mirrors

Just found out there's apparently a Penn and Teller videogame called Smoke and Mirrors. Found precious little information about this on imdb.com http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251322/fullcredits Anyone know anything else about this? Might be fun!!

Take a look at he coursework for a particular chiro school: http://www.nwhealth.edu/edprogr/chiro/acadres.html You'll note that there are in fact a few "legit" courses sprinkled here and there amidst the sea of quackery. A common mantra of chiros is that "we took the same courses real medical...

Hello all, In accordance with the discussions held in 'Can photograph effect' topic I want to know:- Can looking into the mirror under light effect scientifically? Reflection from mirror will be somewhat like 'reflection of same photons/energy/wavelengths/colours' as we possess in person...

I heard an argument on talk radio not too long ago, and try as I might, I haven't found a hole in it. I want to present it here and see if anyone can say what's wrong with it. Right now, the taxes collected for Social Security are greater than the benefits paid out to recipients. The...

It turns out that the old master painters were not as clever with the manual dexterity of the brushes as we first thought. But they certainly were very clever with the ingenuity. At first I thought it was a stupid theory, but now I realize that all the tools the old master had were very simple...

We have a little room in the back of the Spiritualist Church where the medium(s) go before they go up onto the platform to demonstrate spirit communication. Up until recently there was a silver rimmed circular convex mirror resembling a satelite dish in the corner of the room. Why do mediums...

An interesting speech was made by the Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi to a joint session of Congress. Comments?

I bought a digital camera the other day and I thought for my first photos that I would take some pictures of some experiments that I did with mirrors a while ago. These all use one foot square unbevelled mirror tiles from the hardward store. The first three photos were composed with one...

As regards to The NCI Cancer Progress Report "The Report Card apart, there are disturbing questions on the reliability of NCI’s incidence statistics. This is well illustrated by wild reported variations since 1973 for the percent changes in the incidence of childhood cancer: 1973-1980...

AUP's son's question about the magnets reminded me of a question I once had to face (and failed to answer in a simple and sufficient way): Since mirrors swap left and right, why don't they swap top and bottom? Zee

Lasers use a lasing source with a mirror on one end, and a partial mirror on the other. How can a mirror reflect some photons yet transmit other identical photons? The photons are coherent, remember... is this some sort of quantum tunneling at work, or something else?