<font color=Red>X + M = 2C Wave functions combined.
Cool surfing analogy isn't it? You are quite right that there is a BIG difference between the waves. But it isn't that huge and remember that we are looking for only tiny differences, not everyone who uses a cellphone getting a brain tumour.
Anyway, the energy of the surfer's wave is the square of its height. So, if the M waves in the ocean from the cellphone are for example 10cm high, then to get to the MINIMUM wave size required for bonds to start breaking, the big swell, the X waves, would need to be 3 metres high [since Moulder said that cellphone photons are less than 0.1% of the energy needed to break a bond and a 3m wave has 1000x the energy of a 10cm wave].
As you know, a 10cm wave is not very scary for a surfer. But if it combines with a 3m wave, things are getting more serious. In fact, a 3m wave by itself, without the 10cm bit on top would be scary enough [for me anyway].
Now, the bond-breaking part.
Suppose we have a cotton thread anchored to the ocean floor with a ping-pong ball floating at the end. The thread has just enough slack in it so the 3m waves can pass by without snapping the thread. [This is in deep ocean, so we aren't dealing with surf here]. Life is cruisy nice. Same as it is if there is no swell and the little 10cm high cellphone waves are bobbing the ping-pong ball up and down and passing it the little bit of energy the little wave has.
If big-Momma 4m waves come through, it's curtains!! Bond breaks everywhere. Same as when you get millions of eV smashing some innnocent DNA molecule compliments of some gamma rays.
But there are a certain number of 2.9m waves coming through which do NOT by themselves have the energy to lift the ping pong balls to the required 3m height to break the thread. BUT when they get the bit of extra kick from the superposition of the 10cm wave, they push the ping-pong ball just high enough to break the thread.
Sure, there are not very many of those waves. But we are looking for very small numbers anyway. Those waves bigger than 3m will bust the thread with help from nothing. Those less than 2.9m won't bust the thread even with some 10cm cellphone help. So it's a narrow band of wavelength which is involved.
Though maybe there is a range of bond strengths and some break much easier than others, in which case the range of waves which can be enhanced just enough by the 10c bonus wave landing simultaneously would be much greater. You probably know how wide the range of bond strengths are [breaks of which can lead to C].
BUT WAIT...there's more.
If a person has a sauna, then they would get a slightly elevated brain temperature so there would be a minuscule extra stress on bonds from that [okay, that might be very, very trivial, but every bit helps].
Also a rush of blood to the head with Nobel Prize-winning bright ideas would tend to cause bond breakages.
Worse than either of those trivial effects or the trivial effect of the 10cm wave, would be the presence of high concentrations of carcinogenic chemicals such as benzene, 1 nitro pyrene, nitrosamines, PAH and PCA from flame-grilled meat etc, just hanging around waiting to be kicked into a broken bond when a high enough photon is absorbed. Hence, smokers should see the funny side of them complaining about cellphone radiation. Or worrying about cellphones while flying in a 747 without a nice, iron beanie. Maybe a French beret or Stetson [or even that classy leather hat you have] with a very thin lining of lead
would be the ticket [you'd have to refrain from chewing the rim of your hat].
Anyway, once the bonds are busted, the long road to ruin and C begins and if these mutants aren't repaired, apoptosied, or otherwise sorted out, some of them will be the 2C.
Since mutations are definitely caused by background radiation, we know that we already have a problem just with the background, without any additional 10cm boosts. We know that mutations happen in our everyday life because we are here, compliments of eons of such mutations - we being the perfect mutations; the other petazillions having been unselectable mutations which have long since entered the oil and coal reserves or are currently being recycled in the ecosphere.
It's quite flattering to think of oneself as the perfect mutation. Well, at least a selectable mutant if not totally perfect.
Anyway, apart from our descendants being rendered unselectable by mutations or made especially selectable by a very lucky break [double=bonded preferably] we also get the downside of our immediate demise if the mutation is the 2C type. So we can see that there is trouble in those 3m waves coming through, bobbing our ping-pong balls and breaking the thread of life which keeps us on this happy planet. We do NOT want any additional breaks, unless we want to speed up the evolutionary process or our own demise. Being selfish, I'm happy for the evolutionary process to stop right here and we take over by genetic engineering without the randomness [and all the tragedy that goes with it]. Weirdly, there are some [mainly religious cranks] who don't want genetic engineering. They are happy with random mutations, but they don't want intelligent mutations. Wacky!
Okay, you've explained before how our bodies cope with a certain level of repair without calamitous mutation and 2C formation. Hence the care and attention to dosimetry of individual organs. But since the background radiation of itself is sufficient to drive evolution and a certain rate of cancer, it's stretching a point to claim that extra breakages over and above the background radiation breakages don't cause a problem.
The extra problem would be a function [maybe a square or linear or one of Gregg Powers' asymptotic increases] of how many more ionizing waves come through. The extra few due to the 10cm waves from cellphones adding to otherwise non-ionizing wave functions would be very tiny, but still a real effect.
Okay, half-time.
I personally think that's enough for the Nobel Prize, but I'll do a bit more...
[to be continued]
Mqurice
PS: I swapped to ping-pong balls rather than having little bells on buoys because the idea of an anchor-thread breaking is more akin to double=bond breakage than is a bell ringing. Also, surfers would get annoyed with a lot of bells ringing. When it comes to experiment, it will be easy to count how many ping-pong balls are still there, anchor thread intact, but counting bell-ringing en masse would be tricky. |
