IDTIMWYTIM: Radiation
Hank explains the whole story about radiation - the good, the extremely helpful, and the bad. Like SciShow on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Follow SciShow on Twitter: http://www.twitte...
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Radiation: causing horrible things like cancer and warmth and food and cell phones and sunsets since the beginning of time- what are we talking about?Welcome to another edition of I don't think that means what you think it meansRadiation; it's when energetic particles or waves move through space and it's pretty much the best thing everRadiation includes:Visible lightWhich is always bouncing off of stuff and then hitting our retinas allowing us to not stub our toes and generally enjoy the splendor of the worldIt's also what plants convert into the food we eatInfrared, or IR, radiationWhich is the stuff that actually warms the Earth so it's the reason that we are not all freezing to death right nowMicrowaves, which not only h...
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Radiation: causing horrible things like cancer and warmth and food and cell phones and sunsets since the beginning of time- what are we talking about?Welcome to another edition of I don't think that means what you think it meansRadiation; it's when energetic particles or waves move through space and it's pretty much the best thing everRadiation includes:Visible lightWhich is always bouncing off of stuff and then hitting our retinas allowing us to not stub our toes and generally enjoy the splendor of the worldIt's also what plants convert into the food we eatInfrared, or IR, radiationWhich is the stuff that actually warms the Earth so it's the reason that we are not all freezing to death right nowMicrowaves, which not only h...
