Yeah, but biological systems have evolved to survive a baseline level of radiation, so there’s a threshold below which damage is repairable. The main reason for the linear dosage/effect curve being used in the literature is computational convenience. And even then, it depends on the effect. Heating effects, for example, may be fundamentally stochastic, but they’re subject to the laws of thermodynamics, so no matter how long your 100-mw source attempts to heat something, it will never boil. And it’ll still never boil if you run the experiment in parallel a million times.
Anyway, I think the stochasticity you’re referring to is more relevant to ionizing radiation. Mobile phones don’t emit that.
Yeah, but biological systems have evolved to survive a baseline level of radiation, so there’s a threshold below which damage is repairable. The main reason for the linear dosage/effect curve being used in the literature is computational convenience. And even then, it depends on the effect. Heating effects, for example, may be fundamentally stochastic, but they’re subject to the laws of thermodynamics, so no matter how long your 100-mw source attempts to heat something, it will never boil. And it’ll still never boil if you run the experiment in parallel a million times.
Anyway, I think the stochasticity you’re referring to is more relevant to ionizing radiation. Mobile phones don’t emit that.