I thought that I’d heard this once and found it to be a fascinating bit of trivia, but when I looked on google for some verification of such a fact, all i saw was this ‘fact’ listed in those giant ‘glurge trivia’ lists along with the duck’s quack not echoing thing. So is this just some bs to forward through the email or a fact?
A six pack from a new father hangs in the balance.
Changes in ocular structure and visual function with “normal” aging lists 29 age related changes in vision, including:
Nothing about the eyeball itself getting bigger. I don’t see how it could without protruding, what with the bone socket and all.
See this previous thread. Eyes, do indeed, grow.
See this previous thread. Eyes do, indeed, grow.
Of course eyeballs grow. They’re quite small at birth, and grow proportionally along with the rest of the body, stopping about the same time that bony growth stops. Once the orbits of the skull stop growing, the eyes had better stop too, or you get exophthalmos, or bulgy eyes.
Google “ocular growth” and you get tons of articles on ocular development, and problems of myopia due to less than ideal growth.
now seriously. Why in the name of jesus didn’t that thread come up when I searched “eyeballs grow”
I wondered the same thing when I searched for it. Turns out, the word “eyeballs” was never used. Try searching on “eyes grow”.
so we’ve all learned something here tonight. Let’s wrap it up and go get a sandwich.
Childhood? Adolescence? What are these obscure technical terms? It never ocurred to me jarbabyj might be asking about something other than the eyeballs of adults. :smack:
On the other hand the word “eueballs” was. 
By the way, my eyeballs aren’t the same size. The difference in diameter (front view) is a little over a millimeter.