When one looks into a mirror, one see an image of himself....

When raising one's right hand, the image raises its left. When raising one's left, the image raises its right.

So, why is it that the mirror reverses left and right, but not top and bottom? Why does a mirror appear to invert the left-right directions, but not up-down?

The mirror could be built in a concave way in which all left and right light is reflected to the opposite eyes, but up and down light is not distorted.  Just a thought.

Posted by logischer Verstand on 2004-04-19 18:02:28