Not far from where Edwin Land — the inventor of the Polaroid camera — made his pioneering discoveries
about polarized light, researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) are continuing to unlock the power of polarization.
Light from the stellar remnant, a neutron star located about 400 light - years away, is polarized, meaning that its electromagnetic waves are oriented preferentially in a particular direction like light that reflects off the surface of water (SN: 7/8/06, p.
Light from the stellar remnant, a neutron star located
about 400
light - years away, is polarized, meaning that its electromagnetic waves are oriented preferentially in a particular direction like light that reflects off the surface of water (SN: 7/8/06, p.
light - years away, is
polarized, meaning that its electromagnetic waves are oriented preferentially in a particular direction like
light that reflects off the surface of water (SN: 7/8/06, p.
light that reflects off the surface of water (SN: 7/8/06, p. 24).
Since astronomers don't know much
about how strongly galactic dust
polarizes light, researchers involved in the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization, or BICEP, experiment relied on whatever information they could get their hands on.
Eventually these things will merge in some fashion, but the initial experience of plane -
polarized -
light 3D (modern 3D) was all
about people going Ooooh and Ahhh at the tech, rather than being involved in the story.