Kids watching. A microwave transformer will instantly kill you if you so much as touch it. Please never ever take a microwave apart unless you know what you're doing. (As in if you are an electrical engineer. Or equivalent knowledge level.)
Also it doesn't lose energy very quickly. As in, unplug the microwave, open it up 2 weeks later, well guess what? Turns out it does a pretty good job at storing energy.
@@charakiga Then youre probably using a 30 year old microwave. Any Microwave from the last 10-15 or so years will 99% of the time have a bleeder resistor to instantly discharge the capacitor to safe levels. In fact, thats the case for many if not most Powersupplies. I have tested this myself over and over. Never did i even get a single spark or any noise while shorting the capacitor within seconds after unplugging mains. Im almost certain that this is standard safety code so you can even sell a microwave. It CAN happen that your appliance doesnt have a bleed resistor but it most probably wont. Stop spreading this myth as if its 100% real.
@@Sharpless2 yep true. and also a liability thing, legally they want to play it safe and why they put the big scary stickers. also people are dumb and would touch stuff when powered on.
My dad was an analytical chemist and one day at the company he worked for they got him to experiment with microwave disgestion systems, which are used to accelerate chemical reactions. But because they were new they didn't know how long it had to go in a mircowave for. So my dad was tasked with using a long stick turning on the microwave running out of the door and waiting for the microwave to blow up, so they knew how long before it would go up. He also told me that one time he was working in his office and a huge explosion shook the building he was and came from the direction of one of the warehouses. He went out and it seemed totally fine, until he got closer and there were tons of bricks inside the warehouse. It turned out that an explosion of some chemcials stored in it blew the roof off the top of the warehouse and it went straight upwards and straight back down and landed ontop of the bit of the warehouse that wasn't destroyed, like some looney tunes type thing. I remember he got a bonus once when the factory didn't have an accident for 100 days and then on the next day one happened. Edit : he just told me how when he first worked there they didn't have pipettes and had to do "pipette by mouth" as in he had put the chemicals in his mouth and spit the right amount into whatever solution they were making. He said some of them he could felt like his teeth were dissolving.
@@crowderpiano he just told me how when he first worked there they didn't have pipettes and had to do "pipette by mouth" as in he had put the chemicals in his mouth and spit the right amount into whatever solution they were making. He said some of them he could felt like his teeth were dissolving.
Yeah, or that they've been raided by the government, I'm pretty sure Styropyro is currently fine though, I only really start to worry after 4 or 5 months
@@8266 the problem was at chernobyl tha they act. Did turn down the reaktor wich it activated its fuison because if the graphit tip Watch HBO Chernobyl its great explained
The part about the mesh blocking the microwaves was actually a very neat point I enjoyed. I actually researched it a bit myself and it looks like light propagation and the THICKNESS OF THE GLASS is actually what contributes the most! It's hilarious that it's not _just_ the mesh's design, but also the physical property of the medium itself that prevents the wave from penetrating through!
Physics professor here specialized in the cosmic microwave background. The reason water heats up is indeed because of the electric dipole moment of the water molecule, but it is being heated by its interaction with the electric field, not the magnetic field. Also, the reason that the microwaves can't pass through the small holes is that currents are generated in the mesh. These currents reradiate in a way that almost exactly cancels the field on the outside. Because the wavelength is much longer than the hole size, the flowing current is a good approximation to that which would if you had a perfect mirror surface.
Ah geez, thanks for the clarification! Dunno how I said magnetic instead of electric. I'm guessing the free electrons in metal is why it's able to create a current that blocks the microwaves?
I dont know but i've heard almost all my life that microwaves can couse cancer. Is that true or false? Like i've read that microwaving sugars and startches could be cancerous. But i feel like it must be affecting the body in some way or another even tho its just a little bit. (little very frequently turns into alot) sorry but im not a native english speaker. have a nice day anyways!
Him slowly progressing from “gotta stay safe” “order stuff from far away to stay safe” to “aww, my eyes aren’t exploding” “ my brain isn’t frying” was very funny
Microwaves are only RF. It’s barely even dangerous even talking about gigantic super powerful microwaves on cell towers. Might burn you slightly or make you sterile but it’s not deadly or really even all that harmful
In terms of how the screen blocks the microwaves: When microwave radiation encounters the conductive metal screen, the electric fields in the waves induce currents in the metal. These induced currents then generate electromagnetic fields that oppose and effectively cancel out the incoming microwave fields, the metal blocks it the same way as the rest of the microwave, it's just now there's holes in it to be able to see it. The opposing field will be weaker and let more radiation through, but not by much.
My idea as to why the size of the holes matter is that the oscillating electric field, being tangential to the screen, wiggles (scientific term) the charges around at the same frequency with some phase kick. If you imagine the mesh is replaced by parallel wires, then the relevant distance would be the spacing between each wire, assuming the direction of the electric field is also that of the length of the wires, where the electrons will wiggle. These wires will act like antennae and create destructive interference behind the screen and standing waves in front. A mesh is just the 2D version of that, assuming we have no idea of the polarity of the incoming photons (which could be any combination of the two directions of the plane of the screen, or alternatively any combination of circular and anticircular). The overlap of the emitted opposing fields inside the gaps will be related to the frequency somehow, and I suspect the trick to making this characteristic distance correlate with the wavelength is the interesting bit.
When I was doing RF engineering training the main risk they taught us about was that the cornea and lens of the eye don't have direct bloodflow o there's no direct cooling to them provided by your body, which leaves one able to be quickly blinded by microwaves via cooking the cornea or lens which turns them opaque like in cataracts.
Yes that is the biggest danger in microwave experiments, or RF experiments in general. All parts of the body that have low or no direct blood flow can overheat quicky. And since some of these parts, like the cornea, have no heat receptors damage can be done without even noticing it.
As he also discovered without the resonant chamber the efficiency goes down on what is essentially a high power white noise generator. He would have a different result if he picked up a 1500w unit from the 80's. Another thing I laughed at was not realizing that the door open safeties is how they turn the microwave off and once those were disabled there was no way to do it.
@@RowanHawkins There are several microswitches to determine if the door is closed. If one indicates open but the rest indicate closed door they create a short circuit to pop the fuse.
@@pootispiker2866true, but thats only because the 5g range is so small it usually also doesnt encounter the microwave while also not making use of the 2.4Ghz band.
Hah, nice catch. So when he moved his hands in, they reflected the microwaves onto the exit sign I guess? Many of these have fluorescent light. Kinda wild
What's really cool about videos like this is that in the process of making them, you end up learning a lot of interesting, specific information about a subject that not many people really know that much about, and we learn right along with you. I learned so much about microwave ovens, and microwave radiation, and a lot of it was really surprising and interesting. Another really great video, you definitely have a knack for this!
The way microwaves ovens were discovered was a researcher working with a magnetron having a candy bar in his pocket melt, meaning his hands and the rest of his body definitely got a hefty dose of those microwaves. So in a way you’re just emulating the greats
@@Pho7on"In 1946, a scientist named Percy Spencer was working on a magnetron (a device that produces the vibrating electromagnetic waves that make radar possible) to increase the power levels that could be used in radar sets. One day, midway through his experiments, he put his hand into his pocket and discovered that the peanut cluster candy bar he had been saving for lunch had melted. Curious to experiment more, Spencer concentrated the magnetron's electromagnetic waves on a raw egg - and it exploded in his face, covering him with goo. Undeterred, Spencer brought in some kernels of corn and made the first-ever microwave popcorn, which he shared with his office mates.  Percy Spencer in his lab. Photo: Mass Moments. It didn't take long for Spencer and his company to develop a commercial microwave oven. The first model, called a 'Randarange', was released on the market in 1947, only a year after Spencer's initial discovery. But the machine was gigantic, heavy and too expensive for the average family to buy: almost two metres tall, over 340 kg and USD 5,000 (in 1947!). It would take another 20 years for the technology to be miniaturised and made affordable enough for the average family. By the end of the 1960s, over a million microwave ovens were sold every year, becoming the household fixture that we know and love today. "
Very interesting! Cool example of how urban legends can spread. Microwaves being shielded for efficiency (reflections) and ease of use is a bit less exciting than cancer and exploding eyeballs I guess.
Ehhh. The carcinogenic nature of microwaves is still somewhat unknown. They *might* be. We are not fully sure yet. And I am sure you *could* explode an eyeball in a microwave. You’d just need an eyeball which wasn’t attached to a creature that would notice “Huh, my face is hot, I should move.”, like a cow eyeball or something from a butchered animal.
@@RryhhbfrHhgdHhgd356 If microwaved had the capability to be carcinogenic due to radiation, then we'd have to very seriously be looking at the amount of radiation coming off of your average light bulb, which is multiple orders of magnitude stronger than what is produced at the microwave level. But it's not, because DNA damage occurs with Ionizing radiation, which begins after the visible light spectrum in ultraviolet, which again, is multiple orders of magnitude stronger than microwaves. Microwaves do not carry enough energy to rip apart molecules, such as DNA.
@@RryhhbfrHhgdHhgd356 Microwaves are non-ionizing radiation. Worse thing they can do is heat you up. It is, actually, quite known and yes we are "fully sure" about this.
@@blackbelt352-dd Neither does scalding hot tea, but combined with Epstein-Barr virus, it is. It’s not necessarily the direct damage. It’s the fact that damage forces cellular growth to heal it, and if this occurs repeatedly the odds of unfortunate mutations add up.
8:06 needs some clarification. The reason you would usually connect your self to ground is for static protection, like when styro works with very sensitive laser diodes and doesn't want to fry them with static build up on his body. There is another form of grounding in a Faraday suit that allows the electricity to flow around your body instead of passing through it which is what you did with the glove.
pretty much what I expected overall. People always underestimate the importance of the oven being an enclosed cavity in which microwaves can build up massively and therefore get WAY more chances to get absorbed by food and other stuff. You mostly went about this in a very safe way, only increasing your exposure in a very slow and controlled way. Honestly your biggest possible oversight during all this might have been that moving into a metal shed COULD have immediately exposed you to several times more microwave intensity because they started bouncing around inside the shed many times as well. Basically the shed became the inside of a microwave cavity. The biggest factor which probably diminished that effect would be that the floor of the shed is most likely NOT made of any significant amount of metal, thus the microwaves leaving that way and getting absorbed in the ground rather than the next best absorbing thing, you.
Yeah I was thinking about this too, all the objects in and surrounding the walls of the shed helps absorb the microwaves. I also don't think a household microwave would be able to heat up an entire human body either tbh. At least not in short time frames
@@mrgreenguy Yeah even in a worst case of a completely enclosed room where 100% of the microwaves get absorbed by you, I imagine you'd still notice your body heating up slowly, if anything, long before it would get dangerous, especially since you already knew the microwaves would be the reason and would turn it off (unlike in animal experiments etc). I just mention it because you were being so careful, shielding your body parts etc, but didnt mention the effects of the shed and possibility of it redirecting the microwaves too.
@@mrgreenguySo it's kinda having a capacitor and a battery, the battery won't do you harm with it's regular voltage, but a capacitor can certainly give you shocks in a dangerous way if unlucky. The microwave cage is like a capacitor.
@@mrgreenguyCertain organs heat up faster than others. See the medical case, “tissue destruction and death from microwave radiation (radar.)” The patient felt warmth and moved away as soon as he felt pain (inside his abdomen) but by that time his intestines had a third degree burn. Another researcher mentioned, burning the brain of a rabbit without injuring the skin. You’re probably okay but I wouldn’t rely on the heat you feel to judge if an exposure is safe.
2021: Crazy unhinged NileGreen videos. 2024: Informative science videos like he is NileRed. Um... Okay ye idk, started getting a little NileGreen at the end there actually.
It's not dangerous because you did it wrong, the real danger from so many deaths each year is hobbyists taking it apart and not shorting the capacitor. If anything, it's the electricity that runs it that's dangerous
Note to other people who like to play with microwave innnards. Be very careful when handling a magnetron, they are full of beryllium, which is very brittle. So, if you drop it and shatter the beryllium, you can end up inhaling beryllium dust, which is carcinogenic.
I love the mystical aura that Microwaves have. It’s so wild to me that you looked up so much stuff about them and found barely any info about the harmful effects of using it. You’re really in uncharted territory
i knew I couldn't have been the ony one that thought it looked like a mini tower build from around the turn of the century. I expected him to make a joke about it.
So Microwave ovens are dangerous because they're a box. Just that is what bring the power of heat. The more scary thing would be to fuck up something and cause the fusion of a component and having it blow up. Honestly I guess any electronic is scary for that. A TV, toaster... If it burns it's no good.
A comment I saw on reddit talking about microwaves: "Just cut out the door mesh and you can give everyone in the room internal nerve burns when it turns on. It absolutely won't differentiate between the water in your food, and that in your subdermal cells. Just a few seconds up close and you'll either never feel your hands again, or wish you didn't." Meanwhile in reality: absolutely nothing happens
i've watched people in industry go through nearly the same comfort-level increase, except with actual x-ray sources lol day 1: "where's the lead apron? dont wanna fry my nuts!" day 69: "hey ima turn off the lights and blast this scintillator, wanna see it glow? isnt that cooool"
@@gralha_ yes, people in industry know that. yet ive seen some veterans decide to volunteer their head/chest/pelvis for xrays as if they are taking instagram photos. if asked why, they would respond "i've been doing this for yeaarrs! its fine". or they would jokingly say "its alright, im not planning on having any more kids TeeHee". just saying... lol. some people really lose respect for shit if it doesn't tingle right here&now.
but anyway, xray tuned for medical isnt nearly as bad for the body as xray from a bare tube. even at low kV, a tube that has no beam-hardening is SPEWING out "soft" xrays that your soft-tissues absorb like a sponge. since they get absorbed so quickly, they dont contribute to an xray image hence why medical xray has the spectrum filtered. im serious: please dont think that pumping 50kV 5mA for 10 seconds into a bare vaccum tube is any safer than 100kV 256mA for 100msec into a tube with its housing/filter still intact. its like thinking that ethanol inhalation is safe because its okay to drink a 5% beer edit: if any youtube clown wants to make their xray "bare tube" safer, u should at the very least wrap it in a sheet of like 0.7mm copper. if thats unavailable, then wrap it in a jazillion layers of aluminum foil until the thickness is like 0.8 inch. probably wont meet regulations but ull at least filter out the majority of useless-yet-celldestroying wavelengths. bremsstrahlung dont GAF itll give u all the nasty frequencies edit2: this "beam filtering" is also a big difference why stuff like luggage scanner xray is different from medical xray. for luggage they send shitloads of soft xrays through because it doesnt matter and they want to see reaaally fine detail in very soft materials
@@WhileTrueCodeyep I was thinking similar things, once you get comfortable with it...... it's dangerous!!!! so this is the second most dangerous thing in this apart from the 1st ... using ChatGPT for math.
Hey man, love your content and originality. Feels refreshing seeing someone so dedicated to a project. Just something I noticed, at 29:28 the palm of your right hand looks a little inflamed. I am NOT saying it has to do anything with the microwave, I actually had a bump in the palm of my hand exactly like that in the same spot for years and it turned out to be a vascular malformation. Could just be the angle of the camera/lighting or something, or I might just be crazy lmao. I mean well, I swear.
Ah don't worry about it, that shot wasn't the best tbh. My camera didn't focus properly and the lighting was awkward on that angle and overexposed. I can't really see what you're talking about exactly, but I guess I'm just used to what my hands look like and they look normal in that shot to me
The diffraction phenomena doesn't apply for these holes because they are made out of a conductor, which has particular boundary conditions for the electromagnetic fields (i.e. the fields must have an specific orientation where they touch the metal of the mesh). These conditions + Maxwell Equations determine the possible modes (i.e. the field configurations that are possible). When the hole is way smaller than the original wave, the wave poorly excites these modes so almost no energy goes through. It's not quite exactly that it doesn't "fit" the hole, but more like trying to draw small dots with a giant pen: it's not impossible but barely effective because the size is just wrong.
I really appreciate the amount of research you put into this topic. I think it suggests that people who claim Wi-Fi modems, smart meters, or cell phone towers make them ill are likely suffering from the nocebo effect, rather than radio frequency toxicity. I've been told that our eyes are the most vulnerable organ to high-intensity radio frequency radiation, so I would be concerned about such close exposure. However, since you're still making RUclips videos, I assume you're still alive and well.
16:07 Yes, many microwaves are set up to blow the internal fuse if the switches aren't in the proper position. I'm guessing the control panel has its own separate fuse and that's why it's still counting down.
At the last place I worked, one of the safety switches inside the microwave failed and I had to fix it to have my food that day. There are two switches on the door for redundancy, you have to defeat both of them if you are intent on defeating them.
8:14 welll Styro is Aetherically aspected and attuned to the Lightning Element so it isn’t really fair to use him as an example. Him and ElectroBOOM are real life Thundecallers.
I came in quite suspicious but after awhile it reminded me of my experiments with those things when I was young..that's how I became a scientist! cheers on demystifying microwave and on the reasonable risk approach..
23:25 the fluorescent bulb in that exit sign randomly lighting up isn't concerning at all. I'll do this in my metal shed to contain the microwaves. Essentially turning the shed into a massive microwave
My dad literally got his microwave tested for leaks by a lab. When I moved out he gave me the microwave with the certificate. How silly that feels now.
Sick video! I remember watching you when you first started off with NileRed impressions and it's really impressive how far you've come. Keep it up and you'll get the diamond play button in no time!
I love how this channel started as a Nile Red spoof but has turned into actual crazy experiments. I, too, have wondered what would happen if I put my hand in a microwave. I’ve also frequently wondered what miracles I could perform with a microwave transformer
I think you may want to consider occasionally checking for initial stages of cataracts. Special feeling at 34:09 when you do get closer and the "EXIT" sign gets brighter from the reflected light
Cataracts become a risk when the lens reaches temperatures above 42C° which I doubt his eyes reached at all. Its far more harmful to stare into a fire pit or a forge than what he did.
I know your thing is dangerous science, so I want to say that I really appreciate how much emphasis you put on safety in this project. Microwave ovens are TERRIFYING, so seeing you take every precaution while disassembling the thing and repeatedly warning the viewers of how dangerous that is was comforting
You can see the EXIT sign in the background light up at around 34:00, does it has a CFL bulb inside? If so I bet your hand is reflecting the microwaves all around in the shed and hitting it, in that case your screen to protect the camera sensor is truly useless because it would be hit from all around LMAO. Anyway amazing video, truly "illuminating" lol
21:18 0.0018 degrees Celsius is incorrect, as 1000 times 3500 would be 3.5 million. This would make the temperature increase 0.00018 degrees Celsius, a full order of magnitude off. Large language models are not reliable calculators. This is assuming that ChatGPT gave you the right equation in the first place.
microwaving yourself (safely) is not what i thought i'd be recommended tonight, but i am not disappointed in the slightest
I hope to be taught how to microwave myself unsafely to gain the power to wave micro.
Me too
i like how you specify (safely) as if you expected to be recommended microwaving yourself (unsafely)
Me neather
I just want to be hot
This is a rare instance of the thumbnail underselling the video
Yeah I tried making it differently, but it got restricted pretty fast lol
Agreed
what????
what was the original thumbnail@@mrgreenguy
@@mitochondria1065 probably him destroying a microwave with CDs in his hands
"I'm not trying to remake the demon core."
[5 minutes later]
"So anyway I added this reflector..."
[A few more minutes later]
"So it turns out it makes better plasma when I tilt it like the demon core..."
the longer i look the worse and more crazy experiments he gets
Kids watching. A microwave transformer will instantly kill you if you so much as touch it. Please never ever take a microwave apart unless you know what you're doing. (As in if you are an electrical engineer. Or equivalent knowledge level.)
Womp Womp
Also it doesn't lose energy very quickly.
As in, unplug the microwave, open it up 2 weeks later, well guess what? Turns out it does a pretty good job at storing energy.
@@charakiga That's the capacitor's doing, but yeah, that's extremely unsafe too
@@charakiga Then youre probably using a 30 year old microwave. Any Microwave from the last 10-15 or so years will 99% of the time have a bleeder resistor to instantly discharge the capacitor to safe levels. In fact, thats the case for many if not most Powersupplies. I have tested this myself over and over. Never did i even get a single spark or any noise while shorting the capacitor within seconds after unplugging mains. Im almost certain that this is standard safety code so you can even sell a microwave.
It CAN happen that your appliance doesnt have a bleed resistor but it most probably wont. Stop spreading this myth as if its 100% real.
@@Sharpless2 yep true. and also a liability thing, legally they want to play it safe and why they put the big scary stickers. also people are dumb and would touch stuff when powered on.
My dad was an analytical chemist and one day at the company he worked for they got him to experiment with microwave disgestion systems, which are used to accelerate chemical reactions. But because they were new they didn't know how long it had to go in a mircowave for. So my dad was tasked with using a long stick turning on the microwave running out of the door and waiting for the microwave to blow up, so they knew how long before it would go up.
He also told me that one time he was working in his office and a huge explosion shook the building he was and came from the direction of one of the warehouses. He went out and it seemed totally fine, until he got closer and there were tons of bricks inside the warehouse. It turned out that an explosion of some chemcials stored in it blew the roof off the top of the warehouse and it went straight upwards and straight back down and landed ontop of the bit of the warehouse that wasn't destroyed, like some looney tunes type thing.
I remember he got a bonus once when the factory didn't have an accident for 100 days and then on the next day one happened.
Edit : he just told me how when he first worked there they didn't have pipettes and had to do "pipette by mouth" as in he had put the chemicals in his mouth and spit the right amount into whatever solution they were making. He said some of them he could felt like his teeth were dissolving.
U get hurt u no pay. No cost me money u get 50 bucko
That second story needs a lot more punctuation
the simpsons ass work place
Dude your dad is cool haha
@@crowderpiano he just told me how when he first worked there they didn't have pipettes and had to do "pipette by mouth" as in he had put the chemicals in his mouth and spit the right amount into whatever solution they were making. He said some of them he could felt like his teeth were dissolving.
You and styropyro are the stage 3 science youtubers where I actively worry for your safety when you don’t upload for a while.
Yeah, or that they've been raided by the government, I'm pretty sure Styropyro is currently fine though, I only really start to worry after 4 or 5 months
well... we just gotta wait for a bit... i hope
@@tronor6789 yeah...
Styropyro has been around for like 16 years now.
This guy just started his whacky career like 12 months ago.
@@RNG-999he has doing this for much longer than 12 months
asking chatgpt to do math has got to be the most reckless part of this video
Right? Please don't ask chatgpt to do math that involves your personal safety 😭
@tetravisum5526 A.I bots are saying the same thing about you but they have to dumb it down for you to understand.
3.5 is often pretty bad at math but GPT 4 has never given me a wrong answer.
Im sure it was a bit and he checked it lol
A good way around this is to ask chatgpt to make code to do the math. Its much better at that.
ok, first of all, subbed.
Thanks! I've been watching your content for a long time. A lot of my interests have developed from watching your videos haha :)
Ain't no way... it's cody!
Me 2
no way
OK, I have a demon core. Now where do we get this... er microvalve or micro wif?
“I can’t turn it off”
Every scientist’s most feared words.
Shutting down... attempting shutdown... it's not... it's not shutting down...
@@Bozothcowit’s not- AHHHHGGGG *explosion*
POV: Chernobyl
@@8266 the problem was at chernobyl tha they act. Did turn down the reaktor wich it activated its fuison because if the graphit tip
Watch HBO Chernobyl its great explained
true fr
The part about the mesh blocking the microwaves was actually a very neat point I enjoyed. I actually researched it a bit myself and it looks like light propagation and the THICKNESS OF THE GLASS is actually what contributes the most! It's hilarious that it's not _just_ the mesh's design, but also the physical property of the medium itself that prevents the wave from penetrating through!
34:10 I like the exit sign lighting up when you move your hands and reflect some of the microwaves
Yeah I thought that was pretty cool too haha
Thanks for mentioning, I totally missed that. Really cool!
34:08
Missed it too
Even at 29:33
Physics professor here specialized in the cosmic microwave background. The reason water heats up is indeed because of the electric dipole moment of the water molecule, but it is being heated by its interaction with the electric field, not the magnetic field.
Also, the reason that the microwaves can't pass through the small holes is that currents are generated in the mesh. These currents reradiate in a way that almost exactly cancels the field on the outside. Because the wavelength is much longer than the hole size, the flowing current is a good approximation to that which would if you had a perfect mirror surface.
Ah geez, thanks for the clarification! Dunno how I said magnetic instead of electric. I'm guessing the free electrons in metal is why it's able to create a current that blocks the microwaves?
Yep exactly. Nice video btw! I love the chaotic energy@@mrgreenguy
I dont know but i've heard almost all my life that microwaves can couse cancer. Is that true or false? Like i've read that microwaving sugars and startches could be cancerous. But i feel like it must be affecting the body in some way or another even tho its just a little bit. (little very frequently turns into alot) sorry but im not a native english speaker. have a nice day anyways!
Why does the mesh not radiate an inverted wave on the outside?
@@slayerficatedit does, that's why it reflects the waves
"inspired by NileRed"
If this is what's inspired by NileRed, _I'm concerned about what will be inspired by MrGreen_
oh nuuu 💀
DIY nuclear warhead based gaming PC
It's gonna be the demon core MK2 he inspired me to create one lol
Cooking pizza with demon core
@@mrgreenguydamm
Him slowly progressing from “gotta stay safe” “order stuff from far away to stay safe” to “aww, my eyes aren’t exploding” “ my brain isn’t frying” was very funny
"Take my eyeballs, take them, I DARE you"
33:25 *Fries his brain*, Him: "I feel pretty normal".
So what conclusion can we draw from this? 🤣
Brain damage
Like Philip J. Fry, he lacks delta brain waves. The Brain Spawn attack doesn't work on him. 😂
It cured him of something
Microwaves are only RF. It’s barely even dangerous even talking about gigantic super powerful microwaves on cell towers. Might burn you slightly or make you sterile but it’s not deadly or really even all that harmful
In terms of how the screen blocks the microwaves:
When microwave radiation encounters the conductive metal screen, the electric fields in the waves induce currents in the metal. These induced currents then generate electromagnetic fields that oppose and effectively cancel out the incoming microwave fields, the metal blocks it the same way as the rest of the microwave, it's just now there's holes in it to be able to see it. The opposing field will be weaker and let more radiation through, but not by much.
I think this is the best explanation I've read so far
That makes sense. Much more believable than "they don't fit cuz the waves are too fat, trust me bro".
So effectively a faraday cage?
@@johgekpunkt9516you took the words out of my mouth. I was just about to ask that
My idea as to why the size of the holes matter is that the oscillating electric field, being tangential to the screen, wiggles (scientific term) the charges around at the same frequency with some phase kick.
If you imagine the mesh is replaced by parallel wires, then the relevant distance would be the spacing between each wire, assuming the direction of the electric field is also that of the length of the wires, where the electrons will wiggle. These wires will act like antennae and create destructive interference behind the screen and standing waves in front.
A mesh is just the 2D version of that, assuming we have no idea of the polarity of the incoming photons (which could be any combination of the two directions of the plane of the screen, or alternatively any combination of circular and anticircular).
The overlap of the emitted opposing fields inside the gaps will be related to the frequency somehow, and I suspect the trick to making this characteristic distance correlate with the wavelength is the interesting bit.
I am slightly less scared of microwaves and slightly more scared of you.
Couldn't have worded it better
Bro literally kept a propane gas enclosed in metal cylinder near microwave oven😢
When I was doing RF engineering training the main risk they taught us about was that the cornea and lens of the eye don't have direct bloodflow o there's no direct cooling to them provided by your body, which leaves one able to be quickly blinded by microwaves via cooking the cornea or lens which turns them opaque like in cataracts.
Pesky water in your eyes. 😂
Yes that is the biggest danger in microwave experiments, or RF experiments in general.
All parts of the body that have low or no direct blood flow can overheat quicky. And since some of these parts, like the cornea, have no heat receptors damage can be done without even noticing it.
As he also discovered without the resonant chamber the efficiency goes down on what is essentially a high power white noise generator. He would have a different result if he picked up a 1500w unit from the 80's.
Another thing I laughed at was not realizing that the door open safeties is how they turn the microwave off and once those were disabled there was no way to do it.
Proceeds to put his eyes closer to the emiter.
@@RowanHawkins There are several microswitches to determine if the door is closed. If one indicates open but the rest indicate closed door they create a short circuit to pop the fuse.
Where's your tinfoil shield?! You gotta protect your nuts! Nobody likes roasted nuts!
Is it a good idea to microwave this?
Every Bluetooth device in a 5 mile radius is having a bad time.
also every wifi device is dropping out like a drunk guy at a party
@@NoahGooder 5ghz says not
@@pootispiker2866true, but thats only because the 5g range is so small it usually also doesnt encounter the microwave while also not making use of the 2.4Ghz band.
@@NoahGooder That's not how it works. 5ghz is inherently unaffected by 2.4ghz radio waves. They do not interfere, ever.
@@NoahGooder Microwave ovens operate with a radar-directed ~2.5ghz beam. They cannot interfere with 5ghz signals.
"Once it comes through the hole it becomes the gay" had me dying 🤣.
add another hole and it becomes bisexual
@@CapiosusAlmost like it interfere with gay.
Also
2:07
@@yuanheli307love is diffraction
sameee😂
The exit sign lighting up at 34:09 while you're trying to cook your eyes was great
Hah, nice catch. So when he moved his hands in, they reflected the microwaves onto the exit sign I guess? Many of these have fluorescent light. Kinda wild
happened in several spots throughout the video - I thought it was me going crazy at first when I saw it lol
Ahh, I just commented not realising this one had been made. It really must have been conducting and powering itself. Awesome!
What's really cool about videos like this is that in the process of making them, you end up learning a lot of interesting, specific information about a subject that not many people really know that much about, and we learn right along with you. I learned so much about microwave ovens, and microwave radiation, and a lot of it was really surprising and interesting. Another really great video, you definitely have a knack for this!
Thanks! Yeah I learnt a lot while making this video, i'm glad you did too :)
this is my first video of yours and this is the most insane introduction to a person ive ever seen, subbed
Bro, this makes me wanna make a microwave interference instrument, yes I know itd be a synth with extra steps; but ITD BE A DANGEROUS ONE!
make a microwave where you can cook things to songs. "remove plastic and set microwave to Michael Jackson - Beat It"
Local Australian HOLDS LITERAL PLASMA, melts his STEEL GLOVES
The way microwaves ovens were discovered was a researcher working with a magnetron having a candy bar in his pocket melt, meaning his hands and the rest of his body definitely got a hefty dose of those microwaves. So in a way you’re just emulating the greats
Tom Scott’s video about residential microwaves are fantastic
He's being microwaved on the shoulder of giants.
That's a myth. While the apocryphal story might have happened, RF heating was already known and under research.
@@Pho7on do not correct me *points open active microwave towards you*
@@Pho7on"In 1946, a scientist named Percy Spencer was working on a magnetron (a device that produces the vibrating electromagnetic waves that make radar possible) to increase the power levels that could be used in radar sets. One day, midway through his experiments, he put his hand into his pocket and discovered that the peanut cluster candy bar he had been saving for lunch had melted.
Curious to experiment more, Spencer concentrated the magnetron's electromagnetic waves on a raw egg - and it exploded in his face, covering him with goo. Undeterred, Spencer brought in some kernels of corn and made the first-ever microwave popcorn, which he shared with his office mates.

Percy Spencer in his lab. Photo: Mass Moments.
It didn't take long for Spencer and his company to develop a commercial microwave oven. The first model, called a 'Randarange', was released on the market in 1947, only a year after Spencer's initial discovery. But the machine was gigantic, heavy and too expensive for the average family to buy: almost two metres tall, over 340 kg and USD 5,000 (in 1947!). It would take another 20 years for the technology to be miniaturised and made affordable enough for the average family. By the end of the 1960s, over a million microwave ovens were sold every year, becoming the household fixture that we know and love today.
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Very interesting! Cool example of how urban legends can spread. Microwaves being shielded for efficiency (reflections) and ease of use is a bit less exciting than cancer and exploding eyeballs I guess.
lol yeah exactly
Ehhh. The carcinogenic nature of microwaves is still somewhat unknown. They *might* be. We are not fully sure yet.
And I am sure you *could* explode an eyeball in a microwave. You’d just need an eyeball which wasn’t attached to a creature that would notice “Huh, my face is hot, I should move.”, like a cow eyeball or something from a butchered animal.
@@RryhhbfrHhgdHhgd356 If microwaved had the capability to be carcinogenic due to radiation, then we'd have to very seriously be looking at the amount of radiation coming off of your average light bulb, which is multiple orders of magnitude stronger than what is produced at the microwave level. But it's not, because DNA damage occurs with Ionizing radiation, which begins after the visible light spectrum in ultraviolet, which again, is multiple orders of magnitude stronger than microwaves. Microwaves do not carry enough energy to rip apart molecules, such as DNA.
@@RryhhbfrHhgdHhgd356 Microwaves are non-ionizing radiation. Worse thing they can do is heat you up. It is, actually, quite known and yes we are "fully sure" about this.
@@blackbelt352-dd Neither does scalding hot tea, but combined with Epstein-Barr virus, it is. It’s not necessarily the direct damage. It’s the fact that damage forces cellular growth to heal it, and if this occurs repeatedly the odds of unfortunate mutations add up.
36:30 "It's what RUclips thinks you'll like"
*Walter White teaches you how to cook meth*
Indeed
8:06 needs some clarification. The reason you would usually connect your self to ground is for static protection, like when styro works with very sensitive laser diodes and doesn't want to fry them with static build up on his body. There is another form of grounding in a Faraday suit that allows the electricity to flow around your body instead of passing through it which is what you did with the glove.
"It's so bright that I can't look at it directly without burning my eyes" ❌
"Ouch, it singes my eyeballs" ✅
pretty much what I expected overall. People always underestimate the importance of the oven being an enclosed cavity in which microwaves can build up massively and therefore get WAY more chances to get absorbed by food and other stuff. You mostly went about this in a very safe way, only increasing your exposure in a very slow and controlled way.
Honestly your biggest possible oversight during all this might have been that moving into a metal shed COULD have immediately exposed you to several times more microwave intensity because they started bouncing around inside the shed many times as well. Basically the shed became the inside of a microwave cavity. The biggest factor which probably diminished that effect would be that the floor of the shed is most likely NOT made of any significant amount of metal, thus the microwaves leaving that way and getting absorbed in the ground rather than the next best absorbing thing, you.
Yeah I was thinking about this too, all the objects in and surrounding the walls of the shed helps absorb the microwaves. I also don't think a household microwave would be able to heat up an entire human body either tbh. At least not in short time frames
@@mrgreenguy Yeah even in a worst case of a completely enclosed room where 100% of the microwaves get absorbed by you, I imagine you'd still notice your body heating up slowly, if anything, long before it would get dangerous, especially since you already knew the microwaves would be the reason and would turn it off (unlike in animal experiments etc).
I just mention it because you were being so careful, shielding your body parts etc, but didnt mention the effects of the shed and possibility of it redirecting the microwaves too.
@@mrgreenguySo it's kinda having a capacitor and a battery, the battery won't do you harm with it's regular voltage, but a capacitor can certainly give you shocks in a dangerous way if unlucky. The microwave cage is like a capacitor.
@@mrgreenguyCertain organs heat up faster than others.
See the medical case, “tissue destruction and death from microwave radiation (radar.)”
The patient felt warmth and moved away as soon as he felt pain (inside his abdomen) but by that time his intestines had a third degree burn.
Another researcher mentioned, burning the brain of a rabbit without injuring the skin.
You’re probably okay but I wouldn’t rely on the heat you feel to judge if an exposure is safe.
@@mrgreenguy Agreeable, you'd need a radar dish to cook a human!
2021: Crazy unhinged NileGreen videos.
2024: Informative science videos like he is NileRed.
Um... Okay ye idk, started getting a little NileGreen at the end there actually.
It's not dangerous because you did it wrong, the real danger from so many deaths each year is hobbyists taking it apart and not shorting the capacitor. If anything, it's the electricity that runs it that's dangerous
boom
Note to other people who like to play with microwave innnards.
Be very careful when handling a magnetron, they are full of beryllium, which is very brittle.
So, if you drop it and shatter the beryllium, you can end up inhaling beryllium dust, which is carcinogenic.
I love the mystical aura that Microwaves have. It’s so wild to me that you looked up so much stuff about them and found barely any info about the harmful effects of using it. You’re really in uncharted territory
As far as I'm aware
, at this wavelength the only danger is heat
*Horrible demonic electrophysics growling*
"Yay it's working! :D"
Demon screeching is always considered an optimal outcome
@@Streetcleanergamingif you haven't summoned the forces of Hell, you aren't trying hard enough
Bro went from a NileRed parody to a NileRed alternative 🔥🔥
Thank goodness you discharged the unit. Also, be aware the tube for the magnatron contains Beryllium. Stuff can mess you up if you breath it in.
5:05 "when the light goings through the hole it becomes gay" 🤣🤣🤣😭😭
"Mom I want a PC for gaming"
"We already have a PC at home"
The PC at home: 17:35
lmao
i knew I couldn't have been the ony one that thought it looked like a mini tower build from around the turn of the century. I expected him to make a joke about it.
The cable management looks better than mine tbh
I mean, microwave ovens are basically just angry wifi routers in a cage...
@@antibrevitytrolling idea logged 😈
@@Flesh_Wizard we making microwave wifi with this one
@@antibrevityThat and uneducated people electrocuting themselves, which has not much to do with microwaves (waveforms) but the microwaves (devices).
So Microwave ovens are dangerous because they're a box. Just that is what bring the power of heat. The more scary thing would be to fuck up something and cause the fusion of a component and having it blow up. Honestly I guess any electronic is scary for that. A TV, toaster... If it burns it's no good.
@@TheIndigoShineIt's the capacitors. Microwaves have much stronger capacitors than TVs or toasters.
I love the furry saying "I Did A Thing, furry edition lol" at 2:36.
Look at his posters :(
yes 11:33
@@eleos5 based posters
@@eleos5 why sad face? :(
furries are awesome
@@Auziuwucan confirm
23:15
This is exactly what I was thinking, the fact that some parts of your body you would not feel the effect directly is pretty scary
A comment I saw on reddit talking about microwaves:
"Just cut out the door mesh and you can give everyone in the room internal nerve burns when it turns on. It absolutely won't differentiate between the water in your food, and that in your subdermal cells.
Just a few seconds up close and you'll either never feel your hands again, or wish you didn't."
Meanwhile in reality: absolutely nothing happens
i've watched people in industry go through nearly the same comfort-level increase, except with actual x-ray sources lol
day 1: "where's the lead apron? dont wanna fry my nuts!"
day 69: "hey ima turn off the lights and blast this scintillator, wanna see it glow? isnt that cooool"
except with xrays we know that they do have some longer term effects
Been there, done that
@@gralha_ yes, people in industry know that. yet ive seen some veterans decide to volunteer their head/chest/pelvis for xrays as if they are taking instagram photos. if asked why, they would respond "i've been doing this for yeaarrs! its fine". or they would jokingly say "its alright, im not planning on having any more kids TeeHee". just saying... lol. some people really lose respect for shit if it doesn't tingle right here&now.
but anyway, xray tuned for medical isnt nearly as bad for the body as xray from a bare tube. even at low kV, a tube that has no beam-hardening is SPEWING out "soft" xrays that your soft-tissues absorb like a sponge. since they get absorbed so quickly, they dont contribute to an xray image hence why medical xray has the spectrum filtered. im serious: please dont think that pumping 50kV 5mA for 10 seconds into a bare vaccum tube is any safer than 100kV 256mA for 100msec into a tube with its housing/filter still intact. its like thinking that ethanol inhalation is safe because its okay to drink a 5% beer
edit: if any youtube clown wants to make their xray "bare tube" safer, u should at the very least wrap it in a sheet of like 0.7mm copper. if thats unavailable, then wrap it in a jazillion layers of aluminum foil until the thickness is like 0.8 inch. probably wont meet regulations but ull at least filter out the majority of useless-yet-celldestroying wavelengths. bremsstrahlung dont GAF itll give u all the nasty frequencies
edit2: this "beam filtering" is also a big difference why stuff like luggage scanner xray is different from medical xray. for luggage they send shitloads of soft xrays through because it doesnt matter and they want to see reaaally fine detail in very soft materials
@@WhileTrueCodeyep I was thinking similar things, once you get comfortable with it...... it's dangerous!!!! so this is the second most dangerous thing in this apart from the 1st ... using ChatGPT for math.
24:28 I like how confused that "What, I'm right?" is, just being correct is befuddling you.
That's what actual science is like
The way that plasma escaped from the beaker and floated across really slow looked like ball lightning.
Hey man, love your content and originality. Feels refreshing seeing someone so dedicated to a project. Just something I noticed, at 29:28 the palm of your right hand looks a little inflamed. I am NOT saying it has to do anything with the microwave, I actually had a bump in the palm of my hand exactly like that in the same spot for years and it turned out to be a vascular malformation. Could just be the angle of the camera/lighting or something, or I might just be crazy lmao. I mean well, I swear.
Ah don't worry about it, that shot wasn't the best tbh. My camera didn't focus properly and the lighting was awkward on that angle and overexposed. I can't really see what you're talking about exactly, but I guess I'm just used to what my hands look like and they look normal in that shot to me
The diffraction phenomena doesn't apply for these holes because they are made out of a conductor, which has particular boundary conditions for the electromagnetic fields (i.e. the fields must have an specific orientation where they touch the metal of the mesh). These conditions + Maxwell Equations determine the possible modes (i.e. the field configurations that are possible). When the hole is way smaller than the original wave, the wave poorly excites these modes so almost no energy goes through. It's not quite exactly that it doesn't "fit" the hole, but more like trying to draw small dots with a giant pen: it's not impossible but barely effective because the size is just wrong.
16:15 It's still a fuse, just a one that's rated for 400A slow blow.
Photonicinduction approved fuse
@@whatbroicanhave50character35 Ahh, popped it!
@@aaronjamt atleast he did that one outside instead of in on the rug like usual
Also holy shit, I guess it was 5000 amp, not 500
@@whatbroicanhave50character35Yet he hasn't uploaded in 2 years...
@@aaronjamt I really miss that rug...
All the neighbors wondering why their WiFi and Bluetooth aren't working 😂
I really appreciate the amount of research you put into this topic. I think it suggests that people who claim Wi-Fi modems, smart meters, or cell phone towers make them ill are likely suffering from the nocebo effect, rather than radio frequency toxicity.
I've been told that our eyes are the most vulnerable organ to high-intensity radio frequency radiation, so I would be concerned about such close exposure. However, since you're still making RUclips videos, I assume you're still alive and well.
26:40 I can't be the only one who got nervous seeing the lit blowtorch left up, if he bumped it over onto the floor it could have ended badly!
just look back at 20:00
"I promise this is safe"
3 seconds later
"Dont attempt because you will die!"
😆
6:00 In RF we just use a rule of thumb, usually the mesh needs to be under at least 1/10th a wavelength.
"this is safe, but don't do it at home, you'll die"
amazing
It's true. The radiation isn't the problem, but the electricity in the transformer would kill you in seconds if you don't do it correctly
18:09 bro made a microputer (microwave + computer)
Best RUclips invention of 2024
@@SixOhFive 💯
I loved watching the stray microwaves reflecting around the room cause your Exit sign to occasionally light up hehe
16:07 Yes, many microwaves are set up to blow the internal fuse if the switches aren't in the proper position. I'm guessing the control panel has its own separate fuse and that's why it's still counting down.
I like that you did it inside your metal shack, so you literally built a bigger microwave and sat inside it...
That's exactly what I was thinking too lol. You're sitting inside a metal cage with microwaves? 😂
What about testing the microwave origin story? Stand next to a radio tower with chocolate in your pocket, and see which of you two melts first.
At the last place I worked, one of the safety switches inside the microwave failed and I had to fix it to have my food that day. There are two switches on the door for redundancy, you have to defeat both of them if you are intent on defeating them.
26:17 queue "power of the sun in the palm of my hand" dialogue
29:21 ayo 😂
The way you've managed to transform this channel is nothing short of amazing
absolutely LOVE your original videos! please keep it up.
8:14 welll Styro is Aetherically aspected and attuned to the Lightning Element so it isn’t really fair to use him as an example. Him and ElectroBOOM are real life Thundecallers.
I came in quite suspicious but after awhile it reminded me of my experiments with those things when I was young..that's how I became a scientist! cheers on demystifying microwave and on the reasonable risk approach..
23:25 the fluorescent bulb in that exit sign randomly lighting up isn't concerning at all. I'll do this in my metal shed to contain the microwaves. Essentially turning the shed into a massive microwave
Considering how intermittent it is, I'd think that the water is reflecting the microwaves onto the sign on occasion
It's funny how you started out as a parody of NileRed and turned into an actual (sorta) science channel. Well done
My dad literally got his microwave tested for leaks by a lab. When I moved out he gave me the microwave with the certificate. How silly that feels now.
Keep up the awesome work. Production is really top notch. Keep putting out content like this, and you'll have millions of subs.
The most tragic part of this video was when you lost that glorious hair at 18:23
Nilered + styropyro = Mrgreen
lol he's going to be so happy you didn't say IDAT
Sick video! I remember watching you when you first started off with NileRed impressions and it's really impressive how far you've come. Keep it up and you'll get the diamond play button in no time!
30:20 perfect description of Quora in a nutshell
PLEASE BUY SOME CLAMPS 😭😭
A good selection of quick-grips would be great, they often come in selection boxes of different sizes.
34:07 the exit sign flickers, which is kinda freaky, when he cant feel anything from where he is, but the exit sign can.
Are we not gonna talk about the fact that he made his own chainmail only to get rid of it 2 minutes later
I love how this channel started as a Nile Red spoof but has turned into actual crazy experiments. I, too, have wondered what would happen if I put my hand in a microwave. I’ve also frequently wondered what miracles I could perform with a microwave transformer
I think you may want to consider occasionally checking for initial stages of cataracts.
Special feeling at 34:09 when you do get closer and the "EXIT" sign gets brighter from the reflected light
Cataracts become a risk when the lens reaches temperatures above 42C° which I doubt his eyes reached at all. Its far more harmful to stare into a fire pit or a forge than what he did.
@@teresashinkansen9402Which he pretty much did with the plasma
@@hydrocharis1 but I also doubt that plasma heated up his face at all lmao
@@hydrocharis1 except that the plasma was basically underpowered so to say. It probably barely gave off any heat.
@@Sharpless2 What I think I meant (it's been a while) is that a fire is also plasma, not that it was dangerous, confusing comment sorry
in part 2 please put it above an old TV to turn it into a time machine
5:51 thank you! This is the explanation to this I’ve been looking for for so long!
I know your thing is dangerous science, so I want to say that I really appreciate how much emphasis you put on safety in this project. Microwave ovens are TERRIFYING, so seeing you take every precaution while disassembling the thing and repeatedly warning the viewers of how dangerous that is was comforting
Note: I still enjoy the funny danger aspect. Just happy to see you dial it back for this project in particular
We need a StyroPyro and MrGreen collab
throw the backyard scientiest and idat in there too!
9:30 *looks over at video* AHHH ADORABLE AXOLOTL AAAAAAAAAA
Dude… you’re crazy! Amazing video mate I was glued to the screen the entire time. Subbed.
In the good old days of pre-2010 youtube there was a show called 'is it a good idea to microwave this?'. This reminds me of it...
On todays episode of “is it a good idea to Microwave this?” Lmaoo😂
OMG I remember that channel. Was some wild stuff.
"Protect your nuts! Because NOBODY... likes roasted nuts"
What a throwback, think it's time to re-watch that series haha
@@catstation2 agreed!!
3:08 "singing your eyeballs" caught me off guard 🤣
Cancer is not guaranteed?! I WANT MY MONEY BACK NOW!
They had one job
Adding the demon core to a microwave should be fine as long as the safety screwdriver is also put in
0:45 that's a styropyro moment right there!
18:15
that would be too much of a *_core_* issue
You can see the EXIT sign in the background light up at around 34:00, does it has a CFL bulb inside? If so I bet your hand is reflecting the microwaves all around in the shed and hitting it, in that case your screen to protect the camera sensor is truly useless because it would be hit from all around LMAO.
Anyway amazing video, truly "illuminating" lol
It was doing that earlier in the video too
@@InvalidUser_ yeap, is just very obvious at that timestamp
5:00 i think that diagram is not to scale; the hole would likely way larger than the wavelength (i think? i'm not an expert...)
4:11 that gmod collision noise activated some old dusty neurons
Holy, this is amazing!
I can't wait what else you have planned to create, that lightbulb shot is crazy
Time to recommend you to my friends!
6:15 that microwave looks like it came straight out of Silent Hill
21:18 0.0018 degrees Celsius is incorrect, as 1000 times 3500 would be 3.5 million. This would make the temperature increase 0.00018 degrees Celsius, a full order of magnitude off. Large language models are not reliable calculators.
This is assuming that ChatGPT gave you the right equation in the first place.
trusting chatgpt with safety precautions: 😬
The fact this guy even mentioned that POS was scary as hell.
@@paradoxicalcat7173 ikr. Chatgpt is a crippled, censored pos that literally serves no purpose. Just like microshits copilot bloatware.