A visual and sonic representation of nerve conduction velocity. Watch a nerve impulse, visualized as a pulse of light, degrade and slow. Hear its corresponding sound flicker, distort, and fade into silence.
The Phenomenon of Deceleration
As myelination breaks down, the saltatory conduction that once propelled signals at speeds in excess of 50 meters per second begins to stutter. The pristine, synchronized arrival of action potentials widens into temporal dispersion.
“A single spike becomes an indistinct murmur; the sharp snap of electrical coherence is absorbed into thermal noise.”
The observer monitors this progression not with sorrow, but with precision calipers, calculating latencies to the tenth of a millisecond.