Just watched Chernobyl and saw how “everything” electrical got destroyed from the radiation, but not the geiger counters. Why it that?
In: Biology
Well, electricity and radiation are both waves in the same ocean and the stronger wave will overpower the smaller one and it just so happens that dangerous radiation is the stronger wave compared to electricity.
So say you are measuring the small waves in a small area of the ocean, and some powerful wave comes by and ruins your measurements, this is the case for most electronic devices, there’s many small parts measuring their own region of the ocean, and when a big wave comes by, they don’t know how to measuring by them selves, so they shut down.
Geiger counters look for these big waves and give you a message everytime they see one.
In other words geiger counters work opposite, ignoring small signals and reacting to big ones.
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