Birthday!

This past week was my mother's birthday. Therefore on the night of her birthday, my father purchased a strawberry cake for her. As we were getting ready to sing "Happy Birthday" to her and light the candles, I remembered the lesson about unpolarized and polarized light. We learned in physics that the light exhibited from the candles was unpolarized light because the electrons in the light vibrate across different and random planes. Polarized light would have the electrons reverberating through a sequential and organized pattern. Even though the human eye cannot distinguish between polarized and unpolarized light, we know this fact to be true. The candles which my mother quickly blew out were emanating unpolarized light.