How fast does a thought travel through space?

Question

Assuming a thought can travel outside of our mind. How fast can it go and would'nt it be more economical than SETI to connect with a higher intelligence outside our solar system?

Answer 1

As fast as radio waves, about 186000 miles per second.

Answer 2

Thought is detectible outside the mind. New game controllers allow a player to make simple movements such as "lift" or "swing" only by picturing it in their mind (while wearing the special helmet). Back on topic, these EM signals travel at the speed of light, just like any other EM field, but they are so weak compared to other forms of wireless communication that they can only be detected within a few inches of the source, let alone millions of light-years.
It is possible that superintelligent beings would have much larger emissions, however. Still, I personally doubt we will ever make contact with extraterrestrials via passively detected radio signals. Even our most powerful transmitters would not reach our most powerful receivers in our closest neighboring solar system.

Answer 3

I can do this without even trying. It takes a mono second to send a thought or pick up a thought. I have telepathy thinking and it's enough to make me really wonder" How did that happen?" it has happened way to many times to be an accident. I have had this since I was younger and I'm now 65! My communication is mainly with the telephone but also in other ways.

Answer 4

Telepathy is transmission and receiving of though of one person (mind) to another person. This is very personal experiences and there is no scientific support or evidence that a thought can travel outside of the brain, and off into space.
If you have visited some place (in the past) and think of it, you probably will recollect very fine details of that place from your memories. This can be said travelling of thoughts in past and to a great distance. The speed is no limitation in this case. There is a great deal of pseudoscience surrounding the concept of telepathy and travel of thought, but it has never been demonstrated in a reproducible manner with reputable research facility.
A thought is a process that occurs within the brain. We can monitor the activity of brain to a certain extent using MRI and other instruments, but there is no evidence of any sort of "brain waves" that travel a distance away from the brain and can be reconstructed into thoughts. This kind of thing makes for great stories in fantasy and science fiction, but it is not demonstrable or useful in real-world attempts to explore the universe at present. Proved manner of transmitting thought through telepathy or other method may become a reality in near future.

Answer 5

Why would you speculate on something for which no evidence exists?

Assuming we can fill a Boeing 737's fuel tanks to power the engines, how much power can you get? In the event the assumption is wrong - and here no evidence exists to claim otherwise - the question is meaningless. Sort of like asking "how do we fill a bucket with an infinite number of ducklings", or "What happens when an immovable object is met with an irresistible force?". Or even "If a flock of ducks is flying in the vacuum of deep space, how do they survive?". And here the problem is, if no ducks have ever flown in deep space, who's to say they can survive in the first place? And so the question becomes meaningless. The merit of such questions, if any, lies in their exercise of the imagination.

First, you ensure the question isn't meaningless. In other words, you scour for evidence that it, at least, is plausible. Only then can you research the specifics.

Answer 6

There is no scientific evidence that a thought can travel outside of the brain, and off into space. There's a great deal of pseudoscience surrounding the concept, of course, but it has never been demonstrated in a reputable research facility and published in a peer-reviewed journal. Without that, there's no way to know if what people are saying happened did indeed happen, or if it was made up, or if it happened but was misinterpreted, or what.

A thought is a process that occurs within the brain. We can monitor the brain to a certain extent, but there is no evidence of any sort of "brain waves" that travel a distance away from the brain and can be reconstructed into thoughts.

This kind of thing makes for great stories in fantasy and science fiction, but it's not demonstrable or useful in real-world attempts to explore the universe.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

If a thought could travel outside the human brain it would travel at the speed of light.
You would have detect it.decipher it amplify it and feed it into a transmitter
It could be a very challenging project.

Answer 9

Thoughts travel faster than light (exact speed unknown to human being) on earth or in space. And thought can go to place where nothing else (including light, sound, air etc) can go.

PS: Thought only travel from our minds to outside our minds.

Answer 10

if thought could travel through space it would surely change its form of energy thusly changing its speed.

Since this has never been accomplished, we don't know how fast it would be.

I think broadcasting radio stations is probably more effecient than seti collecting and sifting.
Let them come to us.

forget thought traveling through space, I want in other dimensions
http://www.tv-links.co.uk/video/9/5239/7817/50610/73742

Answer 11

If you assume a thought can travel outside of our mind, you'll also have to assume how fast it goes.