• BenLeMan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Light may serve well as a 17th century explanation or approximation of what microwaves are. But just to clarify: they are radio waves with no particles. And not only is there no source of heat visible, there literally isn’t one in the device. The heat emanates from the water in the food itself.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe I’ve forgotten my high school physics, but radio waves and light are still all EMF, right? They’re the exact same thing at different frequencies?