Gene Fuller wrote:
Those reward traveling waves do not merely cancel at some "match point".
They cancel everywhere. In other words they do not exist.

That's impossible, Gene, since those two cancelled waves originate
at opposite ends of the matched antenna system, one at the mismatched
load, and one at the physical mismatch at the Z0-match point. Your
explanation requires instantaneous action at a distance. Those two
waves are coherent but they do not suffer from quantum entanglement.

Please feel free to try again. The question is: What reverses the
direction and momentum of the energy reflected from a mismatched load?
Saying that reflections from a mismatched load don't exist is simply
denying reality. We know they must exist in order to cause standing
waves which obviously exist. Your argument contains logical contradictions.
To the best of my knowledge, mine doesn't.

The model was set up to include these wave components, but the solution
comes back to say that those components do not really have a non-zero
amplitude. No harm done; this sort of thing happens all the time in the
solution of science and engineering problems.

Again, you are talking about a net solution which is useless in
determining what is happening in real time at the component wave level.
If net solutions are all you have to offer, you have nothing to offer
for this component discussion.

Try hauling your ox back out of the ditch. There's a whole world out there.

Dripping water wears away a stone, even brains made of stone. I
intend to keep this up until someone proves me wrong with a
method besides handwaving, lip flapping, and allusions to magic
like your quantum entangled waves above.
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73, Cecil, W5DXP