My ten years old got into soccer recently and he’s getting good at it, except, he has this paranoia that he’ll get blind (or will have severe eye damage) if he traces the ball through the air against a sunny backdrop. Because of this he won’t practice in the evening and this is when most training happens.
We had an eclipse recently and I think he took the “don’t look at the sun” mantra way too far and I don’t know how to undo that.
Please help!!!
In: Physics
Congrats for having a kid with a thinking cap on. Get him some sports wraparound sunglasses and tell him by the time the sun’s down near the horizon, it is being filtered through a lot more atmosphere (so less of it is reaching him) than where it was when a president was challenging it to a staring contest. I don’t think he’s 100% in the wrong here tbh, but that has to do with eyes adjusting to sun vs soccer ball in the moments before sunset.
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