ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Polarization identity

Okay kiddo, have you ever played with magnets and noticed how they have different sides? Like the north pole and the south pole? Well, polarization identity is kind of like that.

When we have a vector (which is just a fancy way of saying an arrow with a direction and length), we can think of it as having two sides that are like the north and south poles of a magnet. One side is called the "positive" side and the other is called the "negative" side.

Now, just like how magnets can attract or repel each other based on their polarity, vectors can also do that based on their polarity. But to make things easier to understand, we use something called the dot product to measure this attraction or repulsion.

The dot product is a way of multiplying vectors together, kind of like how you multiply numbers. And when we do this, we get a number that tells us how much the two vectors are attracted or repelled by each other based on their polarity.

So, to recap: polarization identity is all about the positive and negative sides of vectors and how they can attract or repel each other based on their polarity. And we use something called the dot product to measure this attraction or repulsion. Cool, huh?