We're back, baby! And we're seeing double! Ring in the new-ish year with us as we reflect on mirrors!
We're back, baby! And we're seeing double! Ring in the new-ish year with us as we reflect on mirrors!
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[The Scientific Definition]
Heliograph
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/04/world-war-i-in-photos-technology/507305/
https://www.nps.gov/fobo/learn/historyculture/the-heliograph.htm
https://books.google.com/books?id=RBC2nY1rp5MC&q=heliograph&pg=PA211#v=snippet&q=heliograph&f=false
Pseudoscope
https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/cinematic/3/
Etalon
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/phyopt/fabry.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/physics-and-astronomy/etalons
https://www.osapublishing.org/ao/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-5-6-985
Reflecting circle
https://amhistory.si.edu/navigation/type.cfm?typeid=5
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstl.1801.0019
Pictures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflecting_instrument#Reflecting_circles
[Trivia Question]
James Webb Space Telescope mirrors
https://webb.nasa.gov/content/observatory/ote/mirrors/index.html
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/telescopes/en/
[Fact Off]
Enantiomers (mirror versions of chemical compounds)
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2004/ch_4.html
https://www.wired.com/2003/11/newsugar/
The Venus Effect (mirror sight-lines)
https://www.bertamini.org/lab/venus.html
[Ask the Science Couch]
Super efficient mirrors
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-physical-proc/
https://news.mit.edu/1998/mirror
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/12/19/laser.surgery/index.html
https://physicsworld.com/a/crystalline-supermirrors-cut-optical-losses/
https://www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=14069
[Butt One More Thing]
Mirror test IBS