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Cell phones emit non-ionizing radiation so this shouldn't be possible from a first-principles physics standpoint.

• hollerith 2y ago
  Just because it doesn't ionize atoms doesn't mean it can't have biological effects.
  • Qem 2y ago
    Some bacteria secrete small iron oxide crystals and are able to use those to sense magnetic fields[1]. Our guts are full of bacteria. Wonder if a nearby RF emitter can cause some of them to run amok. They surely tested the effects of cellphones in human tissues, but I doubt the same was done to bacterial cells. [1]. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetotactic_bacteria https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetotactic_bacteria
    • JumpCrisscross 2y ago
      > bacteria secrete small iron oxide crystals and are able to use those to sense magnetic fields There is preliminary evidence "that MTB in the gut are associated with grey matter volume in magnetite-rich brain regions related to orientation and navigation" [1]. > Wonder if a nearby RF emitter can cause some of them to run amok This was explored (and dismissed) in the early noughties [2], when cell-phones-cause-cancer was enjoying a halcyon. (I think it was radiation from CRTs before that. Probably non-organic vegetables today.) [1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00343-021-0495-1 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00343-021-0495-1 [2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15376948/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15376948/
• JPLeRouzic 2y ago
  All electromagnetic radiation that encounters some conductive material induces (tiny) currents. Cells are full of conductive materials. "Low-frequency electric fields influence the human body just as they influence any other material made up of charged particles" https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/radiation-electromagnetic-fields https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/rad...