Pic basically unrelated, but required to post so maybe I’m in the wrong place. If there’s a better place for this lmk. Fediverse is hard to suss for locations.
Basically what I want to know is what would happen if you strapped your head into something that caused medium-intensity vibration, and just left it there indefinitely (assuming you were, for the sake of this question, functionally immortal as far as age and nutrition, but not physical damage)
I’m not talking industrial vibration, more like something we would consider safe, like an intimate toy intensity (but not a hitachi magic wand - normal people intensity), or a vibrating “weight loss plate”, or even maybe like the roughness from a long drive, assuming your head is strapped on to get the full force of it rather than your neck muscles nihilism.
I know there’s a fluid cushion around the brain that prevents impact damage to an extent, but vibration isn’t really the same thing, so would your cells just sort of rupture over time and bleed out or is there enough padding to absorb all of it with no consequence?
Good question for research, here is what I think
Nothing really.
The brain is surrounded by enough fluid to prevent things like normal motion from messing with it. Enough motion to do something will likely result in brain damage. Normal motion mimicking will likely result in your brain functioning as normal.
That was sort of my thought too, but nowhere in nature would our brains be exposed to vibration over long periods of time, and I know that concussions that don’t meet the clinical definition lead to brain damage.
I couldn’t really find much on the impacts on the brain of vibration specifically, but I have seen experiments where vibration was added to a semi-solid, and it liquified because the weak “cell wall” analogues dissolved. I know that’s a totally different mechanism, but it got me curious :)