Locksmithing and Security » sainsbury http://www.clapham-locksmiths.co.uk/blog Security advice from a working locksmith and safe engineer Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:43:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Digital Microwaves! http://www.clapham-locksmiths.co.uk/blog/2010/02/25/digital-microwaves/ http://www.clapham-locksmiths.co.uk/blog/2010/02/25/digital-microwaves/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:40:05 +0000 The Locksmith http://www.clapham-locksmiths.co.uk/blog/?p=793 The jaw-dropping antics of the marketeers know no bounds. Sainsburys have for sale in their stores–roll of drums–digital microwave ovens. Hmm. Cooking your food via a stream of numeric values. Interesting. And there was silly old me thinking that microwaves pretty much had to be, well, waves–elecromagnetic waves.

Perhaps, however, Sainsburys’ promotions department are aware of the dual nature of electromagnetic radiation and of quantum theory. They are proposing that ultimately microwaves are not continuous but quantized, and are therefore not zillions of light-years off the mark in using the term digital, only a mile or two off the mark.

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