Cell phone towers emit signals in a "flower petal" pattern around the tower. This 360-degree radius around the tower is called a "cell" and this is what the term "cell" in cell phone means.

It is possible to form a somewhat informed opinion on the safety or potential risks of this new technology without actually being a physicist yourself.

The emergence of cellular phones in our modern lives has become a prevailing necessity. Nowadays, vast majority of the world population are hooked with this tiny yet powerful gadget.

The average person lives within one-half mile of a cell phone tower. Have you ever wondered how close you live or work to one of these towers? Would it bother you if one were right in your backyard?

Animals aren't exempt from exposure the cell phone tower radiation either. One veterinary school in Hanover, Germany, reports that dairy cows kept in close proximity to a cell phone tower for two years had a reduction in milk production in addition to other health problems including abnormal behavior patterns.

Ronald Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, shocked just about all law-abiding scientists (abiding by laws of physics, that is) with his warning last week to his faculty and staff that cell phones might pose a cancer risk.

The obvious cure for cancer is to stop poisoning the air water and earth we are made of by doing away with cars and smoke stacks and cell phones and computers as our super brilliant pyramid and space ship building ancestors did for 5 million years but human beings don't like it plain and simple.

Do you use a cell phone? Most people do. In fact, they have pretty much become something that no one can live without. No matter where you go, someone is talking into their cell phone, or has it shoved up against their head, listening.

Although the FDA takes a neutral position on cell phone radiation our government has known of problems for some time. During the Cold War the American Embassy in Moscow was "micro-waved" by the Russian Embassy. The American ambassador became ill and was soon diagnosed with leukemia.

The sound of a guitar, an x-ray taken in a doctor's office, the warmth of the sun and energy generated in a nuclear power plant all have one thing in common they are forms of radiation.