A chick hatching from an egg. The chicken or the egg causality dilemma is commonly stated as which came first: the chicken or the egg?. The dilemma stems from the observation that all chickens hatch from eggs and all chicken eggs are laid by chickens.
Unpolarized light can also become polarized when it is scattered in air (also known as Rayleigh scattering). This occurs due to the fact that the EM waves cause the electron in air to vibrate, producing radiation and causing polarization of the light.
A collision occurs when two or more objects hit each other. When objects collide, each object feels a force for a short amount of time. This force imparts an impulse, or changes the momentum of each of the colliding objects. But if the system of particles is isolated, we know that momentum is conserved. Therefore, while the momentum of each individual particle involved in the collision changes, the total momentum of the system remains constant.