what travels faster than the speed of light??

Question

my pov..i think our 'thoughts" travel faster than the speed of light..if ill say i wanna be in the Amazon right now my thoughts can get there instantaneously but light cant..though im not sure if we can measure the speed of our thoughts..just my views..what do you all think..

Answer 1

The speed of transmission of a signal along a nerve cell (known to neurologists as the 'action potential speed of propagation') is anywhere from 10 to 100 meters per second (that's roughly 200 mph at top speed), with differences depending on the type of nerve cell and the like. Fairly fast as far as natural things go, but nowhere near the ridiculous speeds it is reputed to proceed at, much less the speed of light. Your brain is tightly packed enough that it doesn't NEED ridiculous speeds.

On the other hand, there are things that can theoretically move faster than light. I recall one physicist who set up an experiment using quantum tunnelling that could send a signal (he used music) at about three times the speed of light. Another little-known effect that has no theoretical limit is the expansion of space itself... so it may be possible to contruct a device that makes space contract in front of a vehicle and expand behind it, making it move faster than light even when it's not moving!

Your imagination is not particularly bound by any particular physical law... but I don't think most people would suggest that your imagination has the same level of reality as the external world does. Even though you can imagine yourself at the local bookstore, if you want to know if they've sold out of a book you are interested in, an actual phone call would probably work a lot better!

Of course, if you can imagine the book completely enough, it doesn't much matter if it's out of stock in the real world, does it? Heh.

Answer 2

Your thoughts travel via electric impulses, which are also part of the electromagnetic spectrum, the particles of which, even energy quanta, are also subject to the speed limit of the universe, which is 186, 282 miles per SECOND, the speed of light, (in a vacuum) ~ but not appreciably less outside one, either.

Your thoughts and light would get there simultaneously, as they are both travelling through the same medium.

I do believe that thoughts can arrive at their destination instantaneously, but that does not mean that they are going faster than the speed of light.

And the word "instantaneously" would not apply depending on the distance travelled. Distances on earth are negligable compared to those found out in the universe! Getting to the Amazon is nothing for light to travel...

Thoughts and light would arrive billions of light years away simultaneously, but not instantaneously, if you catch my drift.

BIG difference!

Answer 3

when you think about a place that doesn't mean you have send out any physical object or energetic signals to that place, you have simply created an image of that place, so light is still faster. when you look at something, how fast can you see it, that is the speed of light, so i think light is even faster than you think about something else. however there is something that is faster than the speed of light, that is black-whole, even light cant escape it so it must be faster than light, the force i would imagine is gravity, so at some situations gravity can be faster than light. if there is such thing as a black-whole and white-wholes then opening up a portal in one part of the universe and sending radio signal through it and released on the other side through the white-whole then that would be faster than light because its over a great distance and instantaneous.

Answer 4

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I got this from a website, and copied it into a document, but I forgot to copy the source name.

"The physical reality of the Uncertainty Principle is demonstrated by a phenomenon called "quantum tunneling," which actually permits a particle to jump, spontaneously, to places it couldn't reach by linear travel.

As electronic components are made smaller and faster, they're increasingly plagued by "leakage" of tunneled electrons into unwanted areas. Other components—particularly those in quantum computers—are designed specifically to exploit this phenomenon.

The same trick works for photons; with a device called a waveguide, it's rather easy to create barriers across which microwave photons are incapable of traveling. But some small fraction of the photons can tunnel across it, appearing suddenly on the other side as if by magic.

That's not the strange part. Gunter Nimtz noticed that the time required for a photon to tunnel across such barriers was constant, regardless of the distances involved. In fact, if the distance was more than a few cms, the photon would leap across the gap faster than it could have traveled across it. Faster than "c." Faster than light.

Again, this was not a sleight of hand or trick of math: Nimtz actually broadcast Mozart's 40th symphony across a tabletop waveguide, and reconstructed on the other side an intelligible recording which had tunneled there at 4.7 times the speed of light. (Roughly 1 out of every 100,000 photons successfully tunneled across the barrier, a fraction which drops off exponentially as the barrier width increases.)" ♪♫ ♪♫
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Answer 5

All observers will measure the speed of light in a vacuum to be the same number, no matter how fast they are moving. It does not matter if you accelerate up to 99% the speed of light (relative to the Earth), then shine a flashlight ahead of you. The beam will still outrun you by 100% the speed of light, from your perspective.

Answer 6

Wrong! my thought can not be their without first perceiving what the Amazon looks like, etc. Moreover, thoughts are bound by the electrical current in our brain which means, again, the speed of light.

Religious people will say, the will of God as when He wills something to be, it is.

Non-religious people may argue about few things, but they will end up saying, we do not know yet!

Answer 7

Actually there are theories that quaps -sub-particles that make up protons and neutrons- could possibly move faster than the speed of light too. But I think this is still in the theory stage.

Answer 8

Nice try but no cigar. Thoughts depend on neuritic signals within the brain which are essentially chemical in nature. This depends on electrons flashing from location to location giving off photons of light in the process. The neuritic signal has been measured enumerable times. It is about 270,000 meters/second. Far slower than light.

Thoughts are only images that our brain interprets. They have no more substantial reality than picture on your computer screen. So you haven't gone anywhere.

Answer 9

I had a teacher that speculated on this also. He believed that we would use this form of communications someday since it would be faster than light. He believed that for space exploration, we would need something faster than light to communicate over very long distances.

Answer 10

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