Allergic to WiFi?
There is nothing that annoys me more than people who demand special attention and special care for the most retarded of reasons. There are those who cannot read black letters on a white background, yet they can read black characters on a yellow background. How does that work? Surely there’s a higher contrast between white and black than there is against black and yellow (I’ve since been informed that its not contrast but forms of colour blindness and side effects of dyslexia that causes this. No offence intended). The one that annoys me most is those who claim to be allergic to wifi or other radiowaves this condition is called Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (check out the link to read more about it (mostly biased)). Now i believe there are many flaws with this, before i go into the flaws i shall first explain what WiFi is.
Wifi is a radio signal, on the Electromagnetic scale it is on the the long wavelength, low frequency, low energy side of the spectrum. On the other side you get high energy, very short wavelength, high frequency gamma rays which can cause damage to cells and penetrate thick layers of lead. The visible light part is in the middle of this spectrum. Now i can understand if one “allergic” to gamma rays seeing as it has the potential to kill anything that’s exposed to it.
An EM wave is a photon that travels at the speed of light (which suggests the photon is a massless particle). All parts of the spectrum travel at the same speed in a vacuum, this is defined as the constant ‘c’ which is equal to approximately 300,000,000 m/s. Now scientists aren’t quite sure whether a photon is a wave or a particle (those who understand quantum physics don’t understand quantum physics) even though it moves as a wave. There are demonstrations which show that a photon is both a wave (Young’s Fringes) and a particle (photelectric effect). So to end all confusion for the time being scientists came up with Wave-particle duality which states that all matter and energy shows both wave-like and particle-like properties.
Now i shall move onto allergies. An allergy is an immune responce against an allergen. These allergens can be everyday things such as dust, pollen, wheat, nuts and many others. In order for you to have an immune response to something it has to able to attacked by the body’s white blood cells. Seeing as a radiowave isn’t a particle it cannot be attacked by T-cells and therefore cannot trigger an immune response. Technically those who claim to be allergic are not, they are actually “hypersensitive” but use the word allergy instead which is very misleading.
Those hypersensitives claim that EM radiation causes headaches and gives them rashes and all other stupid excuses. While I would normally symphasise with suffers, simply blaming it on a cause which has no direct effect on health is a stupid thing to do. Surely if they were affected by WiFi or mobile phones they would also be affected by visible light meaning they would have to live in the dark for the rest of their lives. Now you might argue that different frequencies and/or wavelenghs would have different effects but photons of visible light has more energy than photons of radiowaves.
It states on the electrosensitivity website: “Due to the lack of funding scientists receive for researching the phenomenon, there is no official definition and/or causation of ElectroSensitivity”. It even states that there is no official definition not because of no funding but because THERE IS NO CAUSE.
The causes of electrosensitivity are probably due to other unobvious reasons but I think its mostly psychological. Simply put it those electrosensitve are severely butthurt. Feel free to debate this issue with me.
- Cooper
And no, mobile phones cannot generate enough microwaves to cook an egg, nor is it the right wavelength needed to cook an egg. Nor can they cook pop corn.