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Re:Ask HN: Does your microwave interfere with Bluetooth? Min... by itishappy on Thursday October 05, 2023 @05:39PM (#37784620)
> Is there some fractional-wavelength propagation?

"Propagation" is probably not the right word, but fractional wavelengths can "leak" some amount of field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evanescent_field

Re:Ask HN: Does your microwave interfere with Bluetooth? Min... by londons_explore on Thursday October 05, 2023 @11:03PM (#37786740)
Notably, that field is powerful enough that microwave doors need to be about an inch thick. The rest of the inch is just empty space and a sheet of plastic to stop you putting your fingers into the evanescent field.

Unfortunately there were a few microwaves sold recently in Europe which forgot that design element, and if you pointed at food while cooking it, you would cook your fingers too.