I’ve had like 12 people explain this to me and have absolutely no idea what polarized glasses are or why they’re so special.
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Think of light as a wave, like sound waves or radio waves.
Those waves bounce off of surfaces and reflect at new angles. A good example is if you speak loudly in a bare room with lots of hard surfaces – you hear distorted echos of your own voice, those are sound waves reflecting back at different angles and timing.
Light does the same. Some surfaces reflect light back at different angles creating what we call glare.
Polarized sunglasses have a filter which stops that light which is reflected from different angles, so you don’t see the glare.
They’re the equivalent of taking that bare room and putting in a thick rug and various pieces of furniture so that when you speak those echos are now absorbed.
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