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Infinity?

posted 8 years ago by Gooeey
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When you see someone taking video footage of you in a screen behind you you see an infinite number of increasingly smaller versions of you. Infinite or not?

I don't have a video, but I suspect it is similar to this where it shows a repeating image of the guitarist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ7wdhZ4Ti8#t=3m59s

The idea is that under the right conditions, this repeating image can continue into infinity without adjustments and that you might conceivably be staring at the infinite. In this case, I believe the guitarist would just overlap every other mirror image of himself thus nullifying an infinite number of him if the angles were correct but I'm sure you can look into a screen showing an image of the screen over and over without any overlap.

EDIT: Actually, found this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4HfvQodCM4 Is it true infinity? 

Cover up: http://www.geocities.ws/rotafan/video.html (in short: 7:23 and 18:43)

[–] elephuntingun 8 years ago

Isn't it like a barber shop mirror?

The image always ends up disappearing behind your line of sight?

But if you were invisible it wouldn't you able to see behind your line of sight?

Would shrink to the lowest numbers of pixels.

But with a perfectly optical mirror it wouldn't it shrink past the microscopic and stop
at a single wavelength of light?

http://tinyurl.com/9-simple-easy-guacamole-recip

[–] ant-mac 8 years ago

One small point...

If you were invisible, there'd be no image of you to reflect to infinity and beyond.

Regards,

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command.

[–] elephuntingun 8 years ago

I think this could be one of those unanswerable questions like the cat in the box
or whether the light is on or off when the refrigerator door closes.

Scientists have answered that other age old question though.

http://www.themusicsource.org/images/products/detail/45271.jpeg

http://tinyurl.com/9-simple-easy-guacamole-recip

[–] ant-mac 8 years ago

Actually, that's wrong.

The egg came first.

ant-mac

[–] elephuntingun 8 years ago

I don't claim to be a Casanova or a World Class Chef, but you honestly tell me
that really looks like the face of a satisfied egg?

http://www.themusicsource.org/images/products/detail/45271.jpeg

http://tinyurl.com/9-simple-easy-guacamole-recip

[–] ant-mac 8 years ago

I was speaking in evolutionary terms, not comedic ones.

Sorry, I should have been clearer.

ant-mac

[–] elephuntingun 8 years ago

Sorry, I should have been clearer.

No need to be sorry.

Curious though, what threw you?

The scientific testimonial I posted?

http://tinyurl.com/9-simple-easy-guacamole-recip

[–] ant-mac 8 years ago

"No need to be sorry."

Really?

In that case, *beep* you. 

"Curious though, what threw you?"

I'm not sure, it was dark and I didn't really get a good look at it.

"The scientific testimonial I posted?:

That must've been it.

ant-mac