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“Light, Einstein said, always travels by us at the same measured speed—300,000 kmps no matter how fast the light source is traveling. This was certainly not how every day objects behaved. A train approaches and the conductor throws a mail bag forward toward a station; it goes without saying that someone standing on the station platform sees the bag approach at the speed of the train plus the speed at which the conductor habitually hurls mail. Einstein insisted that light was different: stand, your lantern raised, at a fixed distance from me and I see the light travel by me at 300,000 kmps. Hurtle toward me on a train, even one moving at 150,000 kmps (half the speed of light), and I still see the light from your lantern go by me at 300,000 kmps. According to Einstein’s second postulate, the speed of the source does not matter to the velocity of light.” (

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The fibulins are a family of proteins that are associated with basement membranes and elastic extracellular matrix fibres. It is evident that the fibulins are an ancient family of proteins which are highly conserved in species as evolutionarily distinct as worms and humans. Recent findings indicate the involvement of fibulins in inherited eye disorders. Fibulins 1 and 4 are candidate genes for retinopathies that …