It's fake, viral video for a bluetooth headset company.
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Popcorn pops because of a minor steam explosion. Microwaves are specifically designed to excite water in food. The wavelengths used by cellphones simply don't achieve the same effect.
Microwave ovens use several hundreds of watts to get the desired cooking effect. A 10,000 watt microwave can cook a roast in 70 seconds. A cellphone is what, 5w? Yeah...
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Popcorn pops because of a minor steam explosion. Microwaves are specifically designed to excite water in food. The wavelengths used by cellphones simply don't achieve the same effect.
Microwave ovens use several hundreds of watts to get the desired cooking effect. A 10,000 watt microwave can cook a roast in 70 seconds. A cellphone is what, 5w? Yeah...
We could get about 2000 cell phones, align them perfectly to point at one point, and get the forks and knives out for some hot roast.
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It was a viral video made for a blutooth headset company.
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We could get about 2000 cell phones, align them perfectly to point at one point, and get the forks and knives out for some hot roast.
Again, they don't work in the microwave range of the electromagnetic specturm. Something bad could potentially come of it but it still wouldn't make any popcorn pop. I'm sure there are studies out there that examine the types of radiation produced by cell phones and subsequent studies that focus on adverse effects of those; however, because the power is still low, it would be very hard to scientifically prove it is actually dangerous.
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Ford's right. There're differences in frequency, wavelength and power between a cell phone and a microwave oven. Most importantly, power.
Microwave in general have frequency of about 2.4Ghz (similar to some cordless phones and wifi), hence wavelength = speed of light (m/s) / frequency (hz) = (3 x 10^8) / (2.4 x 10^9) = 12.5cm. It uses huge amount of power, from 600 Watts to over 1000 watts.
Cell phone on the other hand, commonly have a frequency between 900Mhz (GSM) to 2.2Ghz (UMTS), so wavelength is about (3 x 10^8)/(900 x 10^6) = 33 cm to (3 x10^8)/(2.2 x 10^9) = 13.6 cm, respectively. It only uses a few watts of power for transmitting the signal.
Cordless phone and wifi uses even lesser power for transmitting, since only good for a small area. Though, some cordless phones are operating in 5.8 Ghz, that's a wavelength of (3 x 10^8)/(5.8 x 10^9) = 5.2cm, which for such small wavelength is potentially harmful, if not because of low power.
Radio and TV operates with much larger wavelength, in measurements of meters, which are mostly harmless to human.
All of these are electromagnetic radiation, or non-ionizing radiation, which is not believe to be able to cause damage to DNA. The general rule is the higher power the power, the more dangerous. The smaller the wavelength, the more harm it can pose to living tissues. Microwave oven works by dielectric heating, in which polar molecules such as water are rotated by the "wave" and heat up materials by this kinetic energy.
Most cell phones nowadays have a specific absorption rate (SAR) rating required by the FCC. SAR is expressed in Watts / Kg of body weight. The highest allowed SAR limit is 1.6 watts / kg. My cell phone has a SAR rating of 1.23 watts / kg. Here is good list of SAR ratings of cell phones, http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6602_7-6258775-3.html
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