Re: Floaters and gravity

On 23 feb, 20:13, The Real Bev <bashley101+use...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Keizer wrote:
The wikipedia article about floaters contains the following claim: <
Despite the name "floaters", many of these specks have a tendency to
sink toward the bottom of the eyeball, in whichever way the eyeball is
oriented; the supine position (looking up or lying back) tends to
concentrate them near the fovea, which is the center of gaze ... >. Is
that a valid claim? My personal experience is that when looking down
at the reflection of the sky in a mirror I see the same floaters as
when looking up at the sky.

Time is involved.  If you gaze at the same spot in the sky you'll notice
that the visible floaters stay pretty much in the same place --
unfortunately.  It takes them quite a while to move to a less-annoying
place.  I've tried to get the eye-contents (ashamed to say I've
forgotten the word, but I'll remember it as soon as I hit 'send') moving
by flicking my gaze back and forth and I've never been able to figure
out how to do it in order to get rid of the damn floater(s) NOW.

Ok. After an eye motion my floaters end up slightly displaced, but
each floater remains within limited boundaries around its permanent
average location. Surely my floaters do not sink toward the bottom of
the eyeball as claimed in the wikipedia article. It would have been
nice if floaters would sink to the bottom because that would nearly
always move them out of sight.
.

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