The "Mountain Or Valley?" Illusion


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This video is about a multistable perceptual illusion, similar to the hollow face illusion, whereby maps or aerial or satellite photos look upside down/inside out, ie, concave (valley) parts look convex and convex (mountainous) parts look concave. Just flip the images around and things will make a lot more sense! Its just because our eyes gauge depth based on the location of shadows, and the sun always casts shadows on the bottoms of things.

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REFERENCES
Twitter posts:
twitter.com/Astro2fish/status/859799730565414912
twitter.com/BadAstronomer/status/859800278358528001

Bad Astronomy Blog post: blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/05/19/a-lunar-illusion-youll-flip-over/

Multistable perception en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multistable_perception

Top-left Lighting en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-left_lighting

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What if the Earth were Hollow?


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What if there were a tunnel through the middle of the earth and you jumped in?

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What Causes Day Length to Change from Summer to Winter?


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Why Do Mirrors Flip Left


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Это видео о том, почему слова переворачиваются в зеркале влево и вправо (горизонтально), но не вверх и вниз (вертикально). Ответ связан с зеркальным отражением, как будто зеркала это окна в другой мир (как альтернативные вселенные, вывернутые наизнанку!), и непрозрачностью того, на чем мы пишем.

ССЫЛКИ
Зеркальное отражение
ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Отражение_(геометрия)

Видео PhysicsGirl про зеркала
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBpxhfBlVLU

Принцип Ферма
electron6.phys.utk.edu/optics421/modules/m1/Fermats principle.htm

Объяснение Томаса–Ферми
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas–Fermi_screening

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The Physics of Car Crashes


How is the chemical energy of gasoline transformed into kinetic energy of a moving car? And where does that kinetic energy go when the car crashes into something and stops moving?

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What is Sea Level?


FREE FACT: An oblate spheroid is a special case of an ellipsoid where two of the semi-principal axes are the same size.

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Why There Is Light on Earth But Not in Space


If you’re not a morning person, then you’d probably love living on the moon or out in space! The whole “lack of oxygen” thing aside, a ‘round-the-clock night sky sounds pretty tempting! But why is there so much light on Earth, but almost none once you leave our planet?

You might think that it’s light during the day and dark at night because the Earth spins on its axis, and the Sun illuminates either hemisphere. That’s part of the reason, but it’s more complicated than that. Our star shines on the Moon too, but the sky above it is always black!

Other videos you might like:
20 Incredible Space Facts That Arent In Textbooks www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfwAKqNM7U0