Re: [ATM] ATM: Please answer simple question, each and every one of you, please-

[Mark Cowan <toolontop@yahoo.com>]

Ah, but the person in the mirror has their heart on their "right" side.

Consider yourself reversed front-for-back, that's what the mirror does.  Of
course if it happened to you your brain would insist that the dominant hand had
not switched sides.

Curiouser and curiouser. ;)

Best,
Mark

--- Nils Olof Carlin <nilsolof.carlin@telia.com> wrote:

> Waldo,
> 
> you wrote:
> 
> 
> "are you sure about that, nils? looking in a mirror, the "person" 
> there is an 
> exact opposite than myself... "he" wears his watch on his left arm 
> whereas mine 
> is on my right... when i raise my right arm, "he" raises his left... 
> how do i 
> know?"  
> 
> One way of making sure is to say something like "Hey you there! 
> (pointing at your mirror image with your right arm) Raise your right 
> arm and point at me!" If your mirror image raises one arm to point back 
> at you, you know it is his right arm - unless of course he is cheating 
> (always a possibility)
> 
> Mark C wrote: 
> 
> "N.O. is just having you on. ;)
> 
> The mirror reverses front to back."
> 
> The latter is what I thought first, but noting that both I and my 
> mirror image face the same direction, namely in the direction of the 
> mirror frame, I had to reject the idea.
> 
> The former, however, is not necessarily incorrect.
> 
> Nils Olof
> 
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