The lower the frequency, the better it penetrates.
That's why radio waves go through a door, but light doesn't.
On the other hand, with a similar amplitude, the lower frequency carries less energy.
The claim is that microwave frequencies are in the sweet spot in between - low enough frequency to penetrate well (they go through doors just like radio waves) but are still energetic enough to cause problems.
Do cell phones cause cancer? Is there any plausible way for micro waves, radio waves...
I've been wondering about this myself because. Cellphones use microwaves, which are pretty high energy but not ionizing, so they probably aren't changing your molecules, meaning they're not directly causing cancer. Still though, people who have been chronically hyperexposed to microwaves tend to have increased cancer rates, so I doubt it can be good for us.
>unscientific report by a bunch of ideologists
>not even peer reviewed
just read the wikipedia. It basically sums up all the unconclusive research and unverified hypotheses. No need to click this guy's link.
frequency doesn't have anything directly to do with ability to penetrate things. The reason why a wall stops IR, UV, and visible light but not radio or gamma is because atoms (more specifically electron shells) are especially reactive to photons in that range of wavelengths. Radio waves are so low energy that electron energy levels laugh at them. Since they are unresponsive to electrons, there's really nothing else to stop them unless they happen to strike the nucleus. That fact is why radios don't cause cancer. They travel right through bonds because their energy is far too low to stimulate electrons in any way (weird resonance situations like microwaves notwithstanding, but that manifests as heat and not altering of chemical bonds, so it doesn't make a difference anyway)
your body literally emits infrared energy, to claim microwaves causes significance damage form outside sources in ludicrous
>manifests as heat and not altering of chemical bonds
maybe, maybe the resonance could cause something like the images in
en.wikipedia.org
to happen
anything higher frequency than visible is getting shifty, but anything lower level shouldn't be any more dangerous than visible light.
That sounds like bullshit
Can the power from dozens of cell phones inside of a train car accumulate and be powerful enough to cause cancer if you're there for hours and hours?