Quote Originally Posted by Fish View Post
If this is a valid means of measuring the speed of thought, it leads to a strange contradiction.

Picture the nucleus of an atom. Now picture an electron in the first, inner-most shell of that atom.

Your thoughts have moved an infinitesimally small distance, in the same span of time that it took for your thoughts to reach the sun. Thus the travel time is constant, and the speed varies inversely with distance. Therefore, thoughts can be both infinitely fast and infinitely slow, depending on what you're thinking about.
That's not really a contradiction. Look at it this way: a cheetah can run at 50 to 70 miles per hour. But the meat the cheetah wants to eat is only ten feet away from it.

Does that mean the cheetah is out of luck as it cannot possibly move slowly enough to reach that meat? Or does the fact that they could move at 50 to 70 miles per hour not imply that they cannot move slower?