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Non-ionizing electromagnetic waves don't have enough energy to remove electrons from molecules or DNA. So as long as the "soup" consists of waves with longer wa
by chorsestudios 6y ago
Non-ionizing electromagnetic waves don't have enough energy to remove electrons from molecules or DNA. So as long as the "soup" consists of waves with longer wavelength than visible light we should be fine.
- ben_w 6y agoAlthough the first sentence is true, the second doesn’t follow perfectly from it. Microwave ovens are much longer wavelengths than visible light, and some biological processes are sensitive to a few degrees of temperature change. I have close to zero reason to believe that current environmental EM exposure is even close to strong enough to be relevant (Mythbusters or a similar show tried to use a hundred cellphones at the same time to cook food, and demonstrated that no it doesn’t), but this sort of thing could reasonably prevent microwave beamed power from seeing widespread use.