Reputation: 104
Popcorn popping (lol thread)
So on the news here, there was just this story about how cellphones can radiate enough radio waves to pop popcorn. Who really thinks this is true? Some say it is, some say its fake. The people who believe it say that the old phones released more radio waves making it possible....thoughts....comments?
Reputation: 18
Portable popcorn popping = pwnage, so I'll go with it.
Plus, PPP has some sort of ring to it.
Reputation: 26
What?
It's the heat that pops popcorn kernels, not radiation.
Reputation: 104
Don't look at me, i thought this was interesting/funny seeing as it made enough attention to be put on the news at 11:00PM
Reputation: 19
Originally Posted by GrandHustle
What?
It's the heat that pops popcorn kernels, not radiation.
Forms of radiation can produce heat.
Wait, wtf. Heat IS radiation. (a type)
Reputation: 11
A physicist already shot it down. It appears to be a viral campaign for (or against) the Nokia or Sony brand.
Reputation: 26
Well what I meant was that the cell phones obviously wouldn't be able to generate enough radiation to actually produce the heat equivalent to that of a microwave.
if that were true, then you would cook yourself by putting your hand next to several phones.
Reputation: 52
Obviously fake i mean cell phone=microwave? DOES NOT COMPUTE!
Reputation: 47
It's possible. Apple is now marketing the iPopper attachments to their iPhones to keep ahead of the competition. That way Apple patrons can have their phones out during movies and not seem rude.
Reputation: 1151
You sure about that? I think heat radiates, but I don't know if it IS radiation...
there you go., symbolized by Q, is energy transferred from one body or system to another due to a difference in temperature.[1][2] In thermodynamics, the quantity TdS is used as a representative measure of heat, which is the absolute temperature of an object multiplied by the differential quantity of a system's entropy measured at the boundary of the object. Heat can flow spontaneously from an object with a high temperature to an object with a lower temperature. The transfer of heat from one object to another object with an equal or higher temperature can happen only with the aid of a heat pump. High temperature bodies, which often result in high rates of heat transfer, can be created by chemical reactions (such as burning), nuclear reactions (such as fusion taking place inside the Sun), electromagnetic dissipation (as in electric stoves), or mechanical dissipation (such as friction). Heat can be transferred between objects by radiation, conduction and convection. Temperature is used as a measure of the internal energy or enthalpy, that is the level of elementary motion giving rise to heat transfer. Heat can only be transferred between objects, or areas within an object, with different temperatures (as given by the zeroth law of thermodynamics), and then, in the absence of work, only in the direction of the colder body (as per the second law of thermodynamics). The temperature and phase of a substance subject to heat transfer are determined by latent heat and heat capacity. A related term is thermal energy, loosely defined as the energy of a body that increases with its temperature.
Reputation: 167
It not heat either. Its the agitation of the water molecules within the popcorn that pops it. Production of heat is a side effect.What?
It's the heat that pops popcorn kernels, not radiation.
You can do this without heat or any type of "waves".
Reputation: 10
actualy cyber
the heat causes the moisture to expand
but mobile phones can not give out enough radiation to pop corn overwise mobiles wouldnt be deemed safe if there giving enough heat radiation to popcorn
Reputation: 167
I didnt say anything about radiation. When water is in a contained enviroment the proper amount of excitement to the water molecules will produce heat.
The expansion of water is only done by exciting the molecules so much that they need room to bounce around. Its this needed room from the excited water molecules that force the popcorn kernal to pop.
As I said before, the production of heat is a product of making the water molecules excited and you do not need heat to excite the water molecules.
You dont have to use radiation, heat, or microwaves to popcorn. Anything that excites the water molecules in the kernal can pop popcorn.
Reputation: 10
ahh that makes more sense
Reputation: 6
lol
That's c-raz-y!
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