On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 01:34:16AM -0400, David Hobby wrote: > And I guess there might be a mechanism that produces more of one > orientation of circularly polarized photons. (Got me what it would > be, though!)
Spiral galaxies have a handedness. I wonder if something something spinning (a dust cloud? the original source of the dust cloud's angular momentum?) like a spiral galaxy could account for it. > <rant> I hate these popular articles where they omit crucial details > so as not to overtax their readers. I'm sure it is possible to write > an article where everybody can read it to get the maximum possible > understanding--even footnotes would be acceptable! <end rant> I'm not certain they omitted it. I got the feeling the author(s) didn't understand the difference between right and left circular polarization. It's not something that most people know. Granted, given that the article is about left & right handedness, it is really sloppy that they didn't get it right, and it annoys me as well. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/
