MIRRORS

Hello internet. Today I will be talking about mirrors. What makes them so reflective? And mainly, what  color is a mirror?

Now, the question seems kind of stupid. It's a reflective color, so it might be chrome or silver. They're highly reflective, right? Well...not really.

I'll explain it to you this way. Our brain sees colors in the visible light spectrum. We see colors in hertz. Mirrors best reflect light when it's in the 510 hertz range. Which is pretty much falls right into the "green" area. Green is about 520-575 terahertz. So you can say that a mirror is very slightly green. Which explains why when two mirrors are facing each other, what you see in the two mirrors are "tunnels" that get darker and greener  the deeper and deeper into the tunnel.

Sorry for the short post, but here's a video explaining the rest and them some...



Interesting fact of the day: Did you know that you cannot fold a 8.5″ x 11″ or smaller piece of paper in half more than 7 times. Try it!