Oh cool! I hadn’t considered that. The crystallin and vitreous humor in the eye do indeed have a refractive index similar to water, so Cherenkov radiation happens at less than 1 MeV IIRC, so it comes down to how much light would actually be produced in such a small volume. It does seem perfectly feasible!
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peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 19 hours agoIIRC the flash wasn’t discernable from being the air or the aqueous/vitreous humor in the eye.
I think it’s been hypothesized that the eye jello allows for a much lower energy particle to to create the flash. They do know it’s possible to induce it, but it’s not exactly ethical to test the conditions that created the various criticality accidents to find out.
sleep_deprived@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
Zwiebel@feddit.org 3 hours ago
So we can see radiation afferall
nialv7@lemmy.world 11 minutes ago
I heard it’s also possible that the radiation hit your retina and make your neurons go off? Maybe even your vision cortex?