Place your thumb nail against the mirror, if there is a gap between the real one & the reflection, its a real mirror.
Not by a long shot, but nice try!
If you've decided to do anything particularly illegal or embarrassing in the presence of a mirror which passes the so-called Thumb Nail Test, you should consider for a moment that that Test proves absolutely nothing regarding the transparency of the mirror.
BTW, if you mean its a real mirror in the sense that it's not a hallucination, you could be correct, but that's as far as it goes.
If you put a kettle filled with water on a stove, you know that in x minutes it will boil. You don't need to know the exact position of every water molecule ( except of course, the position is somewhere inside the kettle ). Not necessarily; you may know when the temperature reaches 100C, but not when it will boil. Unless, of course, you know something I don't - which is likely!
Slashdot Mirror
Place your thumb nail against the mirror, if there is a gap between the real one & the reflection, its a real mirror.
Not by a long shot, but nice try!
If you've decided to do anything particularly illegal or embarrassing in the presence of a mirror which passes the so-called Thumb Nail Test, you should consider for a moment that that Test proves absolutely nothing regarding the transparency of the mirror.
BTW, if you mean its a real mirror in the sense that it's not a hallucination, you could be correct, but that's as far as it goes.
Being chaotic does not (in principal) deny the possibility of modelling. In fact we already have an operating implementation of the weather (look up).
... grab a screwdriver!
I did just that, but I don't see what 500 pencils has to do with the weather.
-- If it ain't broke
Okay, this may help in understanding what is meant by the Butterfly Effect [caltech].
...or "predicting" those backdoor keys they'll be selling on eBay before long.
If you put a kettle filled with water on a stove, you know that in x minutes it will boil. You don't need to know the exact position of every water molecule ( except of course, the position is somewhere inside the kettle ).
Not necessarily; you may know when the temperature reaches 100C, but not when it will boil.
Unless, of course, you know something I don't - which is likely!