The physicist Bob Parks in his weekly enewsletter had the following item in last week's issue:
|2. WIRELESS: WHERE SHOULD I PUT MY CELL PHONE, DOCTOR? |The hot new place for young women to tuck their cell phones is inside their |bra. They set the ring on "vibrate," creating an erogenous tingle when a |call comes in. Devra Davis, author of "Disconnect," a book about the |alleged dangers of cell-phone radiation, worries that the women are being |set up for breast cancer. Microwave radiation, Davis says, "seeps directly |into the soft fatty tissue of the breast." What does it do there? As |Albert Einstein explained in 1905, the photon energy is given by the |frequency times Planck's constant. That's plenty of energy to excite |molecular vibrations, which heats tissue, but it's only one millionth of |the ionization threshold energy, so radiation is not a cancer threat. |Meanwhile in Washington, DC, a Wireless Safety Summit in a couple of weeks |will focus on legislation to block smart meters, which is a totally dumb |idea. So, this raises the obvious question: How long have women been keeping cell phones (with vibrate mode on) in their bras? Things that make one go "Hmmmmmmm....". ;-) -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] P.S. Bob Parks is not real enthusiastic about the neutrino "faster than light" business, too. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=12977 or send a blank email to leave-12977-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
