A Light Bulb in a Microwave

1. Rhea
   January 11th, 2007 at 3:55 pm

   Scary! But that’s nothing like when microwaves were first out and I didn’t know you couldn’t put foil in them.

2. yayo
   January 11th, 2007 at 4:03 pm

   Hahah… next time record a video ^^

3. Ben
   January 11th, 2007 at 4:39 pm

   It was interesting to see the way the light pulsated on and off as it turned. I imagine it’s related to the information on this page about measuring the speed of light with chocolate chips in a microwave (seriously!).

4. Akiro
   January 11th, 2007 at 6:10 pm

   That chocolate chip link was an interesting explanation of microwaves and how they work…or rather dont work well at cooking things evenly when they don’t spin the food. I gather if you disabled the carousel and position the bulb in the most intensive part of the wavelength it would probably pop quite a bit faster.

5. Alex
   January 11th, 2007 at 6:29 pm

   There’s also a similar method with putty: Link.

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