Spoon through Polarization (VIDEO)

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

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Polarization, the direction in which light vibrates, is invisible to the human eye but provides a lot of information about the objects with which it interacts. For example, polarized light highlights the defects in this plastic spoon.

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