A colleague says that maybe the speed of sight or even thought is faster I disagree sounds silly to me what do you think?
2006-10-05 21:34:57 · 31 answers · asked by JOHN M 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
You're right! Speed of sight or thought is NO where near the speed of light. Most neural electrochemical transmission occurs in the millisecond range.
Another fact you might find interesting is that the speed of light limit is only for transfer of information or signal. There is actually NO limit on speed. So in measuring the expansion of the Universe, we have discovered that there are galaxies moving away from us at speeds greater than the speed of light.
2006-10-05 22:11:28 · answer #1 · answered by TotalEclipse 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The speed of sight relies on light so is therefore no faster than light. The speed of thought works on electrical impulses and is also therefore no faster than light. There is probably something faster that we have not discovered yet. We cannot be so small minded that we believe we have already found the fastest thing in the universe. We all thought that in the early 80's when the lambourgini countach came out and we were wrong then too.
2006-10-06 04:50:44 · answer #2 · answered by davespnr 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Speed of sight would be the speed of light, and speed of thought is an abstract idea, so I'd agree rather silly.
The only thing I know that operates faster than light is quantum entanglement. This happens when a process creates two particles that remain somehow connected however far apart they become. If you measure the state of one of the pair the other assumes the opposite state instantaneously. They could in principle be on opposite sides of the universe, but they'd still respond in zero time. Very weird, but has been verified by experiment.
2006-10-06 13:28:39 · answer #3 · answered by black sheep 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Seeing as you see light, the "speed of sight" could not be faster than the speed of light. If it were, you would "see" objects before the light reflected by those objects reached you. If that was the case, you would not actually be able to see the object until the light reached you.
In theory, it is possible that something is faster than the speed of light, but we are yet to know what it is.
In my view, the only way to go faster than the speed of light would be to accelerate the speed of light somehow. However,this would make the speed of light faster and you would be back to square 1.
2006-10-09 05:52:33 · answer #4 · answered by Ian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The says that say about speed of sight or thought is faster than light speed are wrong, because these speeds are the chemical electric speed, so there is no speed faster than the light speed.
2006-10-06 05:14:59 · answer #5 · answered by qutheim 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes. there is only one thing that is faster than the light:
Stopped in a roadcrossing.
The red light turns to green.
At the same moment I hear the horn of the car which was near to my back bumper.
Moral: The fastest thing is the sound of a horn.
But according to Albert, if the speed of a body reaches to the speed of light, all the mass of this body shall be converted into energy, so nothing can be faster than the light ( except horn sound).
2006-10-06 06:09:08 · answer #6 · answered by istanbulengineer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer is no.
People always refer to the 'speed of light' as being somehow special but 'light' in this case just means photons which happen to be a massless particle. Relativity is tough to casually describe but as you get faster loads of interesting things happens including time effectivly slowing down and 'mass' increasing. As the speed gets faster this increase of mass makes it harder and harder to get any faster which limits how fast anything can go. The obvious exception to this is massless particles which are not effected by mass increase. Massless particles (including light) always move at the maximum possible speed and have an infinite mass multiplier (0 x infinity still = 0) and an infinite slowdown of time. For a massless particle time does not exist - I know that is hard to imagine but it is true.
2006-10-07 15:30:57 · answer #7 · answered by m.paley 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Albert Einstein showed that nothing can move faster than the speed of light in a vacuum (186,000 miles per second). However, light travels more slowly through transparent substance sand this is related to the refractive index of the substance. For example, the speed of light in diamond is 77,500 miles per second. In such conditions other things can overtake light. This is the basis of Cerenkov radiation in nuclear reactors.
Having said that it assumes we have absolute knowledge and that our current models ill always be correct.
2006-10-06 11:52:40 · answer #8 · answered by RATTY 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
tell youcollegue yo stand in open groung then make focus on his finger infont of him (eye level) then immidietly at the saem direction 10 miles away. it will take him some time to do so.
try to measure it if possible.
you will see that there is no mtch for the speed of light.
(there is an old joke that tells to physics world that the fastest thing in the world is diarrhea when you sleep. because when you get up if you manage you do not have time to think what to do not the clear mind to switch on the light. so mind and light are traveling slower than the need of going to the toilet when Diarrhea attacks) silly joke i know
2006-10-06 05:16:29 · answer #9 · answered by Emmanuel P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The fastest known source is etiquinoblem pluton fhg=031.
It is a type of space gas which can travel up to 200 times faster than light, milder versions of this gas were going to be used for space travel but no person or craft could survive the speeds.
Dr waldren owen PHDS. SPRA.
2006-10-06 16:33:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋