EYE – Second Timers – v3

AQUEOUS HUMOR: Right behind the clear cornea of your eye that you can touch is the smaller, first chamber of liquid in the eye, the aqueous humor.  The liquid sits behind the cornea and on top of your colored iris.  The aqueous humor liquid is also behind the iris and is all throughout the cave-like hole in the center of the iris. The liquid also covers the front of the lens.  The aqueous humor has a pool in front of the iris and also one behind it.

AQUEOUS HUMOR: This aqueous humor fluid is much thicker than the fluid in the other larger pool of liquid in the back of your eyes,  the vitreous humor. 

AQUEOUS HUMOR: There is a wild, tiny patch of cells BEHIND the colored iris. The ciliary muscle–which is behind the iris– pulls on the strings (the zonules) which hold the lens. This lens-moving muscle has a patch of cells on its surface which makes the aqueous humor fluid continuously. 

AQUEOUS HUMOR: New aqueous humor with fresh supplies of oxygen and food is added constantly on the back side of the iris. These new supplies flow from the back side of the iris like a fast moving steam locomotive through the tunnel of the pupil to the front of the iris where it feeds the iris and the cornea.

R+C FEEDING: Rods and cones have a thousand floors in them called optic discs. They have opsin proteins woven into the floors like twisting snakes. These precisely engineered proteins react to exact ranges of energies of light. They are energy detectors!

R+C FEEDING: After the opsin proteins are “triggered” by light, they need to be reset for the next blast of light. The resetting takes place faster than a second.  If it didn’t take place this fast, every time you looked at something you’d have to wait before you could look at something else until your eyes reset. Driving or playing a sport would have to be done at super-sloth speed!

R+C FEEDING: The 110 million eye detecting cell’s 100 billion floors need more oxygen and energy than any other part of the body.   The rod and cone power supply is the blood-red choroid layer hiding behind them.  This is the densest axon network of the body.

R+C FEEDING: Red eye in a photograph is the intense light of a camera flash blowing through the cells in the retina and the RPE (retinal pigment epithelium). Once through that dense network of cells and nerves, the light reflects off the blood in the choroid layer and then the light shoots back out of the eye. When you see your red eye in a photo, you’re seeing the blood which feeds your intense retina!  Red eye is your BLOOD! The “pre flash” some cameras give off is to get your eye to close its pupil somewhat to reduce the red-eye effect.

R+C FEEDING: The floors of the rods and the cones are slowly destroyed by infrared light. 

 R+C FEEDING: To keep you from becoming blind, new floors are continually being added to the end of the rods and cones which face the light.  Every 4 hours a floor of each rod and cone is pinched off and dissolved by the back of your eye. In this way your eyes are continually being rebuilt! YOUR EYES ARE  EATING YOUR OWN EYEBALL PARTS.