Mods, sorry this might seem very OT, but today I watched this really freaky and interesting documentary about the "Kozyrev Mirror," a time travel device that was theorized by the Russian astrophysicist Nikolai Kozyrev while in solitary confinement. Could this be Q's "Thing Mirror"?!? Link inside.
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THINK MIRROR
It takes no confidence to realize what is real. Too much wild speculation in modern physics.
This is from the 1930's.
To be fair, Kozyrev seems to be an interesting physicist who got caught in the political gears of the Stalinist regime. He had an unusual mirror that he experimented with, possibly giving him his idea about viewing time. It seems to have been more of a parapsychological approach. But it is a forlorn idea. There is only one actual time (the present). We can maybe capture some fading signals from the past (no longer existing), but there is nothing to come from the future (not yet existing). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Aleksandrovich_Kozyrev