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Touch the Spring

Touch the Spring
It's all done with mirrors.

Touching the spring seems easy, but the image of a spring is made by a big curved concave mirror. Light from a real spring bounces off the mirror to form the image you see. If you shine a flashlight at the image of the spring, the light reflects from the mirror and lights up the real spring. Because the real spring is lit up, it’s reflected image is lit up, too.