[LINK] Fwd: (-: phone poll

Ivan Trundle ivan at itrundle.com
Tue Jun 19 21:14:03 AEST 2007


Spoilsport! Killjoy!

I was so looking forward to hearing of the results of this  
experiment. There must be other novel ways of boiling an egg, though.

Start here:

http://newton.ex.ac.uk/teaching/CDHW/egg/

iT

On 19/06/2007, at 8:50 PM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Jan Whitaker
>> JLWhitaker Associates, Melbourne Victoria
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