POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Wierd Science #1 : Re: Wierd Science #1 Server Time
11 Oct 2024 01:22:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Wierd Science #1  
From: Warp
Date: 13 Jan 2008 07:18:54
Message: <478a01ae@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >   Not to talk about pacemakers or the unknown long-term effects that can
> > have on human health.

> 1. You're standing in a 40 microtesla magnetic field right now.

  Can you charge a laptop with a 40 mecrotesla magnetic field?

> 2. You're surrounded by devices that produce far stronger magnetic fields.

  But far stronger than the suggested form of wireless energy transmission?

> 3. Medical imaging scanners often generate fields of up to 3 T, yet show 
> no known negative effects on human health.

  They do so for relatively short periods of time, and humans are exposed
to them once of twice. They are not generated for hours every single day
with the same person present at all times.

> 4. According to known physics, most physical materials are very weakly 
> affected my magnets.

  Yet a strong enough magnetic field can kill a human. (Sure, it has to
be staggeringly strong, but it's possible.)

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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