What is the hypothetical mechanism for low-level non-ionizing radiation to cause tumors?
One possibility is that it is not non-ionizing radiation. Although antennas and transmitters are designed to produce radiation of non-ionizing frequencies, I wonder about radiation produced from the initial transients of a transmission. Specifically, when charge in a conductor, like an antenna, is first accelerated using an oscillating electric field of a particular frequency, there is an initial momement when that charge is not moving in sync with the field. In differential equations, this moment is capured in the often neglected transient component, while the pure oscilatory component is captured by the steady state term. I've occasionally wondered whether radiation emmited during the transient, regardless of the actual frequency driving the antenna, can be ionising. Perhaps an actual engineer with some antenna expertise can chime in on this.
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What is the hypothetical mechanism for low-level non-ionizing radiation to cause tumors? One possibility is that it is not non-ionizing radiation. Although antennas and transmitters are designed to produce radiation of non-ionizing frequencies, I wonder about radiation produced from the initial transients of a transmission. Specifically, when charge in a conductor, like an antenna, is first accelerated using an oscillating electric field of a particular frequency, there is an initial momement when that charge is not moving in sync with the field. In differential equations, this moment is capured in the often neglected transient component, while the pure oscilatory component is captured by the steady state term. I've occasionally wondered whether radiation emmited during the transient, regardless of the actual frequency driving the antenna, can be ionising. Perhaps an actual engineer with some antenna expertise can chime in on this.