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Michael Smith
Michael Smith arrives in his office wearing his usual shabby old sweater and trousers that long ago should have been sent to a charity like the Salvation Army. You would never guess that just a few days before he had been awarded half a million dollars, his share of the 1993 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Smith passes by a wall of shallow shelves jammed full of medals, awards and plaques for prizes he... |
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Q: My dad was saying that radio waves from TV transmitter stations can burn you severely if you are near the transmitter. However according to E=hf, a radio wave photon will have very little energy, so how can it burn you? Especially as the energy of the photon will stay the same however far it goes and they don't burn us a long way from the transmitter.
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