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Comparing sound to light of any frequency is wrong. Light causes damage at a chemical level: heat, photochemical and ionization. It damages our cells. While li
by zarzavat 6mo ago
Comparing sound to light of any frequency is wrong.
Light causes damage at a chemical level: heat, photochemical and ionization. It damages our cells. While light carries energy, it must interact with our tissue to deposit that energy and that interaction is quantum, i.e. frequency-dependent.
Sound causes mechanical damage to organs. It works at a different scale.
So intuition about the relationship between waves and harm is unrelated between light and sound, analogies between the two are not very useful.