Humans have two eyes separated by about 8.7 cm and a marvelous computer between the ears. If this optical interferometer is just as good as one eyeball and as large as the separation of two regular eyeballs, what is the diffraction limit in arcsec of human vision for visible light at 607 nm

Humans have two eyes separated by about 8.7 cm and a marvelous computer between the ears. If this optical interferometer is just as good as one eyeball and as large as the separation of two regular eyeballs, what is the diffraction limit in arcsec of human vision for visible light at 607 nm

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