Light has a speed, so does thoughts have a speed?
If it does is it faster than light or the same?
2006-09-05 17:28:18 · 11 answers · asked by jay 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
G'day Jay,
Thank you for your question.
It wouldn't be faster than the speed of light or the same speed due to the theory of relativity.
Scientists at Johns Hopkins have measured it at around 300 milliseconds to begin to understand a picture. Add to that another 250 to 450 milliseconds to fully comprehend what it was. Total speed of thought: between 550 and 750 milliseconds.
I have attached sources for your reference.
Regards
2006-09-05 17:35:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I once had a mentor when I was sixteen and he was very wise.
He asked me to imagine that we were at the beach, I did and we were actually there briefly. To me... it was very real. Maybe more real than the 90 years that we live ... which is just a blink of the universal eye.
Einstein is only the brilliant starting place the Universe is not made up of just atoms, as we know already ... it is made up of something much closer to mind or thought.
Yes, thought is much faster than 186,000 miles per second ... it is instantaneous.
Yours T
Jonnie
2006-09-05 18:25:28 · answer #2 · answered by Jonnie 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. Brainwaves are electromagnetic waves. All EM waves, including visible light, radio, gamma, ulta-violet, microwave, etc. travel at or essentailly near the "speed of light".
2006-09-05 17:31:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The same speed of electricity.
2006-09-05 17:31:11 · answer #4 · answered by IceCream 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it should be even less yhan electricity speed!
cuz the velocity of electrons are not too high in Cu or Au etc!!
so it should be less in our brain,because it is a biologic circuit.
the thing that would matter, is it's band width,which I've heard is sth. about 33mhz per sec
2006-09-05 17:33:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the human brain uses electrical currents and chemical impulses to store and move information. therefore, knowing that electrical currents and chemical signals are slower than light, light is faster than the human brain.
2006-09-05 17:31:20 · answer #6 · answered by nicholas_dloniak 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be slower since the electrical impulses of your thoughts have to travel through a resisting material(your brain.)
2006-09-05 17:31:50 · answer #7 · answered by rcrespo@sbcglobal.net 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i see what it potential, yet i thoroughly disagree. moving on is the annoying section, what you left at the back of will become of no situation to you, through fact you already moved on from it, i.e triumph over it. moving on is the undertaking in my eyes. as quickly as you moved on you do not care with regard to the previous. this sentence is fundumentaly flawd.
2016-11-24 23:53:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This has been discussed here:
http://www2.abc.net.au/science/k2/stn/july2000/posts/topic97520.shtm
2006-09-05 17:32:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
only in your mind.
2006-09-05 17:29:58 · answer #10 · answered by flinkadouchie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋