What Does It Look Like INSIDE a Spherical Mirror?
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- In this video I put a small camera inside a real spherical mirror in order to show what it looks like. Does the light reflect forever? What does the reflection look like? Watch the amazing properties of spherical mirrors in this amazing video.
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Some people wanted me to show you the view of the camera in the middle of the sphere when the spheres were closed. However, this view looks the same as when the camera barely enters the oncoming mirror. At the midpoint is right when the light/camera enters its own reflection. Right at the midpoint is when the camera takes up it's whole field of view. This looks the same whether the sphere is completely open or closed. So the way I did it in the video actually shows all the views you would see moving around inside the sphere.
The Action Lab could you please make a part two of this video where you use a perfect mirror?
Please give me a heart.🙏🏻
What you are duing is amazing and watching your videos have increased my interest towards science,and now i see the world around me very differently.
@@ninjalemon_Squash you copied my wish 😂
How would it look like inside an elliptical mirror??
Now do it with a 360 degree camera. I want to see God
hey, thats illegal!
D J you know how scary it is if someone make this spherical mirror 100x bigger that a person can fit in there... I think it’s way more than we got in this video
@@Tromaxer big brain
That’s what he’ll looks like
Full 360 cameras always have stitching problems, that might limit us seeking god.
If I was invisible, I’d stand between two mirrors and see what it looks like uninterrupted.
You fool.. your hubris will be your downfall!
Likely some lovecraftian shit
It would be completely dark in "closed" circular mirror like this because there is no light source inside it. Remember reflection happens because light source hit the polished surface of shining or polished surface or mirror. Thank you.
@@rishavkhandelwal9323 they are not talking about circular mirrors but regular ones.
@@thecrazystick6717 For that you don't have to be invisible, you can see the reflected image of two regular mirror by standing at a particular angle (As shown in this video ~ 3rd person).
Exploring exotic physics like inside of a field wrapping around itself has never been easy.
This is one of my experiments I thought of when I was a young child 50+ years ago noticing the distortions when I went to a fun house. Anyhow, I soon got to see a two-way mirror and always wondered what it would be like with a two-way mirror sphere; one experiment with reflection on outside and viewing from inside or vice-versa. Wondered then if a two way sphere with the mirror on inside were exposed to sunlight or laser would it generate lots of heat and other fun things. Never got a chance to test ithem...should say play with them.
The issue with two way mirrors is that they arnt actually 2 way mirrors. They work by having one side brighter then the other which causes it to reflect simalarly to how if you look out a window at night with a light on in the room you will see the reflection of the room. This means you wouldn’t be able to do something with shining a laser into the sphere as the inside of the sphere would have to be brighter than the outside to shine
Hey Vsauce, The action lab here
the moment i read the title of this video
i don't know why it reminded me of "Vsauce"
This line clicked as soon as I heard vsauce
Why did I thought I was the only one?
You are awesome
The queen has spoken
"... Comes close, but then just goes back and touches itself again."
- Story of my life right there
LMAO
wait a sec...
Oh no
Hahahahahaha. xD
Why would you say that? Lol
Since my childhood I was wondering what it would look like inside a spherical mirror. Thank you for doing the experiment and to share it.
me too
We got a water bowl for the cats that was mirrored on the inside. Your demonstration starting around 3:15 reminded me of their experience, which I wish I had filmed! :) They both looked into the bowl and leaped backwards, then looked into it again and leaped back but slightly less, and finally got used to it. Actually we haven't had it out in a while, so I'll have a camera ready when we present it to them next! :)
2:47 it's all fun and games until the finger touches you
Nice one 😂
Lol
What body part though.
What are u doing STEPFINGER???
That shit is scary
6:23 casually opens portal to another dimension
And this is how black holes are actually making.
@@krenciak engrish 100
@@p3el_ what if he isn’t a native English speaker and just wanted to type in English so that more people would understand?
Or I’m looking into it too deeply
@@p3el_ says the guy with ぴいる
just do ピエル instead
Agreed, I was thinking "dude, you just broke spacetime!"
What would it look like to have a ball that is mirrored on the inside but transparent from the outside? In other words what would you see from the outside of a mirrored ball if the light initially passed through the ball just enough so that it could bounce around on the inside and then pass back out to be viewed?
I pondered this thought about 30 years ago and it's stuck with me ever since. Now I have to watch the simulation video! I think we need a single, tiny 360 camera with light built-in, but I honestly don't think we'll ever get a true practical example.
i DID TOO
Bigger sphere and like 4-8 go pros!! With different lights on the inside, laser etc etc
i had this idea when i was in highschool, now i can rest in peace...
Same lol I saw this and had to watch it
Lool same!
I had this idea not so long ago and I'm not disappointed
A bit disappointed, because it just reflect the camera itself.
I wonder if there's any way to put the light inside, and then quicly close cover the light source with a mirror, and also being able to see from the outside what happens
@@bruschetta7711 light is super super fast, there's no way we can keep light reflecting inside it closed. That's just physically impossible
Can’t we just make a spherical room with a completely reflective surface that we can stand in? Whoever goes in might come out completely insane but whatever happens, at least it’s another question answered
That’s how you enter the mirror dimension.
That was my thought as well.
My guess for why we have never try to make a room like that is because the materials to make it is very hard to use, so to be able to "bend" (wrong word but idk the word to use) the mirror into a sphere is extremely tough and might be impractical. But this is just a guess with now basis so don't trust me
You would still need a source of light because your body would absorb all the light in an instant (depending on the size of the sphere).
@@KiemPlant doesn't matter how big the sphere is, it would be instant from your perspective. Preeeeetty sure
One of the most beautiful visuals my mind could ever think upon
A human sized mirror experience like this would probably break your brain for a little bit
4:17 Me closing the refrigerator door to see if the light goes out:
same sense of wonder
Same
Same
Same
This brought back some memories
3:45
"Once you fill it around 70 to 80 percent water"
He himself: Overflows the whole spherical mirror.
“Two shots of water”
thrust a small amount of water into the mirror.
I read this as he said it. And noticed it myself lmao.
LMAO!!
He can’t gauge the water level accurately like he said at the beginning
Thank you for your video. Have you ever considered putting a laser in a circularly mirrored room. In the ray optics simulation if the ray is slightly off the radial line the beam bounces filling the whole are with light except at the center that is dark I'll share a pic if your interested.
the bubbles even look like they're going in circles. that's insane. this is so cool
I feel like I just saw the edge of the universe
If we're indeed inside a simulation .. this guy's is really giving the physics engine run for it's money...😂😂
i do not understand this comment
@@al-ft1ng same
@@hallucinati A physics engine is what handles physics in virtual simulations.
@@DJSlimeball Yes. Yes it is. I completely agree with you that THAT is a fact.
@@DJSlimeball it’s just that how is it running for its money?
This was the first time I have ever stopped eating in the middle of a video because I was so mind blown.
6:32 Bro that almost looks like a black hole, just the way it perfectly shimmers the outside while having the darkened inside, it looks like it's straight from a movie (minus the tiny camera of course)
As a little kid I asked my teacher this very question... "if you shined a flashlight into a mirror ball and closed it up, went into a dark room and opened it... would light shine out." All I got was "no"... I wasn't satisfied by the answer and it has popped back into my mind repeatedly thru the years! KUDOS for answering it completely!!!!!
if you want that effect use
glow in the dark paint (yellowgreen is the brightest), costs ~4$ on ebay from china
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also very cool are the glow in the dark tapes, the trick is to put them near a light source (0,5m=1,6feet)
This is not a complete answer. Mirrors can have different quality. What if better quality mirror can actually capture light? And how better it should be?
Here is your answer
www.popularmechanics.com/science/a22824567/box-traps-light/
No mirror is 100% reflective. A little bit of light is absorbed with every bounce off a surface. Light travels so fast that the light disappearing seems instant
there is a video called the black hole bomb by kurzgesagt, check it out
So good seeing it from the 3rd person view as well. Exactly how you described it
Instructions unclear, opened a wormhole to heaven and now a snake is telling me to close it
6:39 that's the best magical epic illusion I've seen in my life
Really tripped me out, that’s for sure!
6:23
Like it's coming out of a portal
Ya, its pretty cool
Legit looks like it went into the mirror and a different camera came out
02:39, just imagine how you feel, if you suddenly feel resistance... that would be weird.
And you switch places with the dude in the mirror
@@ejej_shej7958 bmo from adventure time be like:
@Steve Jarvis shush not douche.
@@dat1pengu1n football
Imagine this as a solitary confinement box. You would go crazy, acctually crazy.
Imagine if you make them by the one-way mirror technique, spheres that we can perceive from the outside and they're reflected just on the inside.
Would be wild.
Someone should make a lifesize version of this spherical mirror.
The center would need a soft swivel chair, make it a meditative deprivation chamber.
If sometging like that gets done, I would pay to enter!¡
Read “The hell of mirrors” by Edogawa Rampo... That's the reason I found this video.
@@albabelen5628 Don't say that, someone's going to charging you... like a battery!
And fill it half way with very salty bioluminescence water.
6:26 How to open a portal into the realms beyond human-comprehension.
Black hole horizon
@@tejasharitsavk4123 i wonder if this simulates black holes' light wrapling effect
@Angel Dust explain
@@diollinebranderson6553 it's not quite the same. This is a light inside the mirror that's reflecting towards the outer edges, where as black holes are just taking light that's near it and warping it (refraction). Yes, it *kind of* looks like a black hole here, but it's not the same principle at all.
Tl;dr Reflection ≠ refraction.
@@tejasharitsavk4123 better than HZD pc port
This episode gave me a headache, but it was so worth it! That third person view frin behind was amazing!
Now I understand how you could see the back of your head when entering the event horizon of a black hole. Thanks, it was driving crazy.
6:26 when he reproduced the *Big Bang* inside a Hemispherical Mirror
@tyler perin bruh he is a he. do u not know what the different genders look/sound like?
@tyler perin Huh?? I'm very confused, you can clearly see and hear that he's a man, how could you not be able to identify his gender, or are we all misunderstanding each other other?
Looks like a portal lol
@tyler perin are you talking about me or the owner of the Action Lab channel??
XD
@tyler perin ah thanks budd, but you too are smart ^^
6:30 that looks gorgeous
Yes
A bit futuristic too
@@HOAXYT01 yeah
Looks like a black hoke
@Himika Das it looks awesome 👍
Steel Drums in the background music is the most brilliantly fitting choice!
Now I have 360 view of your room using mirrorball technique
You should make a human size mirror sphere and get in it to see what it’s like and how disoriented it feels
I would get a giant spherical mirror fill it with water get a 360 camera in there maybe a person and put it as a tourist attraction AND BOOOM BIG BRAIN AND THE MONEY COMIN IN.
@@Homiebear1 If you put a person inside a spherical mirror filled with water, they would drown and you would go to jail.
@@CaritasGothKaraoke Well there's always a basement :0
@@Homiebear1 he's too dangerous to be kept alive
@@Homiebear1 and there is always fists, guns ❌
6:27 - it's the coolest eye candy I have ever watched on TH-cam, like a mystic portal opening.
this is the epitome of trying to see what it looks like inside the fridge after it’s closed
A human size spherical mirror would be awesome in a theme park mirror maze.
That's actually kinda interstellar
yeah and I was thinking it felt like I was having PTSD of a alien abduction for some reason.
@@Trip_Ts sameXD
I thought the only lacking was a flux capacitor.
"It comes toward itself and then starts to move away before it touches itself again."
Like, any further and its going to go into its own future.
first contact
a ball mirror and a blackhole are indeed similar because both bend light backwards multiple times in a sphere
6:27 is unbelievably cool! Looks like a black hole is expanding and will consume the whole mirror!
I'm calling it. Black holes are just 4d mirrors that teleport things all jumbled up on the other side.
@@mitchellbarton7915 time travelers from year 3000 after seeing this comment : "how tf did this dude just guessed how Black Holes work correctly??"
@@VegaFic a lot of pot and a crazy imagination, to satisfy their curiosity. OxO
That's the first thing I thought of also...this is essentially a mini micro black hole with the accretion disk around it!
This has been a burning question of mine for years… thank you!!!
Tried with a Suzanne head in Blender, I think the facing-side-mirror reflects an upside down version of the front face, and the back-side-mirror reflected an upside down version of the back of the head. Normally the head in the middle would block the reflections between the two mirrors, but if we just disable that in Blender, the back-side-upisde-down reflection gets flipped back to normal in the front-side-mirror, and vise-versa, ending with bunch of reflections stacking on top of each other, some normal sides, some upside down.
So abstract.
5:54 did anyone else felt like we were moving away from the mirror when it was actually moving away from us.
Yes
no
Maybe so
Perhaps
What's the difference
3:35 When you realize the other finger crosses the surface before yours
What?
O shit
3:39 finger soup
Because there was water in the bowl thing, it only looked like that because of the camera angle.
They almost docked. 😬😶
Watched this vid after a joint!🤣🤣 Very spacey!😆🤣 Pretty cool with the spherical mirrors!👍👍
Now I want to see a hollow sphere that’s a one way mirror, with the outside see-through and the inside mirrored.
Dislikes are from plane mirrors
Guys plane means flat surface and not a flying object
Dislikes
4d worlds..
No, convex mirror
Plane?
@@Rastrprahari probably parabolic too
@@Hellothere-vr9um Nah, plane is correct. It refers to the geometric concept of plane. I was stupid and completely forgot about that definition, though, in my defense, I've only heard and seen actual planes for weeks, so my mind defaulted to that definition. 😅
Me after 5 minutes of video: YES HE'S FINALLY GONNA DO IT YES!
Ad: *bonjour*
Me: adios
Me too
When I'm watching on mobile I swipe the slider all the way to the right, then tap on the rewatch button. This eliminates all mid-roll ads.
@@AGrayPhantom Shh, don't tell TH-cam that, they'll patch it out.
Download Vanced for Android.
The CGI in this video is truly amazing
Excellent video! I always wanted to try unusual things like this.
Furthermore, I'm oddly reminded of some of the really trippy visuals used in 2001: A Space Odyssey. I'm not sure why?
2:31 you can't really see this on camera
Me: I CAN THO
YEAH LOL.
It was confusing though.
Trippy af
In real life is much more trippy. If you go to a glass store, they have concave mirrors for you to see your face bigger and these mirrors have the same effect. It's really weird to look at, almost like your brain can't process the image properly
Same
Watching this on shrooms was probably the best experience of my life
lucky xD
Have you tried it on DMT?
Brooooo it’s like sweerly broooo
Don’t do drugs. Please
@@autoturret539 the yalready did it
I am so glad this video was recommended to me after I watched Vsauce's 10 year old video of how it would look inside
Well, now I want my bathroom sink to be a hemispherical mirror.
6:40 it totally looks like you went through the mirror :O
6:40 wow congratulations you just opend up a portral to another realm⤴
It's the Focus of the hemispherical mirror.
The patch of light on camera is the focussed light of the camera itself.
2:24 Everybody gangsta until it gravs you and takes you to the mirror world
Mirror dimension on doctor strange
@@kokonut8273 Mirror world from Alice in Wonderland
As a little child i used to worry wondering if i had swiched dimentions several times thrugh my bathroom mirror and my family was not my real family. It would seem to explain so much
@@starlegends3092 indras net of jewels
360 camera floating inside the center of the sphere somehow would be awesome
I do not know why but when you closed the sphere it feels like reality was shattering and my head started to spin and hurt for a bit
When u close ur eyes and press them too hard:
5:04
Absolutely true! Best description of it.
I like this effect
Im making it everyday
I get this literally everytime I stand up lol
I touched the time stamp and got an ad lol
Nice one 👌😁
444 is my luck number lol I just finished a stack of school work too
that was simple but kinda awesome. I watch the channel all the time. I assumed i was subscribed. Was so interesting & just cool that I checked and i wasn’t. I am now.
That upside down clay is a cool way to show people how the eye works too. Considering we flip the image.
I’M NOT JOKING, I’VE BEEN WAITING YEARS FOR THIS!!!
I couldn’t stop thinking about this experiment’s relation to visual aspects of a black hole.
wondering about that too mate
Same here
in a black hole the effects might be similar but the light is exchanged with gravity so the camera will be crushed,expanded and crushed again ;D
same
G
Dude that looks out of this world!!!
We need the bigger version of this
Does anyone else kinda want to go into one of these but feels like they would get insanely claustrophobic or simply go insane?
¿Por qué no los dos?
Unless you were blind. If you got overwhelmed you could close your eyes.
You would certainly feel your body heat being thrown back at you from all directions
Yes but i doubt id go insane
@@starlegends3092 you would if someone locked you in for sure
The problem with this is that the reflection we get is always dependent on the point of view, maybe putting a 360° VR camera in the middle inside a one way mirrored sphere...
Nested spherical cameras, like a dream within a dream.
Do it. Break the simulation. Set us free.
@@WizzleTeats69 We'd be free, at last... 👀
@@WizzleTeats69 они не настолько тупы чтобы пускать меня
Yes! Can we have a redo later with this and in a human size sphere? 🙏🏽
Holy shit that half sphere mirror looks like a ball coming out of another dimension.
It is such a great feeling of doing things right when one of my favorite youtubers mentions one of my other favorite youtubers ❤
You might open up a wormhole doing that.
And you never know what will jump through it.
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@@iShowGaming02 dude thats such a boring reply to my reply ...Why do you even want to embarrass yourself on a public forum like this? 🤦♂️
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2:29 What do you mean, you couldn't quite capture this on camera?
This ls literally Amazing!
Fascinating. I would have never even thought about this
When all else is removed, you're left with Schroedingers Cat.
This is what you see when you pass the event horizon.
You see yourself...
Yes .. the inner "Stargate" .. very small .. inside our water .. and the port is thus the Hydrogen .. the Prime Origin
I mean yea, but it's not just light but space and time too
No you go to the singularity
@@kade2078 not immediately
James: "You can't quite capture this on camera..."
Meanwhile my gut: HE'S TOUCHING IT, HE'S TOUCHING THE REFLECTION! DO YOU FEEL IT?? FEEL IT??? OHHHH YEAAAHH HE TOUCHED IT
thats what she said just cut out the "hes touching the reflection" part
@@user-pb3jj5vw6e
sigh... *unzips*
@@Oscar4u69 e-- excuse me, this is a wendy's
@@xLextonx oh, so her names wendy's nice. i heard some people talking about it but uh never had food there
At tarun 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🎖
it is like warping the space itself like a wormhole in interstellar, that was so cool!!
When it has the first person veiw and the light of the camera shines on his chest making his reflection look like Ironman
Do this again, but use a less intense light (a diffuser even) and do it in a completely dark room. I think the effect will be more pronounced if the light is less blinding and there is no outside light interference.
6:28 that looks like black hole emerging from hemisphere.
69 likes should I break it
If You think about it, ir reflects the light the same way as a black hole
Oh my god I’ve been wondering this for a decade thank you so much
I'm glad you talked so much about the MIR, underrepresented space station.
"every dream has a meaning"
my dreams:
You want go into you and come out but touching you again
XD
* Achievement *
New environment Unlocked!: 4d
my logic: Having a 4d field of view allows you to see all directions, looking only at 1, you inside a spherical mirror will make it possible for you to see all directions looking at a single point. Is that the key to see God?
edit: whoa thx for the likes :>
:>
@@prngs1236 no....
there's no god.
@@nurphurecarniumwe get it my guy your an atheist we really dont care
@@perfectionist. 😧😲😱
This is actually insanely surreal
i’m high asf this was amazing thank you for blowing my brains apart
At 4:39 you can see the camera's sensor will be pretty far from the sphere's center once you close the sphere, but i think it would be even cooler if the camera's sensor was near the center because when you close the sphere it wouldnt touch the other half and you would have a "wider" field of view.
Yes - we need a 360 camera in there...
Ah. Yes. I'm watching this at 2am and can't wait to see my strange lucid dreams
6:34 is like an art installation, but actually something worth looking at and learning ab.
I remember some early 3D arcade games using this same principle .
What if you to 2 domes, one side full mirror, and the other two-way mirrored.
This was one of my first thoughts too! But this could go on for all sorts of cool experiments.
thats actually a really good point
Good idea
Yeah yeah I wanna see
How about the half-spherical mirror and a flat mirror, too. The results should be different, but *how* different?
So many sci fi movie effects were demystified by this video.
I was looking for this comment
I wasn't looking for this comment too
Ikr?!
“discovering a new fear with the life-sized spherical mirror”
I would suggest, you bore a hole in the center of one hemisphere and put the camera there.
And also make the light more ajustable - brighter and dimmer as required.