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Beatrice's practical demonstration that greater distance does not by itself produce dimmer reflected brightness.
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mirror experiment
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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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Beatrice's three-mirrors experiment supplies the key for interpreting the vision: the candle reflected in three mirrors also reflects the human holder, producing an image of the Godhead that includes the human within it.
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"Taking three mirrors, place a pair of them at equal distance from you. Set the third midway between those two, but farther back. Then,..."
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"Okay. So do you guys understand the experiment? Okay? What I'm doing is I am putting mirrors in front of me. Okay? Maybe 10..."
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"...God. All right? Because Beatrice was telling us to do the experiment."
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"...So, what's happening is that Donny is reminding us of this experiment, and he's also reminding us that if you continue to extend this..."
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