Yes, John: THANKS!
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These are the kinds of conversations that are valuable to any similar forum.
My oldest son was born with severe strabismus. When he was a year old, he went under the knife of Zane Pollard of Atlanta, one of the nation’s top ophthalmological surgeons. Debbie and I had to trust him, although he was a young man with only 19 degrees, certificates, and awards on his wall. Zane corrected his strabismus to 7 degrees. The assumption was that, after a time, the brain would compensate.
It has been proven in college experiments that students fitted with prismatic eyeglasses, which would invert their vision, would, in a few hours, have their view righted by a brain that did not want to play the game. Then, within a few hours of the experiment being concluded, their vision—with the discarding of those glasses—would be returned to normal.
Sometime later, as I wondered about his ability to play sports—primarily baseball—another ophthalmic surgeon (shoot me now, I can’t remember his name*) told me while he was developing the proper perception, the brain would work as follows:
Subconsciously, he knows a baseball is x inches in diameter. As the ball is approaching him appearing .5 inches, .75 inches, 1.5 inches, 2 inches diameter, etc. (all within a tiny fraction of a second) those rapid-fire cues will tell him when to raise his glove and in which location.
A hundred year from now, our time could easily be seen as we see the “blood-letting” of the past as being a valuable medical procedure, for I have no doubt that as often as not what we THINK we know ... we don’t. Each generation of scientist seems to prove a large portion of the previous generation of scientists to have been in error.
“Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.”— Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer
* Please don’t quote that. A “fact” without a verifiable source is just a personal whim, notion, or opinion.
Bill