Do you actually put yours on your lap? Mine is usually either on a table or the floor. Rarely is it ever actually on my lap. So my testicles should be fine, either way. That is, unless that cell phone in my pocket is frying them instead!Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I don't think it's the radiation that nukes them, but the simple heat that is generated by the laptops. I've read that it can reduce the fertility of men, because the testes require temperatures lower than 98.6 degrees in order to produce sperm. That's why the scrotum expands and contracts--it's regulating the temperature of the little guys. When they're too hot, the scrotum relaxes and the testicles dangle away from the body. When they're too cold, the scrotum contracts and pulls the testicles closer to the body to warm them up. If you use the laptop all of the time, it can warm your nads up enough to prevent spermatogenesis.
Thank-you. I knew about the heat, but am wondering more about the radiation that a laptop (HDD, monitor, WiFi, etc) emits.
We are probably killing ourselves with all this radiation. Hopefully, it just kills sperm and eggs rather than mutates them. Mutated gametes would not be good.
I highly doubt the radiation from a laptop is strong enough to cook a cell, which is essentially what it has to do in order to cause problems. I work with my laptop inches from my oscilloscope probes in the lab all of the time, and the noise is very minimal. if I put the probe directly over the keyboard it will show a little noise, but not much. tell you what, tomorrow, when I am in the lab, I will test a laptop and see what kind of noise is thrown off a couple of inches below it. somebody else should research what magnitude/infrequency of a E/M wave it takes to cause damage. lets not speculate when we can experiment.
from about 2 inches below the laptop: Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! from 2 inches above the power supply: Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Wow, thank-you! Is the 216 millivolt a dangerous level to have that close? It sounds like a very small amount, but I don't know how amperages etc comes into play.
the noise picked up by a breadboard wire at a distance of about 2 inches below the laptop. I am still in the lab, so if there is a better experiment than that, let me know.
You're measuring electromagnetic radiation, right? According to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_radiation_hazards) the measure that living tissue absorbs EMF is called the specific absorption rate or SAR, as different tissues have different rates of absorption. The units are in watts per kilo, or W/kg. Could you measure the EMF coming out of a computer screen? It says the EMF of microwaves are particularly bad for eyeballs, causing catarcts. I imagine my bad eyesight is from spending the last decade infront of this infernal machine.
