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Classical Parallel Worlds And Local Non-Locality

... this discussion, but we know from simple optics involving polarization filters that it is sin 2 (δ). Surely, we would rather like to ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Nov 22 2013 - 1:01am - 0 attachments

Advanced Light

... as electron spin (whose value can be up or down) or photon polarization (say, horizontal or vertical). The essence of entanglement is this: while the polarization of each photon is indeterminate until a measurement is made, once ...

Article - News Staff - May 26 2014 - 10:37pm - 0 attachments

BICEP2, CMB B-modes And Spinorial Space-time

... BICEP2 Collaboration : BICEP2 I: Detection Of B-mode Polarization at Degree Angular Scales , arXiv:1403.3985 BICEP2 II: ... announced the possible finding of a B-mode polarization signature of the cosmic microwave background. This was immediately ...

Article - Luis Gonzalez-Mes... - May 12 2014 - 12:27pm - 0 attachments

Not Just The US: Why Most Countries Like Partisan Media

... There were then several measures designed to assess polarization. In the United States, for example, people were asked to rate how ... Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. In another measure of polarization, the Americans were asked how they would feel about having one of ...

Article - News Staff - May 8 2014 - 1:30am - 0 attachments

Gamma-Ray Burst Shockwave Findings Rule Out Afterglow Hypotheses

... the afterglow all predict different levels of linear polarization, but theories all agreed that there should be no circular polarization in visible light. This is where we come in: we decided to test ...

Article - News Staff - May 1 2014 - 10:28am - 0 attachments

A Crack In The Cosmic Egg - What Does The Cosmic Inflation Discovery Really Mean?

... generate a faint but distinctive twisting pattern in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background, known as a "curl" or B-mode ... For the density fluctuations that generate most of the polarization of the CMB, this part of the primordial pattern is exactly zero. ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2014 - 5:34pm - 0 attachments

Why Increasing Bandwidth Of Radio Transmissions Using Orbital Angular Momentum Is Innovative

... only one transmission channel per frequency (and polarization). In contrast, angular momentum, which represents the rotational ... transmission channels on one and the same frequency (and polarization). (Physics) ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 24 2014 - 4:20am - 0 attachments

Primordial Gravitational Waves: BICEP2 Announces First Direct Evidence Of Cosmic Inflation

... light, it exhibits all the properties of light, including polarization. On Earth, sunlight is scattered by the atmosphere and becomes ... generate a faint but distinctive twisting pattern in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background, known as a "curl" or B-mode ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2014 - 12:21pm - 0 attachments

One More Prize For Fabrizio Tamburini

Fabrizio Tamburini, the Italian researcher who has discovered an innovative way to multiply the transmission of electromagnetic signals by exploiting the vorticity of photons, has received last Saturday the "San Valentino prize" at Palazzo Gazzolli in Ter ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Mar 20 2014 - 3:35am - 0 attachments

Direct detection of CMB B-Mode Polarization by the BICEP2 team. Yay! Now what does any of that mean?

... direct detection of gravitational waves via the B-mode polarization of the CMB may have supported the simplest and most popular ... patronizing, explanation of all this.   The B-mode polarization of the CMB is what it is called but what does that mean and why is ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Mar 17 2014 - 6:11pm - 0 attachments