Saltatory conduction and photons

[William Gaatjes]

I just had a weird idea.

To propagate information through nerve fibers, saltatory conduction is used.
A quote from wikipedia how it works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltatory_conduction

Because the cytoplasm of the axon is electrically conductive, and because the myelin inhibits charge leakage through the membrane, depolarization at one node of Ranvier is sufficient to elevate the voltage at a neighboring node to the threshold for action potential initiation. Thus in myelinated axons, action potentials do not propagate as waves, but recur at successive nodes and in effect "hop" along the axon, by which process they travel faster than they would otherwise. In summary, the charge will passively depolarize the adjacent node of Ranvier to threshold, triggering an action potential in this region and subsequently depolarizing the next node, and so on. This phenomenon was discovered by Ichiji Tasaki[1][2] and Andrew Huxley[3] and their colleagues.

The signal hops around from schwann cell to schwann cell. I had to think about how photons seem to hop from one electron to another electron when not being present in vacuum. It is for no reason. I just noticed the similarity. Transferring information over a large distance while the transfer itself is actually not continuous but has an interrupted burst nature.