Gamma control = how much gamma rays are emitting?

[K.I.L.E.R]

Gamma rays are let off when a nuke explodes.

The sun also emitts them.

But why in the living hell do people want to knock up the gamma in colour controls?

There are other ways of making your screen brighter without the harmfull effects of TOO much gamma.

Of course you have to have your gamma set on to some extent but too much is a no no.

Can our bodies break down gamma radiation like other types of radiation break down in our bodies over time?

How much time will it take?

Is there any permament damage done to us?

 

[Neeyik]

...groan...

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

...groan...

 

[martrox]

K, man, you have too much free time.......

 

[vrecan]

HAHAHAHAHAHA, Awsome graph man!

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

I'm asking a few questions. When will anyone answer them?

 

[pcchen]

1. Gamma rays are very dangerous. They are neutral and are able to penetrate thick walls (it takes a 30cm thick concrete wall to stop gamma rays). They surely can kill, permanentely.

2. The "gamma correction" you use for monitor calibration has nothing to do with gamma rays.

 

[Vince]

This has to be a joke, right?

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

1. Gamma rays are very dangerous. They are neutral and are able to penetrate thick walls (it takes a 30cm thick concrete wall to stop gamma rays). They surely can kill, permanentely.

2. The "gamma correction" you use for monitor calibration has nothing to do with gamma rays.

Doh!

Thanks. Doesn't a CRT monitor produce gamma radiation in serverely small amounts?

So how did GC get it's name?

 

[jvd]

Killer. IF you spend to much time in front of a monitor your sperm count will drop and you will turn into a 9 foot tall green guy that gets stronger the more angry you get. The plus side is you end up with jennifer conelly . So i guess its a good thing

 

[pcchen]

Well, I don't know. You may end up throwing all your computer rigs out of the window. Of course, you'll have the excuse to upgrade your computers

 

[Captain Chickenpants]

The gamma function gets it's name as that is simply the greek letter normally used when writing the function down.

y=x^(1/gamma)

CC

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

The gamma function gets it's name as that is simply the greek letter normally used when writing the function down.

y=x^(1/gamma)

CC

Ahhh, THANK YOU!

Now to find out what radiation CRT monitors throw at me.

 

[Bambers]

can't believe you were serious

sorry


As for CRT monitors they mostly give off EM radiation of wavelengths ~ 700nm, ~550nm and ~430nm

 

[Ilfirin]

K.I.L.E.R>

Gamma radiation is serious stuff. Gamma rays have a wavelength of about 10^-12 meters - that's .001 nanometers. A bit of highschool physics will tell you that the energy in a single photon is hc/lambda, where lambda is the wavelength, h is planck's constant, and c is the speed of light. For Gamma rays that means each photon has 1,242,000 eVs of energy, and a ray has millions of photons in them.

That's some really high-energy stuff colliding with your molecules, and that wavelength is smaller than the size of an atom (though not quite as small as an atom's necleus). While it won't typically break apart atoms, it is enough to break apart and change some molecules and that little 3 letter word inside your cells - DNA.

If you were to come into contact with any of that you'd be lucky to get out alive, if not with cancer or some other horrible cell-level mutation. So, yeah, this stuff is pretty rare as far as day-to-day life is concerned (unless you work at a nuclear plant, but then you should still never come in direct contact with it)

 

[Simon F]

can't believe you were serious

sorry


As for CRT monitors they mostly give off EM radiation of wavelengths ~ 700nm, ~550nm and ~430nm

So we strongly recommend only viewing the monitor through the bottom of a brown beer bottle or smoked glass to avoid damaging your eyes.

 

[Neeyik]

can't believe you were serious

sorry


As for CRT monitors they mostly give off EM radiation of wavelengths ~ 700nm, ~550nm and ~430nm

I agree with Bambers here - I though you were joking!

CRTs emits x-rays due to the electrons striking the shadow mask or aperture grille, as well as the screen itself. However, the thickness of the glass front reduces the intensity of such emissions to a pretty low level, although it is not zero by any means. X-rays may be neutral but they are still ionizing; you absorb in the order of 0.01 ~ 0.1 millisieverts of radiation per year just from TVs.

 

[Neeyik]

If you were to come into contact with any of that you'd be lucky to get out alive, if not with cancer or some other horrible cell-level mutation. So, yeah, this stuff is pretty rare as far as day-to-day life is concerned (unless you work at a nuclear plant, but then you should still never come in direct contact with it)

Reading a movie script or something? I'm not in a nuclear plant but I handle gamma emitting substances nearly every day. I'm not, I'm sterile, I'm not a 15' bug-eyed mutant; I pass my yearly health checks with no problems. Yes, gamma ray photons are high energy but they are also highly penetrating, so they are more likely to simply pass through human tissue than be absorbed - of course, basic statistics shows us that if you have enough of the events taking place, then no matter how unlikely an occurance is going to be, one will take place.

 

[K.I.L.E.R]

can't believe you were serious

sorry


As for CRT monitors they mostly give off EM radiation of wavelengths ~ 700nm, ~550nm and ~430nm

I agree with Bambers here - I though you were joking!

CRTs emits x-rays due to the electrons striking the shadow mask or aperture grille, as well as the screen itself. However, the thickness of the glass front reduces the intensity of such emissions to a pretty low level, although it is not zero by any means. X-rays may be neutral but they are still ionizing; you absorb in the order of 0.01 ~ 0.1 millisieverts of radiation per year just from TVs.

That all breaks down though. The question is, can a body of an 18-19 year old boy break down the radiation faster than what is absorbed per hour into my body?

 

[Neeyik]

Ionising radiation does not "break down" - it's not a chemical or substance. Tissue absorbs the radiation and either becomes ionised or undergoes cell damage, which can sometimes to lead to mutations and so on. The body replaces the cells and moves on (hopefully).