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84 ALLAH'S ART OF DETAIL

The Superior Details in a Pair of Eyes

When you look at these lines, an electric current traveling at

500 km per hour (310.7 mph) begins moving from your eyes to
your brain by any of its 600,000 nerves. When the current is trans-
mitted, you begin reading the lines before you.
The eye is linked to the brain by 600,000 nerves, which simul-
taneously receive and arrange 1.5 million messages at the same time
and send them to the brain at 500 km an hour (310,7 mph). When
you look at a single point, you actually see hundreds of different de-
tails that the eye distinguishes from all of the massages reaching it
and then analyzes and forwards to the brain. While this book
you are holding is quite close to you, the scene
you see in the background is, at
the same time,
comparatively far
away. And yet