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light bouncing back so you can finally argue with yourself face to face
means The throwing back of light, heat, or sound from a surface, or — by extension — the act of thinking carefully and turning your own thoughts over in your mind.
from From Latin reflectere, "to bend back," built from re- ("back") and flectere ("to bend") — the same flexing root behind flexible and flex. It arrived in English through Old French in the late Middle Ages, first meaning light bending back off a surface, then bending inward to describe the mind doubling back on itself.
- speed
- light reflects without ever slowing down
- mirror lie
- mirrors flip left-right but never up-down
- total internal
- fiber optics trap light by reflecting it endlessly
- echo cousin
- sound reflects too, that's literally an echo
- retina trick
- you only see what bounces off, never things themselves
mirror lake — wyoming lake that perfectly reflects the teton mountain range, creating a duplicate image of peaks in still water
bonneville salt flats — utah's 30,000-acre flat white salt expanse that reflects sky so clearly it's used for speed records