What Color Is A Mirror?

LEARN MORE and, in order of appearence:

Watch Molly dance! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jljYA...

Javier: http://www.youtube.com/user/werevertu...

Loka: http://www.youtube.com/user/LeMondede...

Great web exhibit on the causes of color: http://www.webexhibits.org/causesofco...

"color" vs "colour": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American...

Study on mirror color: http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?...

Bad Astronomy on Mirror-color: http://www.badastronomy.com/mad/1996/...

Great series of mirror tunnels: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikedefi...

Origins of color terms: http://www.worldwidewords.org/article...

Origin of "black": http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?t...

xkcd's color survey: http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color...

Tyndall Effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndall_...

More on scattering: http://www.itp.uni-hannover.de/~zawis...

A CRAZY bird that uses interference on its feathers to look awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS1tEn...

Peacocks also use interference: http://www.webexhibits.org/causesofco...

Fantastic Radio Lab about color terms: http://www.radiolab.org/2012/may/21/s...

Straight Dope on the history of color terms: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/r...

Mirror GIF: http://gifninja.com/animatedgifs/1046...

my favorite color illusion: http://www.archimedes-lab.org/color_i...

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[TheArabassist]

he does something called 'reading'

[ItsTheDark]

So theoretically if we were able to make a "perfect" mirror, and made a mirror tunnel with it, what would we see?

[Fireice2929]

in infinite image of the same background. it wouldn't get dimmer or brighter or greener.

[Jon Peterson]

We should make a perfect mirror, just so that we can make a mirror tunnel that extends forever.

[Katyangel14]

His beard is HUGE

[OfficerRainbowz]

Classic Vsauce. Gives you information on like four other topics and actually makes you think.

[DarkFelix2]

gotta go to brown town

[FatheredPuma81]

Your brain would catch fire first.

[deathzombee]

Hes golden brown town ;P

[TheArabassist]

because one isn't intrinsic to the other? lol

[Andrew Chen]

isn't the glass green not the mirror?

[Richard B.]

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