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> Hopefully the inverse square law is on my side. It is, but more importantly, quantum mechanics is on your side. It doesn’t matter how many photons your phone
by seandougall 8y ago
> Hopefully the inverse square law is on my side.
It is, but more importantly, quantum mechanics is on your side. It doesn’t matter how many photons your phone bombards you with, because it transmits and receives at non-ionizing frequencies. Each photon carries too little energy to excite an electron, which means it can’t cause cancer through the same mechanism that, say, x-rays can.
Maybe there is some other mechanism and I just haven’t seen it, being a layperson. But if so, the effect would seem to be too weak to measure reproducibly, and I figure there are much more real, pressing dangers to worry about (e.g. cell phone-related car crashes).