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Subject: Inside a spherical mirror
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2000 19:43:31 -0500
From: Brendan Barnett

If a person were to stand (holding a small light) inside of a sphere whose inner surface was a mirror and looked up, what would they see?

Likewise, what would a person standing inside of a similarly-mirrored torus (hollow donut) see?

 

 

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