There's a nice article over at Scientific American about Twisted light. Basically, we know about color, and polarization of light. These have been in college and highschool physics experiments for ages. But now we should also start learning about Twisting of light. About a decade ago, it was discovered that passing light through a diffraction gratting could impart an angular momentum factor on the light wave, creating a helix of twisted light. This can be demonstrated in a classroom level. Go on over to Scientific American and search for "A twisted study" for more details. I'm too lazy to find the article again and post the exact link here.

Oh, and I *tried* to submit this to /., but it, like everything else, was rejected.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/02/0216215&mode=nested&tid=103&tid=163
I'm now keeping track. THis is 1.

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It's good to be posting again. Also, playing loki demos. It's a shame they chaptered out with a call of 7. :(

-=fshalor

Yep. I'm a dumbass... I didn't take the time to hceck if a story had already been posted.

Ah well.

We need to split /. into two: those who care and those who can't care.