What would you see inside a hollow ball with a mirror surface if you where on the inside?

Question

sorry its kind of hard to word it right.

would it reflect whats behind you....? but whats behind you is the other half of the sphere, so it would reflect whats in front of you.

its kind of like the game "bonkers"

or the chicken and the egg..

what would you see?

Answer 1

This is a fun question to answer - but, let's first decipher the actual question.  Okay - I'm inside a hollow ball.  Now, the mirror surface, is it mirrored on the outside, like a silver marble, or on the inside, where I'll just be seeing a neverending repetition of myself and all of the angles in which can be incorporated into the reflection?  I'd be very interested to actually know this answer.

Answer 2

Assuming you had a light, it would depend on exactly where you were inside the ball.  If you were not at the center of the sphere, you would see a highly distorted image of yourself.  If you were at the center, you would see a slightly distorted image of yourself wherever you looked.  The distortion would depend on the radius of the mirror.

You would not see multiple images of yourself because your image would be reflected back to the center of the sphere, where you were.  Looking forward, you would only see your front, because the image of your back would be hidden by your body, just as if you had a flat mirror in front of you and one behind.  You can't see the image in the rear mirror because you are blocking your own view.   Looking up you would see yourself looking down on yourself, and looking down you would see the bottoms of your feet.  If you turned your head around as far as you could, you would see yourself looking at your back.

Answer 3

Nothing as there would be no light.