To clarify my wife is extremely smart but doesn’t get mirrors. She thinks if we are looking at each other from just the right angle that she could see me but I won’t see her. I explained that if I am looking at your eyes then you can guaranteed see mine. I have tried to explain it in a million different ways but am having no luck. Please help.
Edit: Some great answers but I have already tried similar examples. I literally used a laser pointer but she still believes she could find the exact right angle where she can see me but I can’t see her…maybe she is doomed to just never get it. To clarify things she is a trained financial planner than can do some crazy math in her head but this baffles her.
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Here’s how sight works : when you see an object, like someone else’s blue eye, what enters your eyes is the light that was reflected from said object.
Here’s how mirror works : classic mirrors reflect light in a perfectly symmetric way. The light that hits the mirror from a certain angle will bounce back in the exact same angle.
So unless there’s a trick, there’s no way you can catch the light reflected from someone’s eye without your own eye reflecting light towards this person’s own eye.
If you have a laser pointer, you can demonstrate that. Just don’t aim at someone’s eye.
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