We know plenty about it. The mechanism for causing cancer is ionizing radiation. The ionization rate for radiation is proportional to (I'll ignore boring constants) Amplitude^N, where N is the least integer such that N omega > - E_0.
Here, E_0 is the energy of the bond the radiation breaks, and omega is the frequency of the radiation. Amplitude is small (you'll be thermally cooked long before Amplitude > 1), so the ionization rate is a small number to the power of large N.
It's virtually unmeasurable for small amplitude and large N. Typically to measure ionization in the microwave regime, one needs to use a microwave resonating cavity.
(I have a paper doing some rigorous math on this topic. The paper itself is not so interesting, but the references might be useful to you. Many of them go into the basic physics of radiation interacting with matter. http://cims.nyu.edu/~stucchio/pubs/dipole_delta.pdf )
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We know plenty about it. The mechanism for causing cancer is ionizing radiation. The ionization rate for radiation is proportional to (I'll ignore boring constants) Amplitude^N, where N is the least integer such that N omega > - E_0.
Here, E_0 is the energy of the bond the radiation breaks, and omega is the frequency of the radiation. Amplitude is small (you'll be thermally cooked long before Amplitude > 1), so the ionization rate is a small number to the power of large N.
It's virtually unmeasurable for small amplitude and large N. Typically to measure ionization in the microwave regime, one needs to use a microwave resonating cavity.
(I have a paper doing some rigorous math on this topic. The paper itself is not so interesting, but the references might be useful to you. Many of them go into the basic physics of radiation interacting with matter. http://cims.nyu.edu/~stucchio/pubs/dipole_delta.pdf )