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Jiang says the earlier three-mirror candle experiment established that brightness remains equally bright regardless of distance even if apparent size changes.
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Brightness
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The mirror experiment is designed to show that a more distant reflected image may be smaller but does not become less bright simply because it is farther away.
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Jiang says the mirror experiment shows that even if one mirror is vastly farther away, its reflected image would still be equally bright, so depth alone cannot explain the moon's darker regions.
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The three-mirror experiment is presented as showing that a farther reflection may appear smaller but not dimmer, so distance or recessed depth alone does not explain the moon's darker patches.
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"...guys remember where Patrice is trying to prove to Dante that brightness is just as bright no matter the distance, right? And so they..."
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"...lesser size, there you will see that it must match the brightness of the rest."
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"...away. And I'm shining a light at both. Okay? Would the brightness differ between these two mirrors? Yes or no? No. It's the same..."
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"then European surely is confused okay so she's using the example the solar eclipse to show us that it's not it can't possibly be..."
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"...lesser size there you will see that it must match the brightness of the rest okay so what you're saying here is okay so..."
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"...may be larger okay a size might be different but the brightness is still the same okay if you were to do this you..."
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"...he drew closer and closer to us seemed to gain in brightness so that my eyes could not endure his nearness and I was..."
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"...is most like the face of Christ for only through its brightness can you prepare your vision."
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"...is most like the face of Christ for only through its brightness can you prepare your vision to see him right so how does"
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"...from sleep because the spirit of eyesight raises to meet the brightness that proceeds from layer to layer in the eye. And he who..."
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"...glass, so much darkness that none it left behind had greater brightness and that flame world three times brown Beatrice while singing so divine..."
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"...makes him unlike the highest good so that in him the brightness of its light is dimmed"
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