Re: Cell phone popcorn
Source: http://sci.tech−archive.net/Archive/sci.physics/2008−06/msg01575.html
From: bz <bz+sp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:24:46 +0000 (UTC)
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jimp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote in news:ll6di5−7vb.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
bz <bz+sp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Previously I said:
Ray Vickson <RGVickson@xxxxxxx> wrote in
news:b3bb574e−bf5d−406c−9b22−ce73c1fcf77f@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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The following was posted in the forum
'sci.math', and the poster
asked whether it was a fake. They then went
on to suggest we would,
ourselves, all turn to popcorn.
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=kAd0aWxs7kQ
R.G. Vickson
A few corrections are added below
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone_radiation_and_health
[quote]US analogue phone had a maximum transmit power
of 3.6 watts.
Other digital mobile technologies, such as CDMA and
TDMA, use lower
output power, typically below 1 watt.[unquote] The picture
Re: Cell phone popcorn
Re: Cell phone popcorn
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shows 4
cell phones.
Let us assume each puts out 1 watt at about 1 GHz (900 MHz
cell phone
band is very close to the X band radar and microwave oven
frequency
range.)
I was wrong. X band is 10 GHz, 3 cm, S band is 2.5 GHz, 10 cm.
Microwave ovens operate in the S band. Cell phones operate at 900 and
1900 MHz. None the less, water absorbs energy at these frequencies
rather well.
It still appears to me that the video might be 'legit'.
−bz−
There is also the minor problem that popcorn alone doesn't pop worth
a damn in a microwave oven.
You need the right kind of popcorn with the right moisture content.
Regular popcorn will not work because the moisture content is not enough.
That's why there is metal in the bag and a label that says "pop with
this side down"; it is the metal getting hot that actually pops
microwave popcorn.
That is incorrect. Show me metal in a popcorn bag. None of the bags I have
seen have any metal or anything special in the bag.
The reason the bag says 'this side down' is so that the bag stays in one
place as it is expande