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August 18th, 2005 | No Comments »I do not consider my ideas to be at all “a new scientific hypothesis” to explain the process of vision. Rather, it is a simple, unassailable observation that connects the specifics of light refraction within the eye with the historically observed, and heretofore unexplained, peculiar arrangement of cone and rod receptors on the retinal surface. The linkage that I invoke to arrive at this uses light “antenna” dimensionalities and simple geometry as the fundamental mechanism of light interaction with the retina. As to light refraction within the eye, I refer to what I believe has been mistakenly termed chromatic “aberration” and that computer modeling using measured refractive index values for the various elements of the eye shows that optical wavelengths are directed to the precise points on the retina that I predict, namely that the mid-band 550 nanometer wavelength is directed to retinal angles approximating 7-8 degrees (the angle that defines the edge of the fovea centalis, i.e., at the point on the retina where rod density is sufficient to completely surround each cone). As to the arrangement of cone and rod receptors, if the retina were the analogue of a “camera” (i.e., corresponding to the mistaken “upside down arrow” diagrams found in most text books on vision) some sort of uniform arrangement of cones and rods would be evident. But such is clearly - very clearly - not the case.
