Popping corn with cell phones?

We are bathing (basking) in microwaves.

There are towers/transmitters all around us (I have at least five in a four mile radius that I know of and not to mention the tv transmitters). You could have neighbours/businesses/schools who have wireless phone/computer networks as well.

So if we give ours up does it really make much of a difference when everyone else has them?

Originally posted by battlestargalactica
It don't work. The ppl on here that claim it does, well..they're most likely just propagating a fun hoax (in their opinion).

What probably works though is this: Time 4 kernels in the mic to see how long till poppage, then take 4 new kernels and nuke them just under that pop time, place these on a table and expose it to cellphone EMF. This probably will pop the kernels and give a really neat effect of cellphones doing all the popping work!

I tried the popcorn from a microwave pack with grease around the kernels. No joy.

I too had thought about preheating the corn. This may be a key.

Just tried it with preheated corn and 2 phones. No joy.

Also used regular popcorn, preheated to 1 minute and 15 seconds, kernels were hot to touch, no joy.

I had such hopes this would be a neat truism. Looks just like a trick and not a fact.

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Good Morning America tied it without results:

www.seriouseats.com...

As the man said, HOAX. His physics and math, while not precise, are right on the money.

Originally posted by esecallum
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Everyone is forgetting resonance.

resonance is the key.


i am very scared of using cell phones in case a small part of my brain pops creating a tumour.

in any case most conversations on cell phone are very banal and stupid anyway.

how much did your drink?
how much vomit did you spew?

how many did you screw.

i was wearing a thong.

my shoes cost $500.

my boyfriend went with my best friend.

i did a dump in my panties.

my snot was cleaned by mummys gay lover.

The number of tumours has increased in line with cell phone usage but bogus studies by cell phone makers have exonerated cell phones.The groups weretold in advance not to find any connection with cell phones.

all studies funded by a vested interest are invalid as they always promote their interest.

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If a small part of your brain "pops" it wouldn't create a tumor. It would cause something like a brain aneurysm, or stroke, and you'd die instantly. Note that you don't see millions of people falling down dead after a few minutes on the phone.

Tumors imply cancer, and would have to be caused by a completely different process than how popcorn is popped. There's no plausible mechanism by which microwaves can cause cancer. It takes ultraviolet or better to do that.

I think these videos are a hoax made to prey on the fears of people who don't know a lot about microwaves, to whom such cellphone related myths seem plausible.

Also: it seems like everybody and their mother on ATS has weird ideas about resonance. It's not magic, you know. There's equations for it. In any physical system, resonance doesn't change the amount of energy it takes to do something. It just changes the amplitude at the anti nodes of waves. In the case of microwaves, perfect resonance between two identical sources gives an amplitude of twice the first source's maximum amplitude at the antinodes. In this case, that would mean that if the kernel was placed at the antinode of the standing waves of two phones in perfect resonance, it would heat up twice as fast.

On the other end, with two standing waves in perfect resonance, things at the nodes don't heat up at all. With kitchen microwaves, this is an undesirable outcome, which is why they have metal fans to scatter the microwaves from the magnetron around the inside of the microwave oven. With two standing waves not in perfect resonance, they have a beat frequency of the larger frequency minus the smaller, which would mean that there would be even heating, but rarely would the combined waves reach the full amplitude of the two sources put together.

Basically, resonance means that the effectiveness of two standing waves can be concentrated at points to *AT MAX* twice the maximum of one standing wave. So four cellphones in perfect resonance are four times as powerful as one cellphone. And no more. Since one cell phone doesn't heat up diddly squat, four won't either.

In a physical system, where you're vibrating some object at it's resonant frequency, all it means is that the energy you're putting in via your oscillating source will constructively interfere with the oscillations of the thing you're shaking, so the effect is cumulative. You don't get more energy out of the process than is put in, it's just an effective way of shaking something.

Don't believe me, look up some differential equations and linear analysis. This is the bread and butter of a large part of mechanical engineering and a bigger part of electrical engineering. Cell phones wouldn't even *WORK* if we didn't have this stuff down to a T. Cars wouldn't last a year if we didn't have a perfect understanding of mechanical resonance.

Originally posted by Anonymous ATS

They're ARGUABLY from different countries. They ARE all from the same youtube user...which is suspicious. Try it yourself. If if works, let us know.

I just tried. It worked!

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The globalist nwo are into eugenics and want us sick to exhaust our personal wealth and then to die young. So keep up the good work!

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