Vsauce: What Color Is A Mirror?
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Vsauce Michael talks about the optics of mirrors, the sky, and the iris of your eye.
Aug 4, 2012 10:03 AM
Re: Vsauce: What Color Is A Mirror?
Doesn't the word 'blanco' seems closer to 'blank' than to 'black?'
By: Wonderr
Re: Vsauce: What Color Is A Mirror?
The word 'blank' has the same root as 'black'.
Re: Vsauce: What Color Is A Mirror?
If you say that three times in a row in front of a mirror, you'll turn into Bugs Bunny or Bugs Bunny is coming to get ya carrot, not sure which.
Re: Vsauce: What Color Is A Mirror?
That root: "bhel-" : "to shine, flash, burn"
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/blank?s=t
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/black?s=t
We love pie here at M&C. In this case, the root in question is from PIE: the Proto-Indo-European language that was used around 3700 BC (+/- 1,000 years or so).
Read on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/blank?s=t
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/black?s=t
We love pie here at M&C. In this case, the root in question is from PIE: the Proto-Indo-European language that was used around 3700 BC (+/- 1,000 years or so).
Read on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language
