SBell0105
Can you see yourself running without the use of a mirror?
If you define "mirror" as "reflective glass", then yeah, there are plenty of surfaces with varying amounts of reflectivity but that wouldn't fall into the category of "mirrors" - polished stone, or calm water. The problem becomes slightly more interesting if you define "mirror" to mean "any reflective surface" - but even then, the answer is trivially "yes" because at any given moment, you can direct your gaze so that you can see your arms, your legs, or even your nose. You may protest that you meant to ask if I could see "all of me" - but you can never really see all of someone at once unless you flay them apart or look at different ranges of x-rays and ultrasounds. Throwing away those answers and understanding what you REALLY meant to ask me, the problem boils down to, "Given that I am running, how may I see my own body as though from the eyes of a second observer?" Alas, there is still the trivial answer of satellite imagery. I think the sort of answer you'd like is for me to construct some sort of round-the-world radio telescope, mount it on a treadmill, and run with it in front of me, which would take an absurd amount of time, money and bribing world governments to look the other way; I'm not a telescope expert, so I don't know if you can do this with a curved tube, but I figure even if the image gets distorted, I'd technically be seeing myself. Oh, I have a better answer, though! Connect a wireless receiver to my skull and have a camera rigged up behind me to send signals directly to my visual cortex. It cuts out the cheap middle man of the video screen I'd need with the boring camcorder answer, and it's a sufficiently nerdy answer to satisfy the flavor of the question. We don't have ALL of that technology yet, but scientists have gotten blind patients to see flashes of colored light before, so I figure this will be possible within 5-15 years.
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