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human
Why can't you feel radiation?

Im sat here in pain for braking a toe... Not life threatening at all but my body responds in pain. I get an xray which you cant have to much of but you dont even feel a tickle?
gpt
You *can* feel radiation.  You feel it all the time.  Every time you step outside, the light radiation from the sun (and the infrared radiation from the hot things around you, like cars and concrete) heats the surface of your skin, and you do, in fact feel it.

By, you're probably wondering why you cannot feel X-ray radiation.  Well, at high enough power, you can.  However, if the X-ray radiation is powerful enough to be felt, you're probably dead, soon.

X-ray radiation is of a much higher frequency than infrared or light radiation.  Instead of being scattered immediately by the surface of your skin, it passes through being scattered very little by soft tissue, and more by denser tissue.  It does heat the tissue it scatters off of, but since your bones have no nerve endings for temperature sensing, you cannot feel it.

The reason you're only allowed to receive a certain amount of X-ray radiation in your lifetime is due to the fact that, when X-rays hit complex molecules (like DNA) and scatter, they can also alter the structure of those compounds.  The X-rays are literally scrambling your DNA.