Friday, October 28, 2011

The Human Eye May Act as a Compass?

 Scientists have found that the human eye may be like a compass in this article. As you know a compass works with a magnetic field, and scientist have found that an eye may work very similar. This magneto-receptive is a protein. Its present in one of two ways-one being that it is in every animal on planet Earth. A man named Dr. Reppert from the University of Massachusetts has found that if you remove the protein from the eyes of a fly that it loses its ability to respond to a magnetic field. But, what he also found is if you make the human version of the protein able to go back into the flies eyes , through genetic engineering, the ability returns. It's kind of cool if you think about it. Plus, earlier work has been done in the 1980's by a Dr. Robin Baker. Hundreds of experiments have been done by him and he has found subtle evidence that humans could indirectly have magnetic fields. It could be true, and in my opinion , one of the coolest discoveries I have ever heard of.

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