Originally posted by gogogadgetgo
though i do agree that the speed of thought is instantanious, wouldn't the speed of thought be dependent on the person doing thinking? for example prof x and superman.lets say prof x is powerful enough to telepathically control superman. but since he operates at a speed of normal human beings, his thought is slower than superman's thoughts and before he can actually finish thinking of control superman, supes would have already finished thinking of punching prof x and would have already reacted to his thoughts of punching prof x and would have already punched prof x.
or lets say that wolverine and silver surfer were both traveling at the speed of light and are both about to run into a planet in a 10th of a second. i have no doubt that the surfer would be able to think fast enough to evade the planet. but would wolverine be able to? before wolverine would have finished thinking of thinking to turn left, right, up or down or evade, he'd have already collided with the planet.
just my two cents.
There's a difference between conception and processing. A human and Superman should both conceive an idea at the same speed, Supermans processing speed however is greater then the humans though.
As for the thread. Speed of thought is faster or as instant as it gets how else does one explain Lilandra and Xavier telepathicallycommunicating over millions of light years without any lag. Quantum physics?? Dimension hopping?
BTW That Bolt Rachel used looks like something similar to telepathic lightning which is a different application of telepathy. It's like hardened telepathy something similar to what Psylocke uses to throw psi-daggers and Emma's psychic lightning that blew up a building. I wouldn't say that particular attack is being generated at light-speed. Much like you can dodge Psylocke's knives you can dodge that blast. Quicksilver did the same thing Exodus's psi-blasts (Potrayed as pink globules) he then opted for a non-hardened radial attack which was potrayed differently artistically.