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Everybody seems to agree that when a microwave oven is opened, no radiation escapes. On a different thread, somebody said: "Microwave radiation is like light: it absorbs quickly into objects after the source is turned off." This analogy to light is often used to explain why no microwave...

I think that the confusion appears because we think of the gravitational pull on the liquid above the object, as if it were a macroscopic object (with mass according to the density of the liquid). Then we start talking about pressure as the result of microscopic motion of molecules. Maybe the...

russ_waters said: "Microwave radiation is like light: it absorbs quickly into objects after the source is turned off." But if I have understood correctly, the walls of the microwave oven almost completely reflect microwave radiation. So the equivalent thing would be would a light source within a...