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"Radio wave" is an engineering term - it just describes photons that we can detect and emit using a certain type of technology. It's a totally arbitrary categor
by jdietrich 2y ago
"Radio wave" is an engineering term - it just describes photons that we can detect and emit using a certain type of technology. It's a totally arbitrary category in a physical sense. What we're really talking about is photons with an energy up to about 10^-3 electron volts.
My body is constantly radiating about 120 watts worth of photons, with energies up to about 10^-1 eV. I'm constantly glowing with non-ionizing radiation that I emit as a natural side-effect of living, producing vastly more energy than any wireless device you're likely to encounter.
There's just no plausible mechanism by which a small quantity of low-energy photons could be more harmful than the far greater number of higher-energy photons you're exposed to in literally any environment compatible with human life. If you fear WiFi, you should be terrified of heat and light. Radio waves aren't a mysterious force summoned up by man, they're a tiny portion of the cacophony of electromagnetic radiation that we're exposed to by literally every speck of matter in the universe.
- nerdponx 2y agoThe "light bad" argument I think misses the point. It's not about heating, the idea is that an electromagnetic field might excite electrical systems in the body, and that we have evolved to tolerate some baseline level of that but maybe could experience adverse effects from sustained exposure above that baseline. I'm not saying that is or isn't true, but at least argue against the right thing.
- LargoLasskhyfv 2y agoThere is the matter of modulation, though. Or let's just say https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors_of_noise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors_of_noise Maybe we evolved to handle some 'colors' better, and that artificial stuff just hits us like a jackhammer, even if it's 'weak'?