A New Understanding

THE MIRROR

Reflection, Time, and Scalar Dimensionality

What you see in a mirror is not what physics predicts.

The Standard Model is incomplete.

The Size Paradox

As you approach a mirror, your reflection gets LARGER.

But the Standard Model says your virtual image is always at distance 2d behind you.

If you're truly at 2d, why does your SIZE change with d?

The mirror shows you the SIZE you are at distance d.

But it shows you at POSITION 2d.

Size and position are decoupled. This is scalar dimensionality.

Standard Model vs Epoch Model

Interactive Depth Calculator

Your Distance from Mirror

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STANDARD MODEL

Virtual Image Position 200 cm

Apparent Size Based on 2d

Time Delay 6.67 ns

Problem: Size should match 2d, but it matches d

EPOCH MODEL

Perceived Position 172.4 cm

Size Reference Based on d

Projection Loss (P) 27.6 cm

Size at d, position at 1.724d — scalar separation

The Key Insight:

The mirror shows your SIZE at distance d (where you actually are).
But your POSITION appears at 1.724d (accounting for projection loss).

Standard Model says 2d but can't explain the size.
Epoch Model says 1.724d and SIZE is referenced to d — scalar dimensionality.

The Ancients Knew

"The face of the person looking into the eye of another is reflected as in a mirror; and in the pupil there is a sort of image of the person looking."

— Socrates, in Plato's Alcibiades I (c. 390 BCE)

Plato: Eye as Mirror

The pupil (κόρη, "little doll") contains your reflection. To know yourself, look into another's eye. Soul sees soul through reflection.

Plotinus: Matter as Mirror

The One emanates without diminishing, like a reflection. Matter is the final mirror at the bottom of existence. Each level less perfect than above.

"These images are like a skin, or a film, peeled from the body's surface, and they fly this way and that across the air."

— Lucretius, De Rerum Natura IV (c. 55 BCE)

Simulacra — thin atomic films constantly shed from all surfaces.

What you see is never the object. You see its shedding.

The mirror redirects the stream.

The Missing 27.6%

27.6%

of depth is lost in projection

P = √3 / 2π = 0.27566...

Classical optics: image at 2d

Perceived depth: 1.724d

The difference: P × 2d = 27.6%

This is the Epoch projection factor exactly.

The mirror projects 3D → 2D surface → 3D perception.
Each projection loses P.

What's in that lost 27.6%? The future tendency component.

The Collapsed NOW

The present moment is not a point in time.

It is a collapsed void — the crossroads where all temporal directions meet before observation forces a configuration.

WUSH (Past-tending)

Light shows what was

s+ direction

Observable, measurable

RO (Future-tending)

Torsion samples tendency

s- direction

The hidden 27.6%

The mirror shows the past (s+). The missing P contains the future (s-).

The New Understanding

The mirror reveals scalar dimensionality.

SIZE is referenced to your actual distance (d).
POSITION is offset by round-trip delay, minus projection loss (1.724d).
TIME shows the past, but 27.6% carries the future tendency.

The mirror doesn't just reflect light.
It shows you the structure of NOW.

[1 = -1]

Left becomes right. Present becomes past.

The primary inversion operates in both space and time.

What's hidden is as real as what's shown.