In a world where mirrors don't reflect visible light but instead reflect sound, Naledi and Jiro are standing in a large, spherical room whose walls are completely covered in these sound-reflecting mirrors. Naledi is blindfolded and standing at the exact center of the room, while Jiro, who is not blindfolded, stands silently at the edge of the room. If Naledi shouts loudly, what will she be able to deduce about Jiro's location based on the sound reflection?

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If the mirror walls reflect sound the same way traditional mirrors reflect light, then the sound waves from Naledi's shout would propagate outward in all directions. Since Naledi is at the center of the spherical room, the sound waves would hit the curved wall and reflect back toward the center. Normally, in a non-magical context, echoes in a spherical room would come back to the center point from all directions equally.

However, because Jiro is standing silently at the edge of the room, he would be obstructing the path of some of the sound waves. The sound waves hitting Jiro would be absorbed or scattered by his body, depending on what he's wearing and the properties of the material. This would create a 'shadow' region where the reflected sound would be much quieter or entirely absent.

By listening to the echoes, Naledi would hear a uniform echo from all directions except the direction where Jiro is standing. The absence or significant reduction of sound coming from one specific area would be a clue for Naledi. Using this information, she could deduce that Jiro is located in the direction of the 'quiet spot' in the otherwise uniform spherical echo pattern. Without being able to see, she would use her spatial hearing to roughly localize Jiro's position based on the disruption in the sound reflections.