Increased Storage Needs Increase Danger of Mutagenic Radiation

Due to the increasing number of electrons pushed and pulled into coherent patterns in information storage, scientists have noted that computer equipment, especially storage media, are exhibiting strange behavior. It has been theorized that this behavior, as noted below, is caused by the propensity of electrons to exist in a more or less randomized quantum state. When they are aligned into patterns such as used in processors and information storage, their states are forced to become relatively more static. The energy released when they re-enter a quantumly randomized state, the theory goes, may cause local atoms to break free of molecular bond structures and/or the emission of radiation.

- Some chips have shown signs of matter sublimation from processor cores outwards. Affected chips include IBM Transmeta, AMD Opteron, and PowerPC 970. In most cases damage is not extensive enough to cause the chip to cease functioning, as most chips have billions of microcircuits. However, damage can manifest as processor slowdowns.

- Storage Media, including hard drives, CD-ROM and floppy disk media have been found to emit measurable amounts of thetasigma radiation, which has a profoundly mutagenic waveform. While danger to computer users has not been determined, cautionary protective measures, such as wearing of lead undergarments, are advisable.

More details will be posted as they are reported.