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What's the purpose of this research?
I’m an engineer with a CS minor and ADHD; this kind of research is what I do with my freetime lol.
To be fair this is kind of a shared hobby project/topic between me and my friend (who is a biophysics major now in med school).
Anyway, point is that you don’t need to have a real “purpose” in order to be curious. I work in a robotics/medical lab at my university and my friends is trying to be a surgeon, yet we’re constantly in debates about astro and quantum physics to the point we’ve gotten career physicists to weigh in on our arguments.
No relevance to our majors or our work, but super fucking interesting and full of gaps where there are more theories than facts. Plenty of room for new perspectives.
Normalize doing research for fun!
Are you doing a postdoc? Masters?
Edit: Listen, it's pretty clear you're talking out of your ass. You're an undergrad who has never performed graduate-level research. You're not an engineer. You don't understand ocular biology. You just write a lot of bullshit and expect the people you're talking with to be dazzled by the academic tone.
Graduate, get a job, put in work, then claim to be an engineer. Your behavior is embarrassing.