Areas Where Work Needs To Be Done And Correlations Made To Validate This Concept
Tuesday, May 4th, 2004Many aspects of this concept can be tested experimentally. One that occurs to me… it is inherent in my proposal that the hexagonal symmetry of the long wavelength detection elements on the retina (cone/cone appositions) has meaning. This transforms into octagonal symmetry for midband green detecting elements (cone/rod appositions) and then back to a hexagonal form in the all-rod, blue sensitive peripheral retina. Therefore, although vision is generally insensitive to polarization (as this concept affirms), there should be a slight change as one progresses across the visible spectrum with green wavelengths being slightly less sensitive to light polarization than red or blue. Has response to polarized light been measured as a function of wavelength?
