What are the advantages and disadvantages of having the ability to both see and emit gamma rays from your eyes? You are immune to its radiation. More👇

[ElijahRyne]

It is powered by stored energy. Be that in a battery, or your movement. 1 joule of energy stored can be converted to .8 joules when emitted.

 

[NotaNuffian]

It is powered by stored energy. Be that in a battery, or your movement. 1 joule of energy stored can be converted to .8 joules when emitted.

You can cause cancer with your eyes by emiting blue beams from them.

The only usefulness is when your character works in a nuclear power plant as the safety officer or inspector and you use the power as such. Or the fact that you are immune to radiation (I assume that you are immune to gamma radiations from other sources as well, if not it makes no sense) and thus, work as search and rescue in nuclear disaster zones.

 

[Piisfun]

It is powered by stored energy. Be that in a battery, or your movement. 1 joule of energy stored can be converted to .8 joules when emitted.

Honestly?
You would be better off with almost any lower energy type of electromagnetic radiation. There are so few things that emit gamma rays that it wouldn't be very useful for observation, and those things that do emit so much that you would be instantly blinded.

As for emission, similar logic applies. Almost everything you can accomplish with gamma rays can also be accomplished with X-rays.

 

[Kenjona]

Honestly?
You would be better off with almost any lower energy type of electromagnetic radiation. There are so few things that emit gamma rays that it wouldn't be very useful for observation, and those things that do emit so much that you would be instantly blinded.

As for emission, similar logic applies. Almost everything you can accomplish with gamma rays can also be accomplished with X-rays.

To add to this Gamma Rays are much more damaging and penetrating than X-Rays. Most present usage of gamma rays are for disinfection of items instead of Chemicals or Autoclaves and scanning in a non intrusive way (Customs and Border Patrol uses such scanners on ship containers), where there is suppose to be no lifeforms involved. But the sky would look gloriously lit up to you, it just would not lite up the ground for you. :)

 

[ElijahRyne]

To add to this Gamma Rays are much more damaging and penetrating than X-Rays. Most present usage of gamma rays are for disinfection of items instead of Chemicals or Autoclaves and scanning in a non intrusive way (Customs and Border Patrol uses such scanners on ship containers), where there is suppose to be no lifeforms involved. But the sky would look gloriously lit up to you, it just would not lite up the ground for you. :)

Don’t forget that things would also become see through to you!

 

[Kenjona]

Don’t forget that things would also become see through to you!

Which means you are effectively blind as long as you are emitting gamma rays; as things will only be "solid" depending on its inherent density and the thickness of the material. A 1.5 Meter block of cement will seem diffuse and cloudy about a meter inside its block, which means if you are walking, you will walk into it. That front door? Does not exist in your sight, neither do the walls next to it. Dog attacking you? Your gonna get bit as you are not even going to see the bones inside their skin. The CBP are using it to find nuclear materials being transported illegally, nuclear materials tend to emit gamma rays and they show up as dense cannot see through items in their scanners. Gamma rays penetrate nearly everything, if you can see through walls, you are going to see through everything else behind those walls.

 

[ChocolateLover030]

You can cause cancer with your eyes by emiting blue beams from them.

Time to surprise kids with cancer :)

 

[Kenjona]

Time to surprise kids with cancer :)

You can cure cancer with it too. Technically.

 

[NotaNuffian]

You can cure cancer with it too. Technically.

So you can make a quick buck by causing the problem and resolving it.

 

[K5Rakitan]

I'd seek out people who are abusive/neglectful parents and fry their gonads.

 

[Ediav42]

You can cause cancer with your eyes by emiting blue beams from them.

The only usefulness is when your character works in a nuclear power plant as the safety officer or inspector and you use the power as such. Or the fact that you are immune to radiation (I assume that you are immune to gamma radiations from other sources as well, if not it makes no sense) and thus, work as search and rescue in nuclear disaster zones.

You can see a new “color” but could be bad if it gets in the way of your usual vision
Giving people cancer is definitely a minus unless you are a terrible person:

makes you feel bad like this

 

[Kenjona]

Even Superman's "X-Ray" vision does not work the same as real X-Rays do. Since X-Rays work by sending X-Rays through an object and having a plate that records the change in the X-rays, due to moving through different densities, on the other side to see what is inside of what you are scanning. His vision acts more like ground penetrating radar, sending a signal through an object and reading the bounced back signal (without a bounced back signal), with color scan built in at that.

 

[trinitys_gadget]

Um, are the gamma rays I emit coherent?
That aside, sight is dependent on reflected or scattered light, and there just aren't that many gamma rays (photons with E = 1MeV or higher) wandering around in the wild. The gamma rays you emit are probably not coming back to you 1. because gamma rays go through nearly everything and 2. because of pair production. Most of the gamma rays you aim at a solid are going to become electrons and positrons. Gamma ray eyes are definately not as cool as they sound, and there's a reason eyes are broad spectrum receivers. (Though, you could probably see some cool black holes).

Oh, and you'd have to stare as someone for a while to give them cancer. And maybe, in 10 years, they'll die. You'd have to give someone a whole body dose in excess of 5 Sv to kill them within a month and atleast .5 Sv to notably up their odds of getting cancer.