From a flat mirror, designer light: Bizarre optical phenomena defies laws of reflection and refraction
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This article was about the laws of reflection and refraction, and how they affect funhouse mirrors. I thought it was cool because I have seen many funhouse mirrors at carnivals and wondered how they work. Now I know that it is actually light bouncing off the surface of the mirror causing this. When the light is shined at different angles, it can make different effects in the mirror, making you fat, tall, short, or skinny.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of learning about how eyes work in sixth grade. I remember that it had something to do with light, which this is about. It also had to do with things bouncing off of each other. Even though the two things don’t work exactly the same, they are similar because they use things like light, reflecting, and even color.
It makes me wonder if you change the size mirror or type of light if it will create a different effect in the mirror. If the mirror is bigger, will it be a different effect than a smaller mirror? Or will it be the same effect with any size mirror? If the type of light is different, (like fluorescent or LED), will it create a different effect? These are things I would like to know about.
by Elana
This article talked about how scientists at Harvard have figured out how to control the images projected in mirrors without changing the angle of the mirror. They made a new discovery that changes the laws of physics. They figured out how to manipulate the lights bouncing off the mirror to create a different picture.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of Photo Booth on apple products. Photo Booth is a program that allows you to take pictures of yourself on your iPhone/Computer/iTouch. You can take a picture of yourself with affects, like making your head bigger or making yourself partly invisible or making your eyes a different color. This reminds me of Photo Booth because with this new evidence, scientists could figure out how to make that happen with real mirrors.
This makes me wonder about the laws of science in general. The scientists at Harvard just made a new discovery that proved that the laws of physics aren't always true. Are there other laws like that? Are the things that we know about science still true?These are questions that will probably be asked by others now that these scientists at Harvard have made this discovery.
The article talked about how you can control how light reflects off of an object without moving the object. they did this by capturing the light in gold antennas where it then released the light and bends the light so that the light doesn't reflect like you think it would. you can also create pictures with light on flat surfaces like a vortex beam. that's what the scientists at Harvard did.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of a game i saw on a commercial once. i have never actually played it but it was a chess like game where you got people out by reflecting a laser onto them. I think that is really cool and if people created a game where light reflected off flat surfaces, the game would be even more cool.
What the people did at Harvard makes me wonder if we could communicate by doing what people did at Harvard. instead of needing a camera or internet to communicate with someone, they could do what the people did at Harvard and look into a mirror and show up in someone else's mirror. I think that would be a great way to communicate and may happen in the near future.
This article was about a new discovery at Harvard. They reformed the mathematical laws that describe how light moves after reflecting off a surface. They have created a funhouse mirror but on a flat surface.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of sailing. When the boat is turtled (upside-down ) and you look at the water you see the sail on the water but if you look closely you can still see the sail under water.
I wonder how and what they are learning about in class that they decided to ad different medias to make a funhouse mirror. this also makes me think about the future and how much we will have proven wrong of science. For example; lots of people think we won't have flying cars for hundreds of years but if we keep making discoveries to add to or prove wrong science laws that we have now.
This article talked about how scientists at Harvard that made a new discovery. This discovery was about how reflection and refraction affect funhouse mirrors. The scientists changed the law of physics. I found it very interesting because I had never known that before.
ReplyDeleteIt makes me think about the future. If the scientists at Harvard could figure out a loophole, basically in the law of physics, then imagine what they could do when we have even more technology, and other things. It could change the world. It makes me wonder if we could find a similar experiment, and be just as successful.
I wonder if other scientists are finding other experiments that have a similar outcome. Science is awesome, because of all the different outcomes you can get with one experiment. It just makes me think of all the discoveries we could make. Science is amazing.
This article was about a new discovery at Harvard. They redefined mathematical and physical laws. Those laws had to do with how light moves after reflecting off something such as piece of glass or a mirror. The people at Harvard made a regular flat mirror reflect how a "fun house" mirror would
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of how the mirrors on my closet apear to be the same exact mirror but yet reflect a little differently. The mirror on the left side of mof my closest makes you apear taller and leaner! (therefor the mirror ii use when trying to look good) where as the one on the right makes you look shorter!
I wonder if this scientific discovery will be used for more things than tricking people in a fun house into thinking that the funnel cake made them gain some serious lbs! I think it would be VERY interesting to see if it it used in technology such as the advance in holograms, 3d technology or just any item that uses a screen such as laptops, i tocuhes, hand held gaming even tvs! Maybe this new infomration could be used to block out sun from drivers so its safer. Honestly the possibilities could be endless and only time will tell