What does our brain share with a fried sausage? A cell membrane created from minute fat droplets that swim in salt water.The structures are similar and radiation is said to have a similar effect on them.
Professor Markus Antonietti from Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces Colloid in Potsdam has experimented with such artificial membranes.To create such membranes, the physicist formed layers of fat particles of different sizes and irradiated them with microwaves.In doing so,he kept varying the frequency and intensity of the microwaves.The result of the research have been published in a scientific journal. One of the finding stated in the journal is that ion channels in the membranes act as electrical dipoles and hold a lot of energy in the smallest of spaces.Although the scientific work does not directly deal with mobile radios,these facts can be applied to day to day life.
Danger of radiation,mobile phone heat the brain.Even the cell in our brain communicate with each other through such ion channels; so while conversing on a mobile phone,these cell might have major role to play in heating the small areas of the brain stronger than percieved earlier. The current theshold values restrict the " Specific Absorption Rate" ( SAR) to 2 watt per kg for mobile phones. However,Antonetti's work suggests that the cell walls can reach drastically high temperatures.For the time being,the physicist is not willing to comment further on his findings.There also needs to be further research done to discover the effect of radio waves on cell membranes by using real,biological tissue.Until then,once can only speculate with that fried sausage in the microwaves
Info: sciencedirect.com
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