EY: v6

ELECTRICAL VITREOUS:  Behind the lens is a second bigger pool of liquid called the vitreous humor.  This pool is much smaller than the aqueous humor, however, it is the biggest strength of the eye for keeping its plump shape.  

ELECTRICAL VITREOUS: Vitreous Humor is thinner than the aqueous humor and has strange bio-cables running running through it.

ELECTRICAL VITREOUS: Something weird about the collagen ropes in the vitreous humor is that they are electrically charged.  

ELECTRICAL VITREOUS:  Why do you need electrically charged protein ropes in your eyeballs? It’s because the added electrical charge is necessary to get the rod and cone messages to the brain.

ELECTRICAL VITREOUS: If your collagen ropes in your vitreous humor in your eyeball ever stuck together any time in your lifetime, you’d begin to go blind.  This is because light can’t pass through clumps of collagen.

ELECTRICAL VITREOUS: Collagen is so thin that if it is kept apart and not allowed to clump, light can pass through it.  And this is what the electrical charges do.  The collagen ropes repel each other like the same poles of a magnet do.  This keeps them the right distance apart!

Electric eyes.  Weird?  You bet.  But without them, we’d all be blind as a bat!

OPSIN PROTEINS:  At the far side of the vitreous humor is the retina, what many scientists call the most complex piece of matter in the universe.  And it’s all packed into an area the size of a large bandaid!

OPSIN PROTEINS:  Our eyes detect the different energies of individual light beams through AMAZING proteins called opsins.  We have 5 types in our eyes.  Rhodopsin is 1000 times more sensitive than other opsins to light.  It’s found in truckloads in our 100 million rod cells and it helps us see in dim light like on a moonlit night. 

OPSIN PROTEINS:   We have different opsins for detecting the energies of red, green and blue light (RGB).  Weirdly enough, we also have another opsin, melan-opsin , which is in the ganglion cells on the tip-top of the rods and cones.  It detects light and its cells are wired to the brain where the brain uses its info to adjusts the bio-clocks in all the cells of our bodies! Crazy!

OPSIN PROTEINS:   Bugs like the giraffe weevil and other insects have yet another type of opsin in their unibody eyes’ rhabdomeres called rhabdomeric opsins.