Birefringence

mathstalk

Have any of you seen this video?

Refraction, eat your heart out!

Neodymium

I was just after watching it, I guess you're subscribed to sixtysymbols too

All the science videos from the University of Nottingham's youtube channels are superb. I've watched nearly all of the sixtysymbols/ periodicvideos/ numberphile/ deepsky videos.

mathstalk

Neodymium wrote: »

I was just after watching it, I guess you're subscribed to sixtysymbols too

All the science videos from the University of Nottingham's youtube channels are superb. I've watched nearly all of the sixtysymbols/ periodicvideos/ numberphile/ deepsky videos.

I am indeed! The videos are really great. I respect them a lot for making the subjects interesting through the way they present them. Other university videos are informative and sometimes interesting, but they lack the enthusiasm and effort that Nottingham Uni put into theirs.

FISMA

Although not birefringence, I have always appreciated the explanations I have heard in explaining the below observation;)

krd

FISMA wrote: »

Although not birefringence, I have always appreciated the explanations I have heard in explaining the below observation;)

Although not directly related to either birefringence, or that weird symmetry in the word dioxide.

Something I've been looking at

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/93/is-there-a-physical-reason-we-read-from-left-to-right

http://traevoli.com/boust/select_file.php

I've been looking at it, because I am dyslexic. Though as an adult, I have mostly overcome it, I still have problems. I have a pet theory, that if I learn to, and practice, reading upside down, and back to front, it may improve my general reading and maths. It's interesting to do. You get a reminder of how difficult it was to learn to read as a child - for me it was especially difficult.

opinion guy

Birefringence was always my favourite physical property