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You know how sometimes when you sneeze or something the numbers on a digital clock look like they're moving? Like all of the lines that make them up move away from each other. Why is that?

2007-12-03 14:51:05 · 3 answers · asked by spuality 2 in Science & Mathematics Physics

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It has to do with the way your eyes change focus when you sneeze. The tension in the eyes changes their size and the muscles of the eyes compensate to refocus, but the changes add up to a slighty larger image for a moment.

2007-12-03 15:03:13 · answer #1 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 0 0

the two the numerals of the digital clock certainly jumped which relies upon on a particular clock and could be observable via others ... in any different case you focused your interest on the digital clock yet your eye by some skill jumped to work out something else beside it. once you seem quickly at an merchandise or component that's centred on the main gentle small element of the retina referred to as the fovea and all else is peripheral imaginitive and prescient. in the experience that your eye 'jumps' the component of concentration strikes into peripheral imaginitive and prescient and would look to bounce. this would additionally contain the two eyes and a blink, particularly if no longer attempting to concentration or possibly drained.

2016-12-30 11:57:55 · answer #2 · answered by herriage 3 · 0 0

i have no idea. but that happens to me aswell, also on tvs.

2007-12-03 14:58:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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