I'm off to Williamstown this afternoon, to talk about research and alsoHow to Teach Physics to Your Dog. If you need blog-based entertainment, though, here are some shiny new radio buttons for you to click:
I won't offer a personality analysis based on these results, but after enough people vote, we will be able to determine the angle between this blog's readers and the horizontal. So that's something. Of course, it would require several more polls for full quantum state tomography...
(If you're new here, or ok with old radio buttons for your bloggy amusement, go vote in the Laser Smackdown poll.)
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Time to ask the regulars to push some buttons again. (You do realise that this is just an experiment in behavioristic psychology?)
I am told that all Macs come with a three button mouse. I'm not sure I believe that, but it is what I'm told. But to me the three button mouse on a Mac represents one of interesting cultural features of Mac users.
How did you decide to read this post?
My son Jim loved his bottle when he was a baby. By about 15 months of age, he loved baby formula so much that he was going through over a hundred dollars' worth a week -- more than the rest of the food budget for the entire family!
I voted horizontal, but I would have preferred a circular polarization option. I would be left handed circular polarized. Southpaw light!
What? I can't be right-hand circular, or in a superposition? No fair!
what about the readers that are horizontally polarized and coupled locally in an entagled state?
people who pick horizontally polarized are lazy. that is the only polarization they can do while taking a nap.
No vote on your poll, but I did buy your book, so you can take a vacation this year.
Polarizing cubes do a much better job with horizontal polarization. The vertical port is far more impure.
...not sayin' which one I picked.
I'm diffused and diffracted!
Interesting result, since homework problems always seem to have a bias toward preparing the beam with vertical polarization.
PS - Circular polarization makes for better 3-D movie viewing because you don't have to keep your head vertical all of the time.