Proper Understanding of the Axon as a Transmission Line That Conducts the Neuron's Power to Muscles

Abstract: Recognizing a nature of the nerve impulses as electromagnetic waves that are driven by their electric potential and associated by growth of entropy, as electric charges, we define the axons as electric conductors that have electric diffusivity, entropy, and rate of growth of entropy as their properties. Such understanding leads to define the axons as transmission lines that conduct the neuron’s power to the muscles for triggering the release of calcium and initiating the muscle contraction. We measure in this study, by an Ammeter, the rate of growth of entropy through a sciatic nerve of a chicken. So, we find the rate of growth of entropy per unit area of neural fibers, as 0.4 Watt/Volt.mmm2 The used measurement setup of the nerve’s resistance represents an experimental proof of the function of the nerves as a transmission line. We found such understanding is more plausible than the traditional hypothesis of the ATP synthesis as a source of the triggering energy for muscle’s contraction which violates laws of thermodynamics. Understanding the flow of the nerve impulses or charges through the neural fibers as a diffusion process, we found such velocity mainly depends on the electric diffusivity of the neural conduits and the rate of growth of entropy through them.