Sentences with phrase «about polarized light»

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.

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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.
They found that the light from the neutron star is polarized to about 16.4 %, as they report today in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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.
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