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Mobile Phones: hospital equipment disruption
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Top Gear did an experiment on the vapour side of this. The doused a caravan with petrol, (inside and out) then placed ten or twelve mobiles inside.Presenters and crew then all the mobiles and let them ring. Nothing happened. Same caravan then had a bare wire placed in it . At the same time a man, in a shell suit was made to dance in a plastic bucket. After a couple of minutes, the other end of the bare cable was offered to the dancer. When he touched the cable, the static charge he had produced, blew up said caravan.
What does that tell you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i have heard from 2 friends (one is a heart specialist the other a brain surgeon) that there is only one piece of equipment that they can affect and although it isnt life saving it can give false readings and errors if a phone is in operation nearby.
The only other thing they said is that they advise switching it off to stop nurses and doctors being annoyed by them
The physics is proven and quite simple: essentially, the mobile phone can act as an inductor. So it could cause explosions at petrol stations. But, how many people turn off their phones when filling up their car, and how many explosions do you hear about?
The exploding petrol station theory relies on the power from the battery rather than the radio waves induction etc etc.
The theory goes thus: phone on and in use, much current flowing from batery then whoops! the battery drops off causing that fatal spark and Boom! no more filling station.
If the phone were switced off then no current could flow and the same loose battery drops off with no sparks and safely drops to the ground with no danger. However the petrol fumes have made you so high you just sit cross legged and giggle.
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