Jed, if you put enough steel, lead, earth or concrete between you and ionizing radiation you can be protected. I think Joseph Papp died at age 56...not exactly old age...
On Wednesday, January 2, 2013, Jed Rothwell wrote: > ChemE Stewart <[email protected] <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', > '[email protected]');>> wrote: > > >> and possibly why Richard Feynman died of Abdominal Cancer. >> > > Are you suggesting Feynman got cancer because he was exposed to the Papp > device? I know that he was exposed to it, but only for a short time before > it exploded. If that was long enough to give him cancer then surely Papp > himself must have been exposed to massive amounts of radiation over many > years. He would have died after a few months I suppose. > > (Incidentally, Mallove and others think that Feynman caused the explosion, > by unplugging the device.) > > - Jed > >
