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Originally Posted by Baby Lee

It's just because nuclear power and our understanding of the energy spectrum grew up together.

Microwaves are actually energy waves like visible light, or infrared heat. A magnetron produces wave of a length optimized to perturb water, giving it energy and thus heat.

It's true that the shorter waves become the more dangerous they are FOR US because the statistical ability to penetrate our body because it takes up less room. And that energy in concentration my excite our molecular structure improperly. But that's not a concern in cooking, even microwaving as the addition of energy to effect molecular change is the purpose of all cooking.

And none of that has anything to do [except in the sense that the laws of physics and electromagnetism is all related] with nuclear power.

JFC, Sheldon.