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| [[Special:Contributions/71.167.97.24|71.167.97.24]] 15:51, 26 October 2012 (UTC) | | [[Special:Contributions/71.167.97.24|71.167.97.24]] 15:51, 26 October 2012 (UTC) |
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− | I thought the image text refers to space contraction when travelling at speeds close to the speed of light... Since the car moves, the driver sees the "rest of the universe", aka ouside, (barely) smaller than it really is. {{unsigned|178.192.228.170}}
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− | kinda strange warning, considering that the only objects behind you that you care about are usually those faster than you. maybe the sticker should read "beware of objects that are redder than they appear"? still a good one unless you think too much about it. i'd put one on my mirror anytime! --[[Special:Contributions/83.64.13.238|83.64.13.238]] 09:21, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
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− | Objects in the mirror are [younger, lighter, prettier] than they appear. (Because of light travel time, relativistic mass dilation, distance). [[User:Danshoham|Mountain Hikes]] ([[User talk:Danshoham|talk]]) 08:54, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
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− | :Aren't the objects than odler than they appear instead of younger? You see a x [timeunits] old item in the mirror, while when you see it it is x+(distance/c) [timeunits] old. with distance and c being larger than 0, the item is actually older than what you see. --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 08:25, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
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− | Coming in very late, but physicist Randall is wrong. (At least, his mirror-engraver is wrong.) The objects in the mirror are not "bluer than they appear", because that statement implicitly privileges the ground's reference frame over the car's. The objects appear the way they appear, period. That's Einsteinian relativity's central lesson. If someone is on the same road, driving in the opposite direction, they see the objects as bluer than ''someone at rest with respect to the objects'', but neither of those reference frames is privileged over the mirror's.
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− | (Note: don't bring up accelerated reference frames, which don't apply here.) [[User:Nitpicking|Nitpicking]] ([[User talk:Nitpicking|talk]]) 02:12, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
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