polarization
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Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Gov. Gavin Newsom marked 20 years of California’s landmark climate law, celebrating a rare show of bipartisan unity amid deepening political polarization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
The event as well as a luncheon the prior day in Santa Monica were rare displays of bipartisan unity at a time of heightened political polarization in the United States.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026
The researchers found that structured light possesses its own topological characteristics, encoded in the arrangement of its polarization.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
The researchers also found that the diffraction pattern changed depending on both the direction and polarization of the incoming light.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
Given Walt’s need to exert control and Chris’s extravagantly independent nature, polarization was inevitable.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
"Spatially variable birefringence, that is, the difference in the propagation of different polarizations of light, acts like a synthetic magnetic field," explains Dr. Piotr Kapuściński of the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026
Two photons can be entangled so that each is in an uncertain both-ways state, but their polarizations are correlated so that if one is horizontal the other must be vertical and vice versa.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 20, 2022
“It may create a divide between the transitional government and the public. We are looking for a decent discussion based on the interests of Sudan without any polarizations or accusations.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2020
Before being measured, the photons’ polarizations are in a superposition of being both horizontal and vertical.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 17, 2020
The arrangement of the rooms in which polarizations are performed has an important bearing upon the accuracy of the results obtained.
From Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891 by Various
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President Obama's Farewell Address
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