I hoped earnestly that I could get it back. But it was too late. A few days later he received a letter from his father. An insurance agent was teaching his wife to drive when the brakes suddenly failed on a steep, downhill grade. Your nervous system carries many different kinds of information and there are different kinds of nerve cells to carry these messages.
Some messages zip around very quickly, while others take their time.
But other messages, like some kinds of pain signals, travel much more slowly. If you stub your toe, you feel the pressure right away because touch signals travel at 250 feet per second. But you won't feel the pain for another two or three seconds, because pain signals generally travel at only two feet per second. Cool Fact of the Day lists.