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Re: Cosmic Rays and Smart Phones

From Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com>
Newsgroups sci.physics.relativity
Subject Re: Cosmic Rays and Smart Phones
Date 2015-10-11 12:05 +0200
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Dne 11/10/2015 v 05:27 John Heath napsal(a):
> On Saturday, October 10, 2015 at 4:04:23 PM UTC-4, Natalina Nazvarova wrote:
>> Sam Wormley wrote:
>>
>>> Cosmic Rays and Smart Phones
>>>>
>>>> Track Cosmic Rays with Smartphone App
>>>>   http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/track-cosmic-rays-
>> with-smartphone-app/
>>>>
>>>> Observing Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays with Smartphones
>>>>   http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.2895
>>>>
>>>> Cosmic ray particle shower? There's an app for that.
>>>>   http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/10/cosmic-ray-particle-shower-
>> theres-an-app-for-that/
>>
>>
>> Why not better detecting the Microwave Radiation pollution while at it, 
>> microwave owns, bluetooth, wifi, wlan etc, 2.4- 5.9 GHz give or take. 
>> There are sensor dedicated to the task embedded already.
> 
> I have a geiger counter app for my iphone. You put black tape over the front camera then start the count. For Americium-241 it is about 20 hits a minute. Not bad for free. As to microwave , 2.5 GHz , it is too low in energy per photon to do any real damage. Microwave oven at 1000 watts at best just warms water up. 2.5 GHz WIFI , bluetooth , xbee in the 5 to 100 m watts range is zip nada zero. 
> 
There is no way selectively determine 241Am by iphone.
Aside of selectivity, there is much stronger naturally occuring
radiation from Radon 222 decay products.

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Re: Cosmic Rays and Smart Phones Natalina Nazvarova <natana42@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-10 20:04 +0000
  Re: Cosmic Rays and Smart Phones John Heath <heathjohn2@gmail.com> - 2015-10-10 20:27 -0700
    Re: Cosmic Rays and Smart Phones Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2015-10-11 12:05 +0200

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