Of course, 5G enables tons of benefits in our day to day work, Super-fast internet for instance. But the sad truth is there are some negative myths about it. So I decided to cover one of those.
Sometimes back the US military developed a weapon called 'Active Denial System(ADS)' to control the crowd by heating the surface of the target. it falls in the category of non-lethal technology that uses the millimeter-wave electromagnetic energy to work. In 2010 it was deployed with the United States military. Since the purpose of the ADS is to make targets feel like something is hurting(heat) their skin while it is working, it is using 94 to 95 GHz exposure millimeter-wave under very high power density. just like we do with sunlight and a magnifying glass.
The important thing is 5G also uses the same millimeter-wave in higher frequency rates in-ordered to trigger the benefits of the ultra-speed network. So you might think "The answer for our question is True, 5G borrowed engineering behind a weapon"....right? Not Exactly. It doesn't work like that at all. Because the purpose of 5G never meets the purpose of ADS. Also, 5G falls under ICNIRP guidelines. Then what are the actual difference between the ADS and 5G handsets? Well, I already mentioned that with the help of high power/energy density the ADS is trying to do what it supposed to do. But when it comes to 5G, even though it is using the same high-frequency millimeter-wave it never produces much power in a very small area. It means very low power density, relatively speaking.
But from that, we can't argue that "5G is not harmful". it is still debatable. A lot of research papers are out there on both sides. Some of them say "5G causes health issues" and some others say "not". Since the World Health Organization put normal cellular networks in the 2B category of cancer factors, they are not ready to recommend 5G without further case studies. Anyhow, most of the countries are racing to deploy this technology as soon as possible.
We are not here to talk about health issues. So let's turn back to the topic. It's 100% true that the 5G uses the same wave used in the ADS, but the important thing we have to understand is the mechanism/engineering behind 5G doesn't work as same as the ADS does.
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