2006-09-19 15:36:01 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Light and eye sight.
2006-09-19 15:43:05 · answer #1 · answered by Shanigirl 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This sounds like a goof but I'll bite anyhow.
The 'seeing' part is as the other Answerers stated, 'ink creates dark areas on the paper and the lens of your eye forms a corresponding image on the retina of your eye with the light that enters it.
Maybe what you're really asking is 'how is it that we gather any useful information from the squiggly lines that appear on a piece of paper?'.
This is out of my area but I think it has to do with our brains' ability to learn and interpret what it 'sees'. If the squiggly lines turn out to be letters arranged to form English words, then we see them. If the squiggly lines turn out to be characters of the Chinese 'alphabet' or letters arranged to form German words (and we don't know any German), then we see them as so many squiggly lines, or, we are simply unable to gather any useful information from them.
My point is that we need to have learned beforehand what's written on the paper before we can say that we see what's there.
2006-09-19 23:16:16 · answer #2 · answered by abeginsberg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your eyes , ink on paper and the way light reflects in the inked paper
2006-09-19 22:41:50 · answer #3 · answered by runlolarun 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
light rays hit the paper and reflect. since the text is darker than the paper, some light will be absorbed by it while more will be reflected from the white paper.
2006-09-19 22:40:00 · answer #4 · answered by foxtrot 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Maybe the ink that goes on the paper?
2006-09-19 22:39:09 · answer #5 · answered by dirtmerchant_12b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the ink absorbes diffrent light than papper, thats why it is vissible to the naked eye.
2006-09-19 22:44:51 · answer #6 · answered by Eric 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ugh, your eyes
2006-09-19 22:38:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That would be your eyes
2006-09-19 22:45:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
eyeballs
2006-09-19 22:43:36 · answer #9 · answered by joalteeth 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋