Is thought faster than light?

While light travels at the rate of 186,000 miles per second, thoughts virtually travel in no time.
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How fast is the speed of thought?

In the 19th Century, Hermann von Helmholtz estimated this to be 35 metres per second, but we now know that some well-insulated nerves are faster, at up 120 metres per second.
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Is anything faster than light?

Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity famously dictates that no known object can travel faster than the speed of light in vacuum, which is 299,792 km/s. This speed limit makes it unlikely that humans will ever be able to send spacecraft to explore beyond our local area of the Milky Way.
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How fast do brains think?

It's amazing to consider that a given thought can be generated and acted on in less than 150 ms. Consider the sprinter at a starting line.
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Can thoughts travel?

While light travels at the rate of 186,000 miles per second, thoughts virtually travel in no time. Thought is finer than ether, the medium of electricity. Thoughts excel light in speed. While light travels at the rate of 186,000 miles per second, thoughts virtually travel in no time.
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Is human brain faster than light?

By thoughts I mean information in our brain, which obviously travels in the form of electrical signals( some neurotransmitters particle ions) and not faster than the maximum speed limit of any particle, which is less than the speed of light. So the information in our brain doesn't travel faster than light.
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What is the speed of dark?

Strictly speaking, dark is simply the absence of light, and thus has no speed at all, according to noted astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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Is a black hole faster than light?

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have seen that the famous giant black hole in Messier 87 is propelling particles at speeds greater than 99% of the speed of light.
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Is light faster than darkness?

Darkness travels at the speed of light. More accurately, darkness does not exist by itself as a unique physical entity, but is simply the absence of light. Any time you block out most of the light – for instance, by cupping your hands together – you get darkness.
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Can the Flash move faster than thought?

Depending on which nerves are involved, transmission speed can vary; regardless, nerve conduction tops out at around 250 miles per hour. Since the Flash can reach the speed of light, the speed of light is six orders of magnitude faster than the speed of thought!
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What is Goku's top speed?

Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot estimates that Goku's power levels are around 10 billion as of the Babidi Saga. By applying the same formula, this means that Goku, without Instant Transmission, can travel 22.321 trillion MPH -- or 33,314 times the speed of light!
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How fast is your brain in mph?

When we touch something, we send a message to our brain at 124 mph. Cold weather improves human memory and concentration. The width of an average human brain is 140 mm.
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Is there a speed of smell?

The time it takes to smell a chemical in the air is the time the chemical takes to travel in air to our nose, and for the nerve impulse to travel to the brain (milliseconds), so smells are almost instantaneous.
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Does darkness exist without light?

Colloquially, this is a minor point. It is however a very important distinction. Darkness doesn't exist, and therefore cannot spread or move, but light (which obviously does exist) can. And in doing so it can also leave an absence of light, and this absence will grow or shrink at the speed of light.
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How fast is a tachyon?

Tachyons are one of the most interesting elements arising from Einstein's theory of special relativity. The 1905 theory is based on two postulates, nothing with mass moves faster than the speed of light (c), and physical laws remain the same in all non-inertial reference frames.
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Can a wormhole exist?

In the early days of research on black holes, before they even had that name, physicists did not yet know if these bizarre objects existed in the real world.
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Can gravity move faster than light?

[+] Although the constants of electromagnetism never appear in the equations for Einstein's General Relativity, the speed of gravity undoubtedly equals the speed of light.
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Can gravity accelerate light?

Gravity does not affect a light ray, but the space and time through which the ray travels. In a strong gravitational field, the time passes slower, according to observers far away from the field.
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Can shadows move faster than light?

This is a little hard to wrap your head around, but shadows can move faster than the speed of light, even though nothing can move faster than the speed of light.
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Is light more powerful than dark?

But there is also light, and light will always be stronger than darkness.
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What is the fastest thing in the universe?

Light is fast. In fact, it is the fastest thing that exists, and a law of the universe is that nothing can move faster than light. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second (300,000 kilometers per second) and can go from the Earth to the Moon in just over a second.
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How fast is consciousness?

It is not until they have passed several processing steps that the stimuli reach conscious perception. This unconscious processing prior to perception usually takes approximately 300 milliseconds.
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Do thoughts produce energy?

Weighty thoughts

The brain's rate of caloric burning increases when engaged in cognitively demanding tasks. Energy and mass are interchangeable (E=mc2). Since thoughts are energy signals, the energy transmitting a thought therefore has mass. The ions and molecules encoding the energetic signal have mass too.
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Is a computer smarter than a human brain?

“Computers can outperform humans on certain specialized tasks, such as playing [the game] go or chess, but no computer program today can match human general intelligence,” says Murray Shanahan, Professor of Cognitive Robotics for the Department of Computing at Imperial College in London.
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What is the speed of vision?

Some experts will tell you that the human eye can see between 30 and 60 frames per second.
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