From: Mark Grant (mark@unicorn.com)
Date: Tue Apr 29 1997 - 16:15:40 MDT
On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, John K Clark wrote:
> But the probability of the photon making it through a second polarizer set
> the same way as the first is 100%, the probability of it making it through a
> second polarizer set 90 degrees from the first is 0%.
*Unless* you put another polarizer at 45 degrees in between the two, in
which case the photon has a 25% chance of passing through all three, even
though it can't pass through the two crossed polarizers. Polarization is
even weirder than it first appears.
Mark
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