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Between Gamma rays and 3G is UV. Between UV and 3G is visible light. Between visible light and 3G is IR, one of which is the heat human bodies give off. Do warm blooded animals cause cancer? Because they're still a far higher frequency than 3G and the wattage of a human at rest is 100W which is roughly equivalent.

Do hugs cause cancer? If yes, then we can start narrowing it down to 3G/5G more after that. But by that stage I think we're doomed as a species anyway.



Microwaves are around 2.4G yet they can pump a lot of energy into water, and that can be an unintended side effect with WiFi.

Of course that's one thing that we know about, we can reason about, and that's why people are not getting boiled.


Yes, wattage matters. The comment you responded to covered that.

> the wattage of a human at rest is 100W which is roughly equivalent.


I was more referring to energy density and total energy density over time. Also absorption patterns and penetration depth.

We know these pretty well, but they are not trivial (due to non-linearity creeping in).




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