when you hear the word cancer being thrown around in technology circles as
often as not the thing being discussed is a game console RGB setup or video
thumbnail or maybe even an overpriced Apple product but there's one real
discussion about how technology relates to actual cancer that just never seems
to go away does radiation from wireless devices like cell phones cause it to
answer let's unpack exactly what your cell phone gives off other than location
data to advertisers to send and receive calls and data cell phones use what's
called electromagnetic radiation the same kind of energy your car stereo
receives and turns into sound the same kind of energy microwaves used to heat
up your food that x-ray machines use to see your bones and even that the Sun or
a light bulb emits as plain old visible
light of course that word radiation might immediately make you think of a
cancer inducing nuclear accident and that seems pretty logical think about
how you have to wear that heavy protective lead jacket when you go in
for an x-ray or how ultraviolet rays from the Sun can burn you and give you
skin cancer well let's hold on a minute
although certain kinds of em radiation can indeed pose real health hazards it's
important to know this is restricted to higher energy varieties like UV light
X-rays and gamma rays though you won't have to worry about that uh last one
unless you're hanging out unshielded in outer space or standing too close to a
nuclear explosion so if that's the case you probably have far greater concerns
anyway the point is these kinds of radiation propagate at much higher
frequencies than radio waves or visible light meaning they're a lot more
energetic this is bad because they're actually energetic enough to damage your
DNA's chemical structure when they hit your body causing mutations that can
lead to cancer if they hit genes that regulate cell growth and even possibly
death you've actually seen this for yourself if you've ever gotten a sunburn
the pain and redness are actually part of your body's response to DNA damage
caused by too much UV light but the good news is that the kinds of radiation
given off by cell phones Wireless rotters and laptops is far too low
frequency and therefore low energy to mess with your DNA many Studies have
been done to examine this issue and no definitive link between Cancer and the
use of cell phones or other common Wireless gadgets has ever been found and
this actually makes sense the highest frequency waves currently used by cell
phone networks and Wi-Fi are around 1900
MHz to 60 GHz respectively by contrast
the lowest energy forms of UV light have a frequency of around 30 million GHz so
if ear cancer is the excuse you give Grand when you don't want to hear about
any more stories about back when things were better you better her hopes she
never watches this video though to be fair there's a good chance it won't
change her opinion anyways in spite of the numerous studies many folks are
still concerned that cell phones pose a real danger and some have even gone so
far as to relocate to areas that have fewer radio waves flying through the air
one such area is the United States national radio quiet Zone near the
virginiawest Virginia border where the government has restricted radio traffic
so it can carry out scientific and military operations more easily but in
reality there's really no reason your smartphone should have you literally
heading for the hills unless you're just really tired of getting calls from your
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