Four cell phones pop popcorn!! How does that work?

Question

Have you seen the youtube videos where three or four cell phones pointed into middle of table. Kernals of corn placed in the center. People call the phones at the same time and the kernals popped!! Can anyone explain that!???

Answer 1

This isn't an egg, it's one or two kernels of popcorn with four cell phones.  It is certainly possible to generate that much heat.

Answer 2

It doesn't. It's a hoax. Look here:

http://www.snopes.com/science/cookegg.as...

Answer 3

I'm too tired to sit and do the equations myself, but if it works, it works-- if it don't, who cares. Cool video, to say the least. For someone "microwaving" their brain for two hours a day (or more!) with a ½ watt "microwave transmitter" (cell phone) for say, 20 years??? That's BOUND to cause some damage....

**Yawn**

G-nite all!

Answer 4

Cell phones use less than 1 watt.  Nothing close to the 900 watts a microwave uses.  

The video is fake.  Try it yourself.  Or check out Snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/science/cookegg.as...  and scroll to the bottom.