I received an email this morning from a friend who is a dentist. You can see a report on this link. The experiment was performed by two Russians who decided to see if they could cook an egg using their cell phones. They conducted the experiment in nearly the same manner I did with the phones on either side of live blood on the microscope stage:
Conclusion 1: Cooking eggs with mobile phones is possible but very expensive ($4.55 or 123 Rubles)
Conclusion 2: All this talk of danger is exaggerated; even if your brain gets cooked, it would take a couple hours of talking on a cell phone.
Conclusion 3: We don't recommend carrying cell phone in your pants.
I included the conclusions because a little humor won't hurt any of us!
While I am on the subject, I might mention another experiment that was performed with darkfield microscopy. There was someone helping me in Germany, a young man with a lot of warmth and vitality but fairly awful blood, a real candidate for serious trouble. More recently, a friend landed in the hospital with clots in his lungs. There were common denominators in their blood so we ran an experiment with smoking. He refrained from cigarettes for about half a day. We had a look, then he went for a walk and smoked. We looked again. The blood had turned to what some people call "sludge." Apparently, the tar is more than a oil slick but is very damaging to other tissues, which, of course, we know or think we know, but now there was the visual evidence.
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