> > > I'm probably not the first person to think about this, but if you stand in front of a mirror in a well-lit room and close your eyes, do you still have a reflection?
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Yes. Newtonian (i.e. macroscopic) laws of physics function perfectly regardless of whether there is a separate observer or not. The world of Quantum MAY be a different story -- but you already knew that. :-)


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> > If you stand in front of a mirror with a vampire standing between you and the mirror, would you still have a reflection?
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> > Brunnen-"if you try this at home, don't close your eyes"G
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No, I guess *you* yourself wouldn't have a reflection when you're looking at the mirror behind and past the vampire. My reasoning is that if the vampire is physical -- he's not a hallucination, and you can see him -- and flesh himself (which stands to reason if he needs physical BLOOD to survive), then he must be doing something to the laws of optics to prevent incident light from forming his image in the mirror. Thus if he's hindering incident light from reaching the mirror target, he'd be intercepting any incident rays bouncing off of *you*, too. Technically you'd be invisible to the mirror when the vampire's around.


> How interesting! Hmm. I guess that the vampire not having a reflection would stem from light passing through the vampire-- but if that were true, you couldn't see the vampire. Hmm. I suppose it's just magic.
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> Worm"wonders if the vampire stood between two mirrors, could he see forever?"wood

He'd see two facing mirrors with a big fuzzy aluminum-coloured blank spot where his image should be :-)

Wolfspirit