RETINAL PHOTONIC STIMULATION: A QUANTUM MECHANICAL EFFECT
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https://doi.org/10.55197/qjoest.v7i1.277Keywords:
photon, retina, electromagnetc radiation, clorophillose photosynthesis, energy, Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP)Abstract
The radiation pressure of light acts on retinal photoreceptors with a frankly quantum-mechanical effect. It follows that, in agreement with Feynman, to fully understand the marvelous Mechanism of Seeing in all its essence, it is necessary to consider that not only Biochemistry, but also solid-state Physics plays a major role in this phenomenon. Analyzing a rod cell under an electronic microscope, layer after layer of plane structures containing rhodopsin molecules are all aligned with each other. It may be that all of the molecules are arranged in some kind of a row so that when one is excited an electron which is generated may run all the way down to some place at the end to get the signal out, or something like it, will ultimately be used. That is, just like a domino effect! This powerful quantum-mechanical action, with which photons act on the retinal pigment molecules, can be better justified and understood if we take into account, as emerges from our calculations, that the momentum of a photon in the optical band carries a mass-energy density equal to 1.325∙10-22 grams per centimeter per second, that is, over 100,000 times greater than the rest mass of an electron.
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