[LINK] Fwd: (-: phone poll

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

Sorry, Jan, but a number of website claim it's a hoax. 
http://www.joewein.net/hoax/hoax-cook-egg-with-cellphone.htm

A cell phone battery doesn't actually carry enough charge to heat an egg to the required temperature. 

Skip the following figures if you don't care for physics:
A fairly average 3.6V mobile phone battery stores 730 mAh, which is 2,6 Wh (Watt hours) of electric energy. This is 1.7 kcal or enough to warm a 60g egg by 28 degrees Celsius (50 Fahrenheit). In other words, if all the energy used by the cell phone was converted into microwave energy (a lot of the electricity warms the silicon in the electronics and the display and thus just warms the handset) and all that energy were to radiate *only* at the egg and in no other direction, the egg would barely reach body temperature before the battery goes dead. In practice only a fraction of the energy would turn into microwave radiation that warms the egg. The numbers simply don't add up. Given the known specification of mobile phone batteries and the laws of physics it's doubtful if even dozens of mobile phones piled around it were capable of boiling an egg. 

and 
http://www.mmfai.org/public/docs/eng/MMF_EggCookingHoax_Viewpoint.pdf

-- 
Regards
brd

Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Sydney Australia
brd at iimetro.com.au

 On Tue Jun 19 16:16 , Jan Whitaker <jwhit at melbpc.org.au> sent:

>any linkers game to try it?
>
>>We need:
>>One egg and 2 mobile phones.
>>65 minutes to call from one phone to the other.
>>
>>Put egg in eggcup and place between the two phones.
>>Initiate the call between the mobiles to last for 65 min's approximately.
>>Nothing will happen on the first 15 minutes...
>>After 25 minutes the egg starts warming up, after 45 mins;
>>The egg is already hot; and after 65 min's the egg is cooked
>>
>>If the microwave radiation emitted by the mobiles is capable to modify
>>the proteins in the egg. Imagine what it can do with the proteins in our
>>brains when we talk through the mobiles.
>
>
>
>
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