On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:33:55 -0700, Jim Lux
wrote:

Exactly. If this proves anything, it proves that those who are not
worried about stepping out into the sun, but fear exposure to their
cell phone, they will always be worried about their cell phones.

Actually, it's not quite *that* simple..

The simple analysis is just for thermal effects. One has to also ask
whether there are significant "athermal" effects. These can come from
several potential sources. First, one can consider whether the
radiation itself can do anything.. well, the photon energy at microwave
frequencies is so low that it's orders of magnitude below any known
chemical reaction's activation energy.

Or, one can consider E or H field effects. If the E field is high
enough, it can depolarize a neural membrane, for instance, and cause
false neural impulses. That would be an acute effect.

One also needs to consider peak vs average effects. One could probably
power a defibrillator from a cellphone battery quite nicely, and that
can dump a few hundred joules at just the right time to cause some
serious problems. Again, though, that's an acute, not exposure/chronic
effect.

Hi Jim,

It IS that simple. The athermal effects you describe such as "photon
energy" is a temperature so low that for all practical purposes could
be called absolute zero. No one has suggested frost-bite induction as
a source of CNS trauma. Besides, thermal effects (or athermal) are
related to phononic energy. Phonon-Photon interaction is the
principle you are implying, and besides myself, I doubt anyone could
follow that discussion. Aside from yourself, no one here showed any
capacity to either calculate a temperature rise, or test it at the
bench. This leaves little room for dialog on the matter - hence the
plunge into shamanism.

As for the E field, a 9 volt battery clipped between the ears hardly
suffices, and electroshock therapy goes a further and most obvious
distance. The arguments put forward by those who cry caution beg for
dramatic and catastrophic effects that are unnoticed - a contradiction
on the face of it: an anticonvulsant taser wound without a mark. The
lack of substantive evidence is begged off as being undetectable (the
same contradiction) or too mysterious to have been thought of (which
is a vanity statement). My allusion to Phonons would certainly fall
into this last category, but it is an old field of established study
that is rare, not unknown.

I've calibrated defibrillators and worked with peak energy delivery
systems from millijoules to kilojoules. A cell phone does not qualify
- not even acute and chronic is several orders of magnitude below
that. Every thing about the design conspires against it.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC