Strange Eye Proteins Allow Birds to Actually See Earth’s Magnetic Field
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2018 7:49 am
maybe we could develop some eyedrops, special glasses, or gene transfer.......
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/04/s ... tic-field/
Strange Eye Proteins Allow Birds to Actually See Earth’s Magnetic Field
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/04/s ... tic-field/
Strange Eye Proteins Allow Birds to Actually See Earth’s Magnetic Field
hat is, according to two recently published papers by biologists at the University of Lund in Sweden and Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg in Germany. The Swedish researchers studied zebra finches, while the German team studied European robins, and both studies found the same thing. It appears that a protein found in birds’ eyes—a protein called a cryptochrome, that’s linked to circadian rhythms—lets birds see the earths magnetic field as another layer of their vision, an ability called magnetoreception. The researchers say that more studies are needed to conclusively prove this, this but the evidence is very strong
The mechanics of how cryptochromes might translate magnetism into light is equally as strange. Scientists think magnetoreception might be due to something called “quantum coherence.” The hypothesis states that when light hits birds’ eyes, the cryptochrome proteins produce two free radical electrons which are transferred between molecules on their way to becoming information in the bird’s brain. These electrons are linked on a quantum level and are sensitive enough to the ambient magnetic field that it can affect the spin, thus sending information about the earth’s magnetic field to the visual processing center of the bird’s brain.