[Wien] Very elemental questions...

[Chandrika]

The reflection of my nose and the middle of my body is at at the central 
plane (of symmetry) and is not displaced right or left in the mirror. So 
there cannot be an inversion. Lateral inversion
is only to the left and right of the normal. I can look upside-down only if
I am in front of a convex or concave mirror.
Am I right Gerhard?
Chandrika
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From: "Gerhard Fecher" <fecher at uni-mainz.de>
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Seems I have to make the question more complicated.

Do you have a mirror and a friend at hand ?
Ok then go put your friend between you and the mirror such that he or she
faces the mirror,
try to answer my question again.

You've got it ?


have fun
Gerhard



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Gesendet: Mittwoch, 5. März 2008 10:24
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Jiri Bursik a écrit :
> Dear Florent,
> the question was not that simple: Gerhard didn't propose having BOTH
> left<-->right exchanged AND up<-->down exchanged. You can really see
> EITHER left<-->right exchange OR up<-->down exchange in the mirror. It's
> the matter of taste. Man is mostly vertical standing in front of the
> mirror, that's probably why he/she tends to prefer automatically think
> about left<-->right exchange. (Or has it more to do with position of
> eyes? Or has it more to do with fixed floor and easier rotation than
> turning upside down?)
>

Hi,
seems to me that it is a matter of definition. You say that your
right/left hand are exchange because when you look at the image in th
mirror the left hand is situated on the left of your virtual body. This
hand being on the your right hand side in the real you...
Now , for your head: if you define your head as the thing on the left
hand side of your heart (when you look at your heart sitting on the
middle of your chest). Then, in the mirror, your head is at your feet.
Thank God for that...

Philippe

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