Thread: speed of light

the speed of light is pretty fast...... but how fast is the speed of thought?

I guess the speed of thought would be the speed that electrical signals can be sent, recieved and interpreted by your brain. I think that the average speed was written somewhere.... but it would probably be different for different people....

I think the speed of thought is not measerable.

not at all.

and by the way APHIUS, check out the dry spells forum in GENERAL Disucussion...i posted a dry spells forum...maybe some of the tips could help you out...

I know I must sound opinionated, maybe biased and quite possible jades. But sooner than later they’ll be throwing quarters to you on stage.[/b]

I've read somewhere that the speed of nervous impulse is around 30 meters per second... But I'm not really sure - it was too long ago.

This is a difficult subject in that it varies greatly with one's perspective. What is a thought to one person may be insignificant to another. If one defines a thought as simply an emotion, communicated in the language of your brain, then the speed of thought is extremely fast. But if you choose to set your bounds of thought to a cognition in your native tongue, then the speed of a thought slows dramatically. Remember, we can think much faster and more efficiently when we use the language of our minds, of our souls. When we limit ourselves to thinking in words, we're deprived quite a bit.

Chris.

It varies from person to person regardless of definition.

I honestly and truely believe your thought speed can be determined by how quickly you read.

Now, I am a fast reader. I know because I always finish reading anything handed out in class before even the teacher. And about 30 seconds to a minute or more before. Not that's any cause to study.
How does this correlate? I'm guessing because reading is basically repeating the words in your head. You are thinking when you read.

I think the more you know, the faster you can think. Its more like experience really. If I asked you to put you hand into a fire, you would, in most cases, say no right away. But if I asked someone who has no idea what fire is, they might take longer to think about it.

But just think how fast your thoughts fly...

Just the statment, "A picture says a thousand words" says it clearly

I dont think anyone will be able to measure how fast our brains/minds work, because the brain still almost COMPLETE mystery to all scientists.

Blessed is she who clearly sees the wood for the trees.
To obtain a ‘bird’s eye’ is to turn a blizzard into a breeze.[/b]

They are getting there finaly.

Now when you say thought, do you mean the electrochemical signals in the brain? OR the manifestation of the spirit
Electrochemical signals can be measured and it would vary by person.

The spirit interacts with the brain on a sub plank period of time, plank time is the smallest measure of time calculable. When you get smaller, time acts funny, just like matter does when you take it down to the quantum level.

So this means the spirit can interact with the brain VERY fast, it has to, in order to influence the electrochemical signals in the brain it must be on this tiny time scale, it requires a much smaller amount of energy to do so. And its the only way our spirits can enact enough will to influence the nerves in our brains.

The brain in turn is an amplification device, whic is pretty convenient, we dont need to enact the enourmous amount of will directly on our bodies to move them on a scale of seconds. We got these handy meat machines to galavant around in =) But it is slow...
There is a significant drop in transmission speed.

Think about the most vivid dreams you have, all the sensory input feeling everything, can you consiously put that much detail into a scene in real time?
All that is experienced from the spirit directly when you dream, thats why time becomes irrelivent in most cases and does not have to correlate to time here.

/rant off/

Sorry everybody, I just got all technical for some reason on that....
I swear it'll never happen again! I pride myself on my nonsensical mumbo jumbo.

Originally posted by Lowercase Society
and by the way APHIUS, check out the dry spells forum in GENERAL Disucussion...i posted a dry spells forum...maybe some of the tips could help you out...

I'll do that.

Shoot Seri,

You beat me to it! That's what I was going to say!

Here's something weird I thought about at school today, being bored sitting there silently like I always do.

Alright. You know the nerves "and stuff" that connects your eye and your brain? And how neurons "and stuff" are really slow... So with an object, say an exploding bomb, the speed of light hits your eye, and is SLOWLY being transmitted to your brain... Meanwhile, there's tons more speed-of-light light coming in, wouldn't this create a bottleneck-type effect?

If anyone got that...

I bet the brain is just stupid and kicks out about half of the light-information we receive.

very much so...

There is some really cool high speed photography of stuff we miss because of that bottleneck.

Theres the classic bullet through an apple which is cool as hell...

There is also one of an atomic explosion... and its well hang on its link time...

http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/maspd/galleries_...speedphoto.html

Yeah so see for yourself =)

Look up Harold Edgerton too he is the one who did the a-bomb shots, he did alot of other facinating stuff too.