Happy Georgia Guide Stone destruction day! 🎉Today, July 6th, is the one year anniversary of their being blown up. 💥
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Which would mean that you don't understand it at all, since DEWs of the laser variety are primarily in the infrared spectrum. Microwave weapons are not anywhere near as powerful as would be required to produce an explosive reaction. And a laser DEW might attempt to melt the rock. No divinity needed for an ordinary explosion.
First, there were no "California DEWs." The fires were strong enough to melt cars.
Hard to say whether even a megawatt-class laser could perform the feat. It could probably melt an area of the rock. But it would have to happen really fast in order to cause the rock to fracture from thermal expansion. Hypothetically, a pulsed laser might be able to impart an impulse, but research into that area dwindled in the 1970s (lots of problems).
When in doubt, a "blunt object" works just fine, and a satchel charge of even dynamite would be dandy.
There are no imaginary weapons, and there are no DEWs at disposal to attempt such an event. The videos showed someone coming up to the stones at night, and leaving---and showed what was clearly an explosion. You might as well imagine the Pixies did it.
I've seen photos of scenes at car fires where the car was essentially destroyed, but other objects "across the street" were untouched. Distance and draft can make the difference between scorch and unscorched. Now you've heard of it.
Dynamite is the most likely possibility, as it is the most commonly available explosive. The "investigation" into the event would have established what? That the explosive was a nitrated organic compound? Any fingerprints? Any footprints? The problem is that you are using too much imagination and not enough hard reason.