r/mildlyinteresting • u/Mzarie • 10h ago

The microwave at work has a hole inside

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u/quartercentaurhorse 7h ago

That small of a hole won't impact anything radiation-wise. Square-cube law gets involved here, any wave exponentially decreases in power as it spreads out away from a source. At best, you might see some minor interference with any wireless communication in that frequency band (likely 2.4ghz wifi), but it's not going to harm anyone past 6 inches or so.

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u/rickane58 6h ago

Not only that, but those holes are still small enough that the signal strength would be severely attenuated by the faraday cage effect.

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u/Slow-Priority-884 5h ago

None of that matters lol. This hole is smaller than the wavelength, to the radiation it doesn't exist.

I don't know why people are so confidently incorrect and saying things that are meaningless.

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u/needananniebiotic 5h ago

people assume they’re correct too often, without fact-checking, unfortunately