How Much Radiation Does Your Phone Emit?

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/how-much-radiation-does-your-phone-emit/

by markbao • 18 years ago

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pkrumins• 18 years ago

No radiation. EM waves are not radiation.

imp• 18 years ago

jcl• 18 years ago

Wikipedia disagrees. Its "electromagnetic wave" article redirects here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_radiation

Cellphones would be useless if they didn't radiate, much like lights, TVs, ovens, etc.

ozanonay2• 18 years ago

Google gives me around 2 million hits for "electromagnetic radiation".

bugmenot• 18 years 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.

hugh• 18 years ago

Incorrect.

(Yes, I'm a physicist.)

pmjordan• 18 years ago

Enough to pop corn?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAd0aWxs7kQ

Nope.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2100...

ovi256• 18 years 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.

How Much Radiation Does Your Phone Emit?

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