After all one single thought process of a human being can involve millions of neurotransmitters which are all electrical impulses that travel close to the speed of light anyway.
Is this a crazy theory???
2007-01-23 02:19:43 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
hmmm.. that is certainly food for thought.
2007-01-23 02:23:33 · answer #1 · answered by breezinabout 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nerve transmission is much much slower than the speed of light. Neurotransmitters diffuse across synapses to carry an impulse from one cell to the next. Also, within a neuron the action potential travels down a nerve at a relatively slow speed. You can surely find those speeds somewhere, but it's really quite slow.
2007-01-23 02:25:03 · answer #2 · answered by hcbiochem 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is not a crazy theory, just an erroneous one!
The transmission of impules within our brains is very slow in comparison to the speed of light.
However, you are thinking of the process as a Single, Sequencial process: starts somewhere, goes in meandres, reaches somewhere, as a single convoluted line.
Nothing is more wrong!
Our brain is a fantastic PARALLEL processor, with billions of operations happening AT THE SAME TIME.
If you cumul all of them, then, yes, it "appears" to go faster than light!
2007-01-23 03:21:09 · answer #3 · answered by just "JR" 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that you could be partially right. I think, because the brain appears to be able to run so many thought processes at once, and at near light speed, after all it is electrical, that a whole past scene can be produced from memory seemingly instantly.
And a moving picture at that.
2007-01-23 07:06:01 · answer #4 · answered by Spanner 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think there would be some delay, although with impulses traveling at the speed of light, which is 186,000 miles or 300,000,000 meters per second... I don't know you could measure it for such a short distance.
2007-01-23 02:29:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, thats crazy. From the theory of special relativity your brain's mass would have to be infinite for light speed to be enabled
2007-01-23 02:28:32 · answer #6 · answered by SS4 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry to say that your idea IS CRAZY.
A thought requires x thousand neurons regardless of how the neurons communicate. The medium of connecting neurons is the key here, and light moves 7 times faster than electricity (one of the ways our neurons communicate).
So it is obvious that a brain whose neurons communicate by light would be faster than a brain whose neurons communicate by electro-chemistry.
2007-01-24 00:41:40 · answer #7 · answered by Chris W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure its a loopy thought. electric powered impulses firing interior the techniques (theory) shuttle slightly slower than gentle velocity thank you to the Myelin sheath surrounding nerve cells. As its been defined someplace else only by way of fact a number of nerves are firing at as quickly as the effect isn't cumulative.
2016-12-16 11:27:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep -- off the deep edge. Got any proof to support it ?
2007-01-23 02:34:53 · answer #9 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Crazy...
Not faster than light, as you say yourself it is close - but not faster.
2007-01-23 02:22:51 · answer #10 · answered by MarauderX 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋