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A neurological question?
I know that whenever you touch something hot or bang yourself somewhere, a pulse signal is sent as a message to the brain that you are in pain, so that you'll pull away your hand or you'll shout "Owch!" However, is it so that the nearer to the brain you hit yourself, you'll get a pain signal quicker and the pain will be more effective?
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- poornakumar bLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Probably, yes. But the difference would be too close I believe. Even the waves travelling wouldn't be the simple single frequency sinusoidal waves of fixed speed. It might be that the spectrum of the pain wave is anything but simple and with significant variation in the speed of each frequency that a wide 'dispersion' is possible.
We started off with waves of the Physics of the Pysical world. But the same can be translated as it is into 'neurological' phenomena, is debatable. I am not knowledgeable about this aspect, except to say that there is a difference.
