Are Mobile Phones Dangerous? - to the user's health...

Mobile phones are now considered to be one of the most dangerous pollutants of the 21st Century and are more dangerous than smoking and asbestos. Electro pollution is an invisible toxin but it surrounds us. Scientists estimate that we are now daily exposed to 100 million times the EMF of our grandparents. They liken it to being in a room filled with cigarette smoke, but at least you can open the windows and doors for fresh air, it is not so easy for electro pollution! Research shows that these fields have a significant disruptive effect on the natural energy levels of our bodies. Our body’s energy as well as our cellular communication system is altered by the high frequencies of EMF. Man-made radiation magnifies our bodies ‘fight or flight’ responses compounding the effect on our adrenals and significantly reducing our ability to effectively cope.

After a two-minute mobile conversation, cognitive function (electrical activity) is disrupted in a human brain for up to an hour and the radiation penetrates deep into the brain. A twenty-minute conversation degrades cognitive functioning for up to three hours after a call. The risk of car accidents is four times greater when the driver was using a cell phone or after making a call and shows that heavy mobile users are involved in up twice as many fatal road accidents. Driving while talking on a mobile phone is similar to the hazard of drink driving plus the effects last for hours afterwards.

Continuous exposure to EMF drastically distorts our cellular communication pathways, resulting in abnormal cellular metabolism and ultimately disease. The cell function deteriorates, cell membranes harden, nutrients cannot get in and toxins cannot get out and this breakdown of healthy cellular process leads to biological chaos in our body.

Hundreds of studies have shown the harmful effects of EMF on the immune system, enzyme syntheses, nervous system, learning, moods and behavioural patterns. Some of the biological problems specifically include disruption to the blood brain barrier, genetic damage (birth defects) and increases in cancer. Research has been done showing the risks of behavioural problems in children whose mothers used mobile phones when pregnant and the children themselves who use mobile phones from young. Children with their more vulnerable brains and nervous systems are at the greatest risk.

Dr George Carlo, chief scientist of the world’s largest research effort into wireless safety and spent 6 years and $28 million, but became convinced that mobiles are VERY dangerous. He says that in 2006 - 50 000 brain and eye cancers were diagnosed caused directly by mobiles. By 2010 if we do not intervene half a million cases will be directly attributable to mobiles. The good news is that we are at the beginning of the epidemic curve so have the opportunity to intervene.

The largest emerging population of mobile phone users are teenagers and young adults. Dr Carlo’s early findings discovered that using a mobile for 500 minutes per month doubled or tripled the risk of eye and brain cancers. Teenagers have become the unwitting guinea pigs in a massive mobile phone experiment.

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QUOTE (kiwi @ Dec 5 2004, 10:36 AM)

I just can't help keeping attacking this calculation!
This calculation is completely wrong.
That's because watts = joule / second, so power equals work divided by time.
So you can't say if a mobile phone has a radiation of 3W in one hour, it will have a radiation of 6W in two hours. The power will not depend on time, since the work will increase with time, and as I already said, power = work / time. So power will be constant. That means if a cellphone has a radiation of 3W in one hour, it will also have a radiation of 3W in one year!
This may seem a bit confusing, but it's true. You can't measure watts in time. You must measure the total amount of energy delivered.
So with that, in ten years, the total radiation power will still be 3 watts, right?
Well, not even that. Let's do the calculation once more.

Let's say you talk using the mobile phone 1 hour a day (that is more than I use it in one year, by the way). The average power would then be:
3W * 1h / 24h = 3W / 24 = 0.125 W

...oops.

And by the way, at school I got 6 (the best grade possible) both in my oral exam in mathematics and in our last science test about energy.

QUOTE (Xeon @ Dec 23 2004, 04:58 PM)

This calculation is not quite correct. It should be:
1 hr/day x 365 days= 365 hours
1 Watt = 1 Joule/s
365 hoursx 60 mins/hour x 60 secs/min = 1,314,000 secs
1,314,000 secs/year x 3 Watts = 3,942,000 Joules / year

So every year the cellphone emits 3,942,000 Joules, however not all of this gets absorbed by you.

Compare this energy release with that of sunlight:
The Sun emits 1370 Watts per square meter.
1370 Watts/m^2 x 0.5 m^2 = 685 Watts
1 hour x 60 mins/hour x 60 secs/min = 3,600 secs
685 Joules/s x 3,600 secs/hour = 2,466,000 Joules / hour

Compared to the energy of the Sun, the power of the cellphone is negligible. But the cellphone's energy is in microwaves while the Sun's energy is mostly in visible light, so we still can't tell if cellphones are that dangerous. I don't think that cellphones are that dangerous, but if you overuse them too too much they might be dangerous.


This calculation is also not quite correct:

The error is that weight does not accumulate, it only counts when the cars are on the bridge. If the bridge can hold up to 40000 kg, then that means it can hold a maximum of 40 cars at one time. As long as no more than 40 cars are on the bridge at one time, the bridge will not break.

Hope you guys enjoy this physics explanation!

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I think that the problem is that the industry doesn't want us to know it, and the big companies hush up any reasearch perjudicial to them. What you expected they would say? That their produce is harmful? They will never say that! The tobacco industry has been telling us for decades that smoking is not dangerous, and yet it is.
I have seen my father investigating that issue for a many years, and I am absolutely convinced that there is a real danger.

Look, for instance, look that article: Temperature measuring of personal computer operator's hands with the help of infrared thermography

The use of computers (another thing that big companies don't want us to know) INCREASE the body's temperature, and it's proved that mobiles have similar effects.

That other article is about mobile phones effects. For this test, the device Aurospectrophotometer 2100(USA) was used. That device was developed for objective estimation of physiological and psychological state of human organism through high-frequency glow color gamma fixation. And you can see through the images that that state changes when we use a mobile phone.

 Once and for all, please...Open your eyes and your mind.

PS: I'm not telling that using a mobile phone will kill you  immediately. I'm not a paranoic. I know that there are LOTS of more dangerous things. But is a fact that that mobiles are not absolutely innocuous.

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