leading from the living room. Hummm..........amazing things happen.
Double pane windows, maybe (two reflections)?
OK, I think I got you now, Heydude.
ROTFLMAO, Alan! As young kids, we'd make funny faces and things at newsmen on television, sticking our tongues out at them and stuff, then wait for one of them to call mom on the telephone to tattle. We were 100% convinced everyone on TV could see our every move.
Sad Eyed Lady. I remember being at my aunt and uncles place, and my aunt turning on the blender or microwave, and the television channel changing. Must have been just the right frequency.
Another television funny to share. Mom and dad would holler at us kids (from the kitchen) when we played with the channel dial on the television, looking to see what was on all the other channels, so smart as kids are, we got wise to the loud clicking (snapping) sound the dial would make that would draw the attention of mom and dad, and we learned how to push on the dial slightly, then turn it really slowly, so that it wouldn't make any sound. We'd even adjust the volume to cover for our new-found, mischievous practice.
...we played with the channel dial on the television, looking to see what was on all the other channels,
Made me chuckle. We only got one channel and it usually only came in on cloudy (but not raining or snowing) days. Guess the signals must have bounced off the clouds to us, kind of like heydude's lights. Lol.
LOL, Gregg! If my mind serves me well, I sort of remember we had channels, 2, through 9, and then channel 13, and maybe one or two more. Not many, but enough channels to get us into trouble, before we came up with our "silent mode". :laff:
You know what else I've never understood? How they get all those people, places and things inside my TV.
I don't know that one either, but it sure is cool to use the mirror over the sofa (a picture w/glass will work, too) to bounce the remote off of so that we can watch TV from the dining room :)
I don't know that one either, but it sure is cool to use the mirror over the sofa (a picture w/glass will work, too) to bounce the remote off of so that we can watch TV from the dining room :)
Yep, I've been doing that in my bedroom for years and I understand how that works, after all, all light reflects, even infrared. But getting so much stuff into a flat screen, that's a mind boggler.
HeyDude, you're freakin' me out, man! I have noticed exactly what you're talking about, but I just don't wanna figure it out.
Sometimes when the tube is on, I'll think someone is walking up to our door because I see the reflection, in the corner of my eye, of whomever is on the screen reflected in the window. But the window is on an adjacent wall, but not next to it.
It reminds me of a book I read once where the author, in the voice of a young girl, imagined the presence of a ghost visiting her when she saw the light of a passing car glide around her bedroom at night.
Originally posted by KayLRZ.
Sometimes when the tube is on, I'll think someone is walking up to our door because I see the reflection, in the corner of my eye, of whomever is on the screen reflected in the window. But the window is on an adjacent wall, but not next to it.ROTFLMAO! Clear as mud. http://serve.mysmiley.net/confused/confused0006.gif http://th266.photobucket.com/albums/ii269/theogrit/th_1sm031scratch.gif
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