Why is it when you stub your toe (or something similar), your body takes a moment to realise that it is in pain?
In: Biology
Pain signals travel surprisingly slowly through your body. It’s tempting to think that since pain signals work using something akin to electricity (albeit chemical), they should move at the speed of light or thereabouts, but that’s not how it works.
For example, in the time that your nerves can transmit a pain signal the length of two football fields (around 240 meters), a Saturn V rocket can shoot up to an altitude of 68 km.
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