Classical Fun with Polarisation
Look what Dad brought back from his trip to Germany!
Apollo Optik. An expensive, and an unknown brand to me. But to my delight, I discovered that they were polarized!!
For the uninitiated, light is a self-propagating electromagnetic field disturbance. I’m tempted to call it sourceless, but fact is, that all light is generated by charges in [...]
October 4, 2009
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Speaker of Aether
So I’m sitting at my computer, immersed in a literature survey for my term project, listening to TOOL at full volume, when all of a sudden I hear a loud “dit-dit-dit-dit-deeeeet–ditditdit-dit—–dit——dit——dit”. Took me about three seconds to realize it’s coming from my speakers. So then I went, “ET!!! WOOHOOO- I KNEW IT!!!”
But, as some wise [...]