Comment Re:There are microwaves everywhere. (Score 1) 238
>Now I don't believe that cell phones are dangerous. But the amount of energy microwaves carry has very little to do with that.
It has a lot to do with it. The mechanism you describe isn't possible for microwaves because the photons simply aren't energetic enough. The energy of a photon is proportional to its frequency - a 1GHz photon has energy of around 4 micro electron volts, a few orders of magnitude lower than molecular binding energies. Gamma ray photons of course have energies which are very large compared to the binding energy of molecules and will blast them apart.
It has a lot to do with it. The mechanism you describe isn't possible for microwaves because the photons simply aren't energetic enough. The energy of a photon is proportional to its frequency - a 1GHz photon has energy of around 4 micro electron volts, a few orders of magnitude lower than molecular binding energies. Gamma ray photons of course have energies which are very large compared to the binding energy of molecules and will blast them apart.
