You Don't Know How Mirrors Work

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  @ScienceAsylum · 6 years ago · pinned

  <b>Clarification:</b> In my quantum animations, that is not multiple photons taking different paths. It is a <i>single photon</i> taking multiple paths simultaneously. We&apos;re releasing only one photon at a time. Adding those phasor arrows together gives us the <i>probability</i> of receiving a single photon at any given moment.<br><br><b>Minor Correction:</b> I show the paths leaving the source at the same time and arriving at the detector at different times, when it should actually be the other way around. Paths that take more time should be leaving the source earlier in order to arrive at the detector at the same time as the others. The reason we can add the phasor arrows together is because the paths arrive at the detector at the same time.

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• LO

  @louis-philip · 6 years ago

  I thought I understood mirrors. I understand mirrors even less now. And that&apos;s a compliment.

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  @FriedrichHerschel · 6 years ago

  What I liked is that the explanation went gradually deeper into it, &quot;layer by layer&quot;, from the macroscopic law of reflection to a single photon ... with a few steps in between. It&apos;s propably the best way to educate a general audience.

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• ZD

  @Zdman2001 · 6 years ago

  The best videos are when you take something you think you understand and apply Quantum Mechanics to it. &nbsp;It&apos;s a mind blower every time.

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• MR

  @mrmkl9839 · 6 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYLzxcU6ROM&amp;t=8">0:08</a> &quot;They seem like they&apos;re pretty easy to understand... OR ARE THEY?!&quot; 😂🤣 I sense Michael here

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• CH

  @ChrisandBobsAdventureChannel · 6 years ago

  Every video you produce feels like a single piece of an insanely large jigsaw puzzle. This video is definitely an edge piece!

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• CI

  @CitizenOfTheWorld2025 · 6 years ago

  “Mirror, mirror on the wall, was is the probability that I can see myself at all?

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• KA

  @karlvuleta · 6 years ago

  I definitely understand how mirrors work, thank you!<br><br>10 minutes later: okay, maybe I didn&apos;t..

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• SW

  @swaree · 6 years ago

  Therapist: Symmetrical Einstein isn&apos;t real, he can&apos;t hurt you<br>Symmetrical Einstein: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYLzxcU6ROM&amp;t=60">1:00</a>

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• CA

  @carpcarpbread · 6 years ago

  This video is a great example of quantum mechanics used in everyday lives: as for that last question, I’m in a superposition of yes and no.

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• TA

  @tachzusamm · 5 years ago

  Man, you can&apos;t guess how many explanations I&apos;ve seen in my life why mirrors don&apos;t flip - but the example with text on a sheet of paper which you watch from the backside was THE eye-opener. Bravo.

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  @ulti-mantis · 6 years ago

  &quot;It&apos;s okay to be a little crazy&quot;<br>Quantum physics takes that phrase and runs with it at the speed of light through all possible paths simultaneously...

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