Richard Clark wrote:

wrote:
Maxwell's equations yield answers but give no clue as to the
detailed physical process involved.

Clueless, hmm?

Clueless with respect to the underlying processes. Extremely
accurate with respect to the net answers. Tomorrow I plan to
be in Austin. That statement says nothing about how I plan to
get there.

Here's a quote from Steve's article

Ah, the great satan having been invoked. How'd I peg that so square
on the head?

Does Steve know that you equate him to "the great satan"?

I agree with that statement. But when I ask what happens to the energy
in those two cancelled waves, all I get is silence.

That's all it merits,

Why? It's an honest question. I am absolutely amazed that physicists
and engineers don't know what happens to the energy in canceled waves.
It cannot be destroyed, it cannot stand still, and it's not incident
upon the source. Wonder what happens to it? That's a very simple honest
question.

So Richard, what
happens to the energy in those two cancelled waves? Destroyed? Bleeds
off to a parallel universe? Routed through a black hole for constructive
interference in the opposite direction? The answer is more than obvious.

From those three alternatives drawn from a hat? Three card monte is a
more honest game.

Those are only three ridiculous possibilities. Another possibility is
what the Melles-Griot web page says: The energy apparently "lost" in
the destructive interference of two rearward-traveling reflected waves
is not lost at all. It appears in (coherently joins) the forward-traveling
wave. That's a simple answer to a simple question. Do you have a better one?

And here you told us that maxwell's equations were clueless, answers
that described nothing and no help at all

Maxwell's equations work to obtain the answer as does quantum
electrodynamics. But those answers do not contain clues about the
process. The process components are what is being discussed here.
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73, Cecil, W5DXP