The Mirror Protocol: Infinite Reflection and Temporal Distortion

Date: Autumn 2019 Subjects: 9 enrolled, 8 completed Setup: Mirrors at both ends, perfect alignment Duration: Terminated early

STUDY SUSPENDED — ETHICS BOARD

Mirrors were installed at both ends of the east wing corridor, creating a theoretically infinite reflection. Subjects were asked to walk the full length while the reflections were active, and to report any perceptual anomalies.

The experiment was suspended on day 9 of 21 after three separate ethics concerns were raised, two of which I am not permitted to describe in full in this document.

What I can describe: subjects consistently experienced significant time dilation. What felt to subjects like 10-20 minutes was, in every case, between 2 and 6 hours. One subject was inside the corridor for 4 hours and 17 minutes and reported it as "about fifteen minutes."

Incident Log (partial)

Day 3 · Subject S-04 · 14:32–16:51

Subject walked corridor for 2h19m. Reported duration: "maybe twenty minutes." Could not be persuaded otherwise. No signs of distress. Cooperated fully. Simply wrong about the time.

Day 6 · Subject S-07 · 09:15–13:32

S-07 (same subject from EXP-001 who reported "no length in usual sense") walked corridor for 4h17m. Reported duration: 15 minutes. When informed of actual time, asked: "How long does the corridor think it was?" I did not know how to answer this. I wrote it down.

Day 9 · Subject S-02 · 11:00–17:43

S-02 refused to exit the corridor. Not aggressively — they simply said they weren't ready to leave yet and appeared calm and well. It took two researchers and a significant conversation to bring them out. When asked what they had been doing for 6h43m: "Listening." To what: "The corridor. It has a lot to say."

Study suspended following this incident.

"S-07 said she could 'hear the corridor thinking.' I told her this was impossible. I was wrong to say that. I don't know what the corridor is, but it is not a passive object. Something is happening in the reflections. The mirrors showed them something I couldn't see from outside. I need to go in myself. — J." Note (much later): I went in. S-07 was right. It does think. And it knew I was listening.

STUDY TERMINATED — DO NOT REPLICATE