HardScience
"I show you a version of yourself from a tiny fraction of a second in the past. The image you see is never truly you right now. What am I?"
Answer
A Mirror
Explanation
Light takes a tiny but real amount of time to travel from you to the mirror and back to your eyes. So the reflection you see is technically from the past — however infinitesimally small that gap is. A beautifully precise riddle.
This is a hard riddle in the Science category — Riddles about physics, space, biology and the laws of the universe.
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