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I thought our eyes worked by projecting some kind of energy beam that scanned objects, like how Superman's X-ray vision is sometimes drawn.
Donβt feel too bad about it, even ancient Greek philosophers thought the same thing in the time before modern optics.
Thank you for sharing that. It was a lot of fun to read through. At the end I was like, wait how did I end up on this wiki?