2nd June 2011, 7:40 AM
(This post was last modified: 2nd June 2011, 7:52 AM by Dark Jaguar.)
Look, microwaves ARE NOT IONIZING! There is NO mechanism that allows it to damage DNA! You have a greater chance of getting cancer from christmas lights, because they are more energetic.
This big news was revealed by EINSTEIN IN 1905! It doesn't matter WHAT the WHO says, if there is no physical mechanism, there is no chance it can cause cancer. And yes, microwaves are EVERYWHERE. There's a small level of background microwaves permeating every single micrometer of the universe. Just about everything emits it in small doses. Phones emit a higher level, but not nearly high enough to do anything.
It's a worldwide panic over something that is physically impossible. This isn't about medical uncertainty, this is fundamental physics we're talking about. Microwaves, in ANY dose, are incapable of causing cancer. Further, microwaves in the doses we are talking about from cell phones aren't capable of heating your brain to any significant degree. A cell phone is not a microwave oven. The energy levels are not nearly as much. ANY light can heat things by the way. Visible light can cook things in high enough doses (it's how an EZ Bake oven works). Cooking and cancer are two different and distinct phenomenon, with known causes for each.
Don't believe me though. Here's a biologist mocking this nonsense:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/...ng_you.php
And a physicist:
http://www.bobpark.org/
This has nothing to do with a "big business coverup". I'm not even CHECKING what cell phone companies are claiming. However, there is no support for this nonsense.
If you believe it can cause cancer, you believe you know more about light than modern physics. I can't make it more clear than that. Show your work.
Ugh, sorry ABF, but I have no sympathy for someone falling for this sort of sensationalist nonsense when they should know better.
This big news was revealed by EINSTEIN IN 1905! It doesn't matter WHAT the WHO says, if there is no physical mechanism, there is no chance it can cause cancer. And yes, microwaves are EVERYWHERE. There's a small level of background microwaves permeating every single micrometer of the universe. Just about everything emits it in small doses. Phones emit a higher level, but not nearly high enough to do anything.
It's a worldwide panic over something that is physically impossible. This isn't about medical uncertainty, this is fundamental physics we're talking about. Microwaves, in ANY dose, are incapable of causing cancer. Further, microwaves in the doses we are talking about from cell phones aren't capable of heating your brain to any significant degree. A cell phone is not a microwave oven. The energy levels are not nearly as much. ANY light can heat things by the way. Visible light can cook things in high enough doses (it's how an EZ Bake oven works). Cooking and cancer are two different and distinct phenomenon, with known causes for each.
Don't believe me though. Here's a biologist mocking this nonsense:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/...ng_you.php
And a physicist:
http://www.bobpark.org/
This has nothing to do with a "big business coverup". I'm not even CHECKING what cell phone companies are claiming. However, there is no support for this nonsense.
If you believe it can cause cancer, you believe you know more about light than modern physics. I can't make it more clear than that. Show your work.
Ugh, sorry ABF, but I have no sympathy for someone falling for this sort of sensationalist nonsense when they should know better.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)