Phone radiation cause cancer?

[TopDollar]

On ‎7‎/‎24‎/‎2016 at 7:50 AM, huilun02 said:

That's why we should use banana phones

Its natural and won't irradiate us at all

Oh wait...

This post deserves more credit lol. The Potassium-40 found in bananas is a good beta particle emitter.

 

On ‎7‎/‎24‎/‎2016 at 9:11 AM, Sauron said:

to be fair spending more than a few hours in Chernobyl IS dangerous. Consider that your phone is with you all day every day for years. Still, I doubt this is actually a thing.

Ehh, not really. You would probably get exposed to more radiation on the flights (where you are exposed to ~30 times the amount of radiation compared to background at sea level) to Ukraine than you would in any of the areas they let tourists. Sure there are areas which are high rad areas (exposure >= 0.1 REM per hour or 1mSv per hour), but even that isn't that much in the great scheme of things.

 

20 hours ago, RedSpade said:

They don't, only radiation above UV ionizes, anything below can at most heat and only in large doses (obviously the closer it is to UV the lower the required dose)

Radiation caused by the decay of certain elements is also ionizing.

[Shepanator]

Stupid study.

 

They blasted the rats for 9 hours a day at over 100x the intensity of radiation that your phone emits.

They didn't even enclose how many rats took part in the study, and considering in their findings they state that for some reason the rats exposed to the radiation actually lived longer on average than the control group I would guess it wasn't enough.

[RedSpade]

21 hours ago, TopDollar said:

Radiation caused by the decay of certain elements is also ionizing.

They're gamma rays.

5 hours ago, Shepanator said:

Stupid study.

 

They blasted the rats for 9 hours a day at over 100x the intensity of radiation that your phone emits.

They didn't even enclose how many rats took part in the study, and considering in their findings they state that for some reason the rats exposed to the radiation actually lived longer on average than the control group I would guess it wasn't enough.

Iirc it was 90 rats per group and it ended up being ~550 all together.

 

Their conclusion was very odd as it focused on the increase in cancer primarily without much mention on the rats living longer and the the fact that as the control group aged it was more likely to develop the cancer.

[TopDollar]

6 minutes ago, RedSpade said:

They're gamma rays.

Gamma rays are only one type of ionizing radiation. It is massless and has the most penetrating power since it's an electromagnetic wave. Other types include alpha particles (equivalent to helium atoms), beta particles (electrons), and neutrons. Neutrons are particularly interesting as they don't have that much energy on their own; however they have a tendency to explode into their sub atomic particles which have a boat load of energy and penetrating power.