Richard Clark wrote:

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 12:49:36 -0600, Cecil Moore
wrote:

"All of the photon energy present in these (canceled) waves
must somehow be recovered or redistributed in a new direction, ..."

Was and has been Orthogonal to the direction of propagation - nothing
has changed.

There's only one other direction in a transmission line and that's
back toward the load.

This does not follow from the other.

Moreover, the point being missed by the original correspondent (one
which is obvious from this and other descriptions of the phenomena), is
that no _energy_ is transferred in the direction of totally destructive
interfering waves - a point which I have made repeatedly on this
newsgroup, and which he has steadfastly refused to accept. The
observation that the energy in question must go elsewhere remains obvious.

73, Jim AC6XG