[extropy-chat] Scientists say nerves use sound, not electricity

[The Avantguardian]

--- Emlyn <emlynoregan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Scientists say nerves use sound, not electricity
>
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/03/09/science-nervessound-20070309.html#skip300x250
> 
> ???

I just read the primary article here:

http://www.biophysj.org/cgi/rapidpdf/biophysj.106.099754v1

It is an intriguing hypothesis that explains a
hitherto unexplainable empirical law called the
Meyer-Overton rule which shows an inverse mathematical
relationship between the solubility of all known
general and local anaesthetics in lipids and their
potency. Anaesthethics dissolved in the neural
membranes lower the freezing point of the membrane and
reduce it's ability to conduct solitons of sound
leading to unconsciousness. 

Apparently mind really is the image of OM, the
universal sound of creation.






Stuart LaForge
alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu

"Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which thou seest, and out of their substance will make other things, and again other things from the substance of them, in order that the world may be ever new." -Marcus Aurelius, Philosopher and Emperor of Rome.


 
____________________________________________________________________________________
Finding fabulous fares is fun.  
Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains.
http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097