"chillermfg" wrote in message
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| Watch MythBusters. The guys took out 5 magnetrons from (duh) 5 microwaves,
| aligned them all to "air at the same target in a makeshift microwave. As
| they measured the microwave radiation from different points, what they
| recorded was in fact startling to them. The microwaves cancelled each
other
| out. The likelihood of the magnetrons starting at the exact same point of
| the sine wave is very slim. The misalignment of the waves as they converge
| causes a disturbance to the individual waves in turn reducing the overall
| "effectiveness" of the microwave radiation.

If you hooked 5 AC generators in parallel and started them up at random
points in time you would get poor results also. I suspect they might sync
themselves eventually but who knows?

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