eli5: why can’t our naked eye see microscopic things?

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Might seem obvious but I can’t wrap my head around why our eyes won’t let us see very small things.

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Our eyes have a finite resolution. There’s a minimum size beyond which we can’t make out anything smaller. Similar idea to the resolution of a screen; your screen can’t make out anything smaller than the size of its pixels.

Microorganism are smaller than the resolution of our eyes, so we can’t distinguish them

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