With all of this 5G talk going around, I have a few questions. I would like to state- I am NOT someone who thinks 5G is any sort of conspiracy- I just want facts to be able to argue with those who do. (I have some relatives that are VERY against it) Moving on…
Everyone seems to say 5G is safe because it’s non-ionizing.
However, if I look at the elecromagnetic spectrum, I can see that Microwaves are also non-ionizing. I use microwaves every day to heat up my food. This seems like it would be dangerous to a human.
What’s the difference between these two waves (other than wavelength, obviously), and why don’t I have to worry about 5G towers hurting me?
I guess my true question is why don’t cell and radio towers hurt people? They must be high powered to travel long distances- but microwaves are relatively low powered home devices that absolutey can hurt people.
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Ionizing radiation causes chemical bonds to break, including the bonds that hold DNA together, and the chemical structure of other things your cells require to live.
Radio waves(including 5G), infrared, visible light, UV, X-Rays, and gamma rays are all electromagnetic radiation, just with a different amount of energy per photon. An X ray or gamma ray might blow off an electron that’s already part of a chemical bond, where a radio wave is only going to influence unbound electrons or slightly move polar molecules.
You need a whole lot of radio waves to hurt someone, mostly by warming them up until they burn from the temperature. The same way you’d get hurt by visible light or infrared. A 100w light bulb can burn you if it’s light output is focused down into a small area, but how many light bulbs would you have to put on a cell tower before the light was bright enough to be dangerous to people on the ground?
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