Do we see infinity when two mirror in parallel are kept?

Question

Detailed explanation is encouraged.

Answer 1

Only if the mirrors are perfectly flat, perfectly aligned, have perfect 100% reflection and are in a perfect vacuum. No mirror in the world has anywhere near this degree of accuracy, and even if one did it would lose it once you got down to the atomic level.

And even if you did manage to create this fictitious situation you wouldn't be able to get light bouncing between them in the first place. You can't shoot light into the mirrors because it won't enter head-on and therefore won't start bouncing head-on. You could use a laser to excite gas to emit photons, but quantum theory predicts that you could never get the light to travel in a perfectly straight line, and the gas would eventually scatter the light anyway unless you could somehow remove it in time. Heck, even relatively means that the influence of gravity from the devices (not to mention the earth itself) would warp space and prevent light traveling in a perfectly straight.

And then you have the problem of the fact that the equipment would have to be at a temperature of absolute 0, otherwise their own vibrations would affect the path of the light. There are all sorts of reason why this could never work.

Answer 2

no.

infinity is: "(∞) quantity whose value is unbounded"

if you are looking at a field that stretches to infinity, can you really see the infinite stretching field? no. through optics you see all the nearest atoms that form a picture in your brain.

Answer 3

Yes theoretically but

1) strict parallelism is difficult to maintain

2) after each relection a fraction of light is lost since the mirror is not perfect, so the images become fainter and fainter

Answer 4

i think the eye observing it would be the problem.  the brain may only let the eye see what it needs. the brain rules