Action Of Nerves Is Based On Sound Pulses, Anesthetics Research Shows

This sounds (pun intended ) like a stretch to me. The electric current in a nerve is move like a wave of depolarizations and not like a current in a wire so I would expect the way heat is generated would be different too. Shouldn't a sound pulse also generate heat since it is a presuure wave which is presumably doing work? In terms on an electrical current we're talking nano-amps here so heat generation would be veeery small and I would imagine very difficult to measure. No I think I'll need a lot more proof before I believe this.

Maybe it's the other way around: Anesthetics blocks the screams coming from the patient to the surgeon's and attendant operating room personnel's ears.

So, now we know why those noise cancelling headphones are so popular.

How do the physicists, who propose this route of action, explain the rapidity of the nerve pulses from, say, touching a hot stove, the nerves sending a signal to the brain stem, or spinal cord receptors, and the signal back to the finger muscles to cause one to pull the finger away from the stove? Certainly one would think that sound waves, travelling thru natural polymer of the nerve fiber, would not be fast enough for a lot of bodily actions. What about attenuation of the sound pulse? And how is the sound pulse converted into brain waves, as, say, from the eye retina to the optic nerve to the brain? What is the difference in sound propagation and transmittal rate between infants and adults? If the nerve impulse is actually via sound pulses, why did Mother Nature take so many thousands of generations, developing the sodium - potassium ion pumps, the membrane porosity, etc? Why haven't these features decayed, like our appendix, if they are no longer of use? I'm skeptical!

To add to your point, why would a defibrilator work if this article is correct?