The human electrical charge?

Question

the human brain runs on an electrical pulse of about 60Hz from your heart, equivilant to 12 watts. When the bodies DNA begins to decay the energy released is thought to increase as much as 1000% or 12,000 watts. At death this charge is released and despersed.

Thermodynamics Law 2 says the energy will be despersed outward until it is acted upon by another force. Physics says law 2 can be circumvented in some instances where energy does not completely desperse, but rather coagulates in the local area to regenerate again. I.E. Lightning. Lightning stirkes the energy desperses into the atmosphere, coagulates and becomes lightning again. Would you say this is correct?

Answer 1

no, i completly disagree with these numbers, and like TR said, you are confusing the laws of thermodynamics with newtons laws of motion.

Of course, I see your point. Sometime in the future, robots could take over our planet and we could be used as batteries. To keep us from rebelling, they would create a simulation of our world, and pump it directly into our heads. Maybe they are doing that now?

Do you think this is the Matrix?

Answer 2

Are you hypothesizing about how ghosts are created?  It's a clever bit of reverse engineering, but as TR (the resident PhD) says, it seems you need to polish it up a bit.

Answer 3

your calculations seems to be quite a scientifical,man. it maked me laughting from the deep gobs.

Answer 4

I'm no physicist so sourcing on your numbers would be great. There is no doubt there is a lot of energy coming and going in the human body. I am not sure where you want the discussion to go so some follow up would be great because I do find it interesting.

Answer 5

Codswallop!.

Answer 6

I am not too sure of the heart energizing the brain and all that nor of DNA 'decaying' there by giving out energy........

But the human aura is supposed to be an invisible energy field. Methods and mechanisms for viewing it are there for which search in the net.

Answer 7

I've got a headache from trying to read this. I guess God knew what He was doing when He didn't make me a scientist.

Answer 8

My learned friend, I hope this does not stray too far from your theory, but how does ball-lightning occur? In my native land we saw this rare occurance on two consecutive early evenings. Those closest to it said it caused the hair on their bodies to stand up and made them very faint. In each case it was rather hot and humid and no clouds were present?

Answer 9

it makes sense

Answer 10

Nuff, I don't agree with much here. The brain operates on frequencies of <30 Hz, unrelated to the heart beat. Why would the brain or the body suddenly release 12000 watts of energy? If this is released as heat energy, then the driving force would be a temperature gradient. But the temperature gradient would become smaller during the death process, not larger. For reference, the average power consumption of a human body is 100 W, of which 10-20% is consumed by the brain. Also, a 1000% increase from 12 watts would be be 132 watts ((1000/100) x 12 + 12), not 12,000 watts.

Your statement of the 2nd law of thermo is not correct. It seems to be jumbled up with Newton's 1st law of motion and the resulting amalgam isn't correct at all.  

Your further statement that the 2nd law can be "circumvented" doesn't make sense in any way that I am familiar with, and in fact, no violations or "circumventions" of the laws of thermodynamics have been observed to date (otherwise they would not be considered laws). It's not clear what you mean by "coagulating" in a local area.

Your description of lightning is unique, that is for sure, but it really doesn't seem to mesh with the known physical understanding of lightning. When lightning strikes, electrical gradient in the atmosphere is reduced until the electric gradient is below the dielectric breakdown limit of the air. Energy is transferred into the object the lightning struck and into the air. When the storm clouds generate sufficient electric potential again, lightning again may strike.

I'm sorry to be so negative, but there's not a lot here that was consistent with the known scientific laws of thermodynamics or our understanding of electricity.

EDIT: Nuff, astrophysicists say that the sun will become brighter (and releasing more heat) at the end of its life, but this does not represent any violation of thermodynamics. The heat output is provided by the increased energy output of the thermonuclear reactions occurring within the sun's core. I also don't follow the relevance of this to your original questions and it is not related in any way to biological decay.

EDIT: Nuff, whether something becomes cooler or hotter as it decays is determined partially by the heat transfer from the environment. If the environment is at a higher temperature than the decaying system, the decaying system will increase in temperature. If vice versa, then it may decrease in temperature. Of course it also depends on the heat output of the decay processes happening and where that heat is transferred to.

Answer 11

Where did you come up with the 12 watts.  Thats a lot more than I would have guessed.  Seeing as it takes sensitive equipment to measure the electric pulses the current would be off the chart at 12000 watts and would fry a heater element.  You must mean milliwatts right?  

Lightning is caused by a unbalance,  too much + or - charge in the sky or ground and lightning returns the balance to zero, more or less.  But yes I have to agree the power goes some where when you die.

Edit.  After checking around, the brain uses about 10% of the body's power, but the part that would be your soul/ spirit what ever you want to call it uses only about 1%.  When you spread that over the thousand of miles of nerve paths your talking about voltages on the  microvolt scale and pulses in millisecond range.  The equipment  to test this needs to be sensitive to about +/- 3 microvolts.  When your plug gets pulled by the big guy your only going to be around a minute or two before it will all just discharge in your brain wiring.  The rate your brain consumes fuel, any stop in the fuel supply would knock you out  almost as fast as lack of oxygen.

Answer 12

yep and i know what you getting at--