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As long as I’ve been associated with the character there have been people who troubled themselves over the practical matters of Scott’s eyes. Big question being, with energy constantly pouring OUT of his eyes, how does light get IN? This was one of those questions that, for me, needed to be filed in the same folder as the Thing’s missing pinkie fingers and how Spider-man could cling to walls with gloves and boots on. The title on that folder would be DON’T ASK! 封 I always figured that you need to suspend your disbelief for this stuff. Otherwise, how can Superman fly? (Or Kalark if you prefer.) With Scott's eyes, though, it does not take much scientific stretching to imagine how light gets into his eyes when energy is pouring out from the other direction. Wave theory posits that light can bend around obstacles and through narrow openings. Einstein's quantum theory of light accommodated both the particle and wave theories of light, and he observed that even gravitational pull can bend the direction of light, whether it be waves or particles. I guess nobody really knows for sure since neither theory has graduated to scientific law. Here I am over-analyzing something that should not require scientific explanation for enjoyment of the story, but that is how I see it. Do I get a No-Prize?
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