ELi5: If you look into a mirror at a reflection of something far away, are you looking far away or nearby?
In: Physics
* You are looking far away.
* Think about the distance the light has to travel for it to get into your eye balls.
* It has to travel the distance from the object to the mirror, and the distance from the mirror to your eye balls.
* Now it’s easy to see that is much farther away than the distance from just the mirror to your eye balls.
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