Thank you to Brilliant for supporting PBS. To learn more, go to: https://brilliant.org/BeSmart/ We’re on PATREON! Join the community https://www.patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart ↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓ How many times do you look in a mirror every day? Have you ever stopped to wonder how they actually work? Mirrors do strange things to our world, seemingly flipping everything so that what was right is left and what was left is right. But what if I told you that mirrors don’t actually flip the world left to right? The real magic of mirrors is far stranger and more interesting, as you’re about to learn. Inspired by: Gardner, Martin - The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings Check out It's Lit: Unabridged, a new podcast from PBS: iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-lit-unabridged/id1603688708 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4XOCT3jhB12mYcbA15h7zx ----------- Special thanks to our Brain Trust Patrons: Mehdi Damou Barbora Bei Ken Board The Clinger-Hamilton Family Attila Pix Burt Humburg DeliciousKashmiri Brian Chang Roy Lasris dani bowman David Johnston Salih Arslan Baerbel Winkler Robert Young Amy Sowada Eric Meer Dustin Karen Haskell AlecZero Join us on Patreon! https://patreon.com/itsokaytobesmart Twitter http://www.twitter.com/DrJoeHanson http://www.twitter.com/okaytobesmart Instagram http://www.instagram.com/DrJoeHanson http://www.instagram.com/okaytobesmart Merch null Facebook https://www.facebook.com/itsokaytobesmartpbs/