I would love to watch this person glaze over while I explain that they both run at 2.4 ghz and are thus identical as far as radiation goes. The EM spectrum isn’t that complicated a concept, I don’t know why it’s such black magic to so many
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Because they don't understand it, and fearing something is much easier to do than to take second semester physics.
It's not second semester physics, though. It's like middle school nature & science class. It's part of understanding the base foundations of our modern world.
Not to mention, we've known about and actively used electromagnetic waves since the invention of radio (if we ignore light bulbs and visible light, of course)
Eh, I kind of feel like they tell you about these things in middle school, but you won't actually understand them well until you take E&M. Up until that point, you're kind of just accepting what you've been told and haven't been provided in depth knowledge of the subject. Compared to understanding why radiation is ionizing vs non-ionizing, how it behaves, interference, etc.
Really, really depends. I got told about that in high school.
You don't need a physics class. I've never taken one and I still know how radio waves work. Learned about it from Wikipedia.
I don’t know why it’s such black magic to so many
If a Bluetooth and a WiFi got in a fight, who would win?
The microwave
The tooth, obviously. The tooth goes into the wifi.
This person probably has a job and gets paid for it.
They also vote
And can reproduce without restrictions.
TBF, this is old people Facebook; there is a good chance they can no longer reproduce because of being old.
One of these days I'm going to get an overuse injury from my eye-rolling muscles.
Wifi and Bluetooth both run in radio waves. Christ.
They literally run on the same frequencies (2.4GHz).
I know someone that would use a microwave to heat up food. But would literally run away from it whenever she used it and only come back after the set time passed.
That is at least somewhat logical, if not a bit overly paranoid. A microwave can cause damage if the shielding is damaged, wifi cant ever cause damage.
It could….
If you stuck your head next to a router 24/7 for years with it blasting at full power.
Most consumer grade routers (and enterprise grade access points for that matter) are unable to produce more than 1W. Even with a higher gain factory antenna you might be radiating maybe 30W. There is no conceivable length of time that you could be exposed to that radiation and suffer ill effects from it. I'd be surprised if it was even enough heat the air around it.
No, radio waves are not ionizing. (Unlike, for example, ultraviolet or X-ray.) Ionizing radiation can cause cumulative damage, because each photon quanta has enough energy to potentially change organic molecules. But low frequencies such as radio waves, (anything lower than visible light) can't change your molecules. The most they can do is heat you up, just like visible or infrared light. So unless the radio transmitter is high powered, (such as a microwave) the radio waves won't do any more than the lightbulb in your room. I'm assuming you don't live in a dark cave.
Most microwaves (especially old ones) are shielded very poorly. However microwave radiation is nonionizing so the only harm it is going to do to you is burns if you get hit by enough of it. Needless to say you aren't going to get hit by that much no matter how poorly shielded your microwave is. The worst any consumer microwave will do is screw up your wifi reception around it.
Why is this in big text on a fancy background? Like… are they trying to make it a meme?
Facebook lets you make posts like this
Weird. But it does make it funnier
I don't want Wifi running through my body!
Well I've got some bad news for you, Gladys...