Comment on In the dark, does anyone else sense things but not see them?
turbowafflz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Your peripheral vision works better than the center of your vision in low light, that’s why you can sort of see things in the edge of your field of view but not when you directly look at them
over_clox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Above and beyond that, scientists say the rods of the eye are sensitive enough to detect individual photons.
I can’t confirm that myself, but it seems about right to me.
Bigfish@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
Yeah, we did a lab on this in college. Rods are sensitive enough to be triggered by <10 photons, cones take around 100x more to fire.