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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There are tiny slits in them, all parallel, that block some light rays coming from certain directions. When the light is coming all from one direction, like with glare from the sun reflecting off of something, it will block some of it. That’s how they reduce glare. Only scattered light rays, which is most light, gets through. They are called polarized because the slits all go in the same direction, aiming toward “poles.”
They work like eskimo snow goggles that block the bright light reflecting off of snow–you see less light when it comes from a certain direction. They have thousands of tiny slits instead of one big one.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_goggles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_goggles)
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