How does a magnifying glass make things bigger?
The Great Light Lie
How does a magnifying glass make things bigger?
You hold a magnifying glass over an ant, and suddenly the ant looks huge — legs like toothpicks, antennae waving like tiny flags. But the ant didn't grow. You didn't shrink. So what just happened?
Here's the trick: light bounces off everything around you in straight lines, shooting out in all directions. When light bounces off that ant, some of it heads straight toward your eye. Your eye catches those light rays and turns them into the tiny ant-picture you see.
