Have I ever posed this question to yall?

Winter

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Not sure. Anyway...

Imagine two mirrors facing each other. What is reflected?
 
Or maybe you mean an infinite and gradually diminuting series of mirrors in each one?
 
But would there be a way to see two mirrors face to face without obstructing it and seeing only the reflection?
 
hmm, I reconsider my answer and I think there is ABSOLUTELY nothing to see, NO REFLECTION, IF..IF there is nothing around the mirror,like a frame or something !!
 
An important aspect left out of the question was what the distance of the mirrors are from each other. If they were just stuck face to face to each other, it may not relect anything due to the lack of light. But if there was a considerable gap between the face of the mirrors, the mirrors will probably reflect each mirror infinetly, as mentioned, also including the mirror edges and what's around it in the background, due to the gap.

Keiichi

:D
 
Keiichi said:
An important aspect left out of the question was what the distance of the mirrors are from each other. If they were just stuck face to face to each other, it may not relect anything due to the lack of light. But if there was a considerable gap between the face of the mirrors, the mirrors will probably reflect each mirror infinetly, as mentioned, also including the mirror edges and what's around it in the background, due to the gap.

Keiichi

:D

Actually, no.

Important details like that were purposely left out of the question. When you start giving logical, concrete details like that, it narrows the potential methods of thought that was originally the purpose of the question. The question isnt posed for an answer. Its a question that is supposed to give the ponderer the chance to think outside of concrete thought and explore the infinite depths of abstract thinking.
 
Winter said:
Not sure. Anyway...

Imagine two mirrors facing each other. What is reflected?

Simple, by putting two mirrors together, the gate to Hell would appear between the two mirrors and the image of Hell would be reflected forever.

Actually, can't you use one of those mirrors where you can see in on one side but on the other side, it acts like a conventional mirror? Use that and another mirror and you can look into the other mirror and see whats beign reflected.
 
Makes me wonder...

If it would be totally blank, then what would blank look like? Would it look like the blackness of space?
 
Glenn: Exactly.

This is actually the course the question is supposed to take the thinkers.
 
Glenn: Nothing would be the absense of everything. But then again what is everything? Has one truly seen everything?
 
Alright, I should have been more specific. What would nothing look like? Try to imagine nothing. If it's the absence of everything, then it almost seems to be oxymoronic. Absence of light would be black, but you have black. To make black absent, you would need light. Or maybe I'm just retarded. :p
 
Hummmm !!!!

Glenn said:
Alright, I should have been more specific. What would nothing look like? Try to imagine nothing. If it's the absence of everything, then it almost seems to be oxymoronic. Absence of light would be black, but you have black. To make black absent, you would need light. Or maybe I'm just retarded. :p

Come over real close to me. Now, look deep into my ear and see true nothingness!!

Frank

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Nothing is the absence of anything. So if nothing has lost anything or everything, then how can it be reflected if there isnt anything to reflect? All that is reflecting is nothing, but how can something be reflected if it doesnt exist? Nothing doesnt exist, because it is the absence of everything; yet it casts a reflection, thereby suggesting it exists.

Nothing can become something...?

I love circular logic, dont you?
 
"Nothing doesn't exist." :D:D:D That's great! So I guess "nothing" is like perfection, a nice idea, but it doesn't exist. :?:D:p
 
Yes, I think perfection is nothingness and therefore perfection doesn't exist; since perfection doesn't exist and God is perfect, well, God doesn't exist, right?
 
Legato said:
Yes, I think perfection is nothingness and therefore perfection doesn't exist; since perfection doesn't exist and God is perfect, well, God doesn't exist, right?

Bingo.

I could kiss you for jumping to that conclusion so quickly.
 
Oh I didn't jump to a conclusion this is part of a long train of thoughts that I've been working on, and brought me to all kind of similar hypothesis. It's amazing though that a question about mirrors could bring such discussion, well done indeed. By the way, about the mirrors, if they spread to infinity and are perfectly parallel, then, what you would see is not nothingness but infinity, but since there is no way you can see between two mirrors that spread to infinity you never realize what infinity can be, it's like trying to see the entire universe all at once. Now that didn't make much sense.
And please, no kisses it would make me feel uneasy... 😲
 
A question about anything brings discussion :). But I would have to go with what was said, they would reflect each other infinite.
 
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