On google, I found a bunch of video of people creating plasma in their microwave, by trapping flame inside a glass cup. Is it really possible? Cause it seems weird. Someone even have a video of creating the plasma with a grap.
Modern technology are too advance, one can never tell if a video is real or computer effect...
I've seen christmas tree lights lighting up in a microwave and I have seen a bar of soap go huge and frothy in a microwave too.
A CD causes arcs of light too.
Obviously DO NOT try this at home.
It is possibly. But do you have links?
And you, cpt Fertile? I'm very interested into those vids.
My friend Harry would be interested in this, he'll probably see the thread sooner or later...
I expect you can, you'd just need to make the flame last while you microwaved it - burning something controlled. Sorry for my lack of knowledge but what do you actually mean by plasma?
Don't forget, peoples - you can mess with your microwave doing this.
Best to do it at a friend's house.
It's also cool if you do the following: Take a grape. Cut it in half. Put each half on a plate next to each other, barely not touching. Microwave. Watch plasma fly.
It's really cool.
how do i edit my microwave so that i dont have to have the door closed to start it?
and what would hapen if i did this? would i get cancer? would the house build up with a slow leak of radiation from the microwave?
if i put a computer in a big microwave and set it to 10 minutes would the computer still work
First of all its easy to make your microwave work while its open just insert something where the door latch goes, that will signal the door closed switch. Second of all DON'T DO IT!!!!! Yes, this would allow microwaves to radiate outside of the microwave, and could most definitely be harmful, and just plain stupid. Some reports of said that microwaves can cause cancer others have said it doesn't but I am pretty sure they all agree it isn't healthy and is very dangerous nonetheless.
And the computer thing, um probably not.
i watched it and WOW 
it looks totally awesome!
but yeah that is definately somethnig NOT to do with your microwave open. Also, it most likely will hurt your microwave if you do it enough.
I can just see it now. Some stupid guy will do it with his microwave open JUST to put it on youtube and his camera ends up exploding, along with the rest of his house | dz9c wrote: |
how do i edit my microwave so that i dont have to have the door closed to start it?
and what would hapen if i did this? would i get cancer? would the house build up with a slow leak of radiation from the microwave?
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I have to believe that you are joking here. I just will not accept that anyone here could really be that foolish. What would happen? Think about what it does to meat. Now, remember that YOU are just meat. Forget cancer over the long term, you are cooking anything nearby. And standing off to the side is not gonna help you much. DO NOT DO THIS or you are likely to be the subject of a Darwin Award.
Side note: There is some reason to think that the Japanese played with using microwaves as a weapon during World War II. Apparently, it was effective on the subjects who were restrained close to it, but was not powerful enough to in actual fighting.
One last time:DO NOT TRY THIS EVERi saw that on a tv show braniacs or something anyway that is really cool but there are so many things you can do with a microwave i wish i had a few spare microwaves to blow up.
i can verify that
cd's do turn all weird and sparky in the microwave
Xmas lights light up (so do normal argon filament ones)
and the bar o soap works great
plasma is hot, very hot. so hot that its most common "storage" method is to be suspended magnetically (not touching anything). your trapped flame thing sounds like it just looks cool, glowy and floaty, but isn't strictly plasma.
The most I've done in amicrowave is break it... lol When I was 7 and the poptart wrappers still had that paper stuff on the outside of the foil, i didn't know you couldn't microwave it and the toaster was broken. I wanted warm poptarts so I microwaved them inside the paper-foil packaging and walked away and we heard a small boom and needless to say, the microwave wouldn't work after that, lol.
This is definently not plasma, it just looks like some sort of combustion.
Plasma is ionized, superheated gas. For example, lightning creates plasma (that is what we see in the flash). A microwave is NOWHERE near powerful enough to create plasma, especially plasma that lasts long enough to combust as it does in the videos.
My guess is that the grape is forming some sort of charged gas that rises and discharges when it hits the roof of the microwave...
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how do i edit my microwave so that i dont have to have the door closed to start it?
and what would hapen if i did this? would i get cancer? would the house build up with a slow leak of radiation from the microwave? |
Fairly easily I should think. Just short the wire in the door catch that tells you when the door is closed. The 'radiation' in a microwave isn't nuclear radiation, it's electromagnetic radiation, like radio waves, light and gamma rays. In the low doses that occur in a microwave it'll probably not be dangerous at all. The radiation doesn't build up'; it only lasts as long as light would, and as for cancer... how about no. I'm genuinely scared by the lack of scientific knowledge on these forums... | simplyw00x wrote: |
| .... I'm genuinely scared by the lack of scientific knowledge on these forums... |
Yeah, me, too. You scare the wits out of me! Dude, those EM waves are at levels that cook meat! What makes you think your meat is any different. The Microwaves heat up material primarily by forcing dipole molecules to rotate and impact on other molecules. Dipole molecules like water, fats, sugars, etc. Stuff that is in YOU. A microwave cooks meat. You are meat. Cooked meat does not function well at all. Do the math.
And, just so you know, there IS a cumlative effect. Not due to radiation but some damage is NOT repaired by the body. The eye is especially effected and cataracts are a known issue.
Again, people, this is one case where the interlocks and protective features are for a real purpose!
DO NOT FOOL WITH THE SAFETY INTERLOCKS ON A MICROWAVE! | Quote: |
| Dude, those EM waves are at levels that cook meat! What makes you think your meat is any different. |
But dude, you can cook meat with infra-red! It just takes a while! Infra-red... like from the sun! O GODS THE SUN WILL KILLS US IN SECONDS LOL. No. Yeah sure sticking your head in a microwave is not a good plan, but as long as you're not staring into it with the door open, you'll live to tell the (stupid) tale. | simplyw00x wrote: |
| Quote: | | Dude, those EM waves are at levels that cook meat! What makes you think your meat is any different. |
But dude, you can cook meat with infra-red! It just takes a while! Infra-red... like from the sun! O GODS THE SUN WILL KILLS US IN SECONDS LOL. No. Yeah sure sticking your head in a microwave is not a good plan, but as long as you're not staring into it with the door open, you'll live to tell the (stupid) tale. |
Whilst it is true that both IR and Microwaves are Non-Ionising forms of radiation (they don't break chemical bonds and are, therefore, not normally associated with cancer), there is significant risk to tissue with un-shielded microwave exposure in the form of thermal damage. This applies particularly to the eyes. | simplyw00x wrote: |
| Quote: | | Dude, those EM waves are at levels that cook meat! What makes you think your meat is any different. |
But dude, you can cook meat with infra-red! It just takes a while! Infra-red... like from the sun! O GODS THE SUN WILL KILLS US IN SECONDS LOL. No. Yeah sure sticking your head in a microwave is not a good plan, but as long as you're not staring into it with the door open, you'll live to tell the (stupid) tale. |
Well, at least you are now saying you think it won't kill you, instead of "it'll probably not be dangerous at all". Of course, the stuff you wrote about infra-red is besides the point. The whole issue with the microwaves is that they do cook quickly. And nobody is yelling that technology is deadly or any other Luddite nonsense. If you stick your hand in a microwave, it is going to start cooking immediately. Inside and out. Not permanent damage instantly, but instant pain, from what I've read. And as both Chris and I have mentioned, the damage to your eyes is a particular worry.
Don't do it. Don't encourage others to do it.
