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In article <10910@sun13.scri.fsu.edu>, jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) writes...
> 
>The answer is identical to the answer you get for three Polaroid sheets 
>laid at 120-degree angles on top of an sheet that defines the original 
>polarization.  Surely you have seen (or done, find some friends with 
>Polaroid sunglasses) the experiment where you have crossed (90 degree) 
>polarizers and then insert one between them at 45 degrees and see it 
>go from black to (dim) light.  Same thing with electrons. 

This experiment had a very profound influence on me, when I first saw it
as an undergrad.  I'm not entirely sure why.  I understood, mathematically,
why it *should* work, but was still struck with wonder that it *really did*
work.  I guess that I am easily amused.

-Scott
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				and some mathematician were to tell me that it
				had been definitely settled, I think I would
				immediately drop dead again."      - Vandiver