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Mystery #1Tier 1-2physics / light

How do your eyes actually see?

Right now, light is bouncing off this page, racing into your eyes, and somehow turning into the words you are reading. Your eye is smaller than a ping-pong ball, so how does a whole, sharp picture of the world get squeezed inside it?

A close-up of a human eye, showing the coloured iris and the dark pupil that lets light into the eye.
Photo: Kamil Saitov, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

Your guess

What's your hunch about what your eye does with the light that comes into it?

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