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How Much Radiation Does Your Phone Emit?

• pkrumins 18y ago
  No radiation. EM waves are not radiation.
  • imp 18y ago
    ?
  • jcl 18y ago
    Wikipedia disagrees. Its "electromagnetic wave" article redirects here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_radiation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_radiation Cellphones would be useless if they didn't radiate, much like lights, TVs, ovens, etc.
  • ozanonay 18y ago
    Google gives me around 2 million hits for "electromagnetic radiation".
    • bugmenot 18y ago
      Google gives me around 275,000 hits for 'Bill Gates is Satan' and 130,000 hits for 'Every time you masterbate, a kitten dies' but I can't vouch for the latter.
      • justindz 18y ago
        That's especially shocking given that you spelled masturbate wrong ;-)
      • ozanonay 18y ago
        Hey I wasn't using google to establish the truth-value of a proposition. I was just trying to show that there's wide-scale usage of 'radiation' to describe what an electromagnetic wave is.
  • hugh 18y ago
    Incorrect. (Yes, I'm a physicist.)
• pmjordan 18y ago
  Enough to pop corn? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAd0aWxs7kQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAd0aWxs7kQ Nope. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2100340/Mobile-phone-popcorn-'hoax'-hits-YouTube.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2100...
  • ovi256 18y ago
    Basic thermodynamics (Joules needed to pop a corn kernel) says no. Just think about popping popcorn with a microwave: at least 600W do it in a few dozen seconds at least. How the hell could 8 Watts (4 phones * 2W per phone PEAK power per the GSM standard) do it in a few seconds? Answer: it did not, the vids are faked. The phones simply do not have enough power even to heat the seeds, lest to pop them.