Strange movement in eye drops
Reexamination of a bottle of pharmacy brand eye drops. Per my usual method: 1 slide, 2 drops, 1 cover slip to cover 1 drop. Immediately observed large filaments with unsettling internal features. One filament in particular exhibited a clear tear/rupture.
I also noted the presence of large bubbles containing fields of smaller bubbles. These bubbles would routinely appear to be in contact with many of the foreign contaminants I found within the sample.
Upon closer magnification of the ruptured red filament, I observed minute movement occurring directly inside the damaged area. The footage is grainy and the action is subtle so I've added arrows to indicate where to focus.
They appear like bubbles that slide and jostle against the contours of the filament. Additionally, I observed the drying process of the uncovered sample with hyperlapse in darkfield and got this result.
It’s incredibly frustrating to try and determine whether these filaments come from the slide, the environment (seemingly the most plausible source), the sample, or if they just materialize from thin air. No matter how quickly and cleanly I try to prepare a slide sample, it’s all but garunteed that the filmaments will make their way in. I’m more certain that the graphene-like objects do come from the sample. These eydrops have proven to be a very interesting study indeed.
Absolutely. I'll give it a shot and update here if anything noteworthy occurs. Thanks for the request.
Hello Will, I really like the way you presented this report - showing the source item studied.
The broken fibre activity was interesting, we don't see breaks in "them" normally. I wonder if they can re-stitch themselves? perhaps that was what the bots were arguing about !