Tom,

Whenever Cecil gets in a total lather I am reminded of John Belushi in
Animal House. "Were you there when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?"

This entire saga has been greatly extended and quite thoroughly confused
by imprecise and flat-out-incorrect terminology. It probably won't get
better any time soon.

Currents, waves, and fields are used interchangeably as the mood
strikes. Phase shift can refer to almost anything, it seems. Free-space
optics are used as an analog to current in a wire. Descriptions that
almost certainly have little transferability from one human to another
abound, such as "superposed local RF phasors".

Oh well, it's entertaining, at least for a while.

73,
Gene
W4SZ

wrote:

With all the respect I can muster, here we go again Cecil.

Current is current. Voltage is voltage.

[snip]

In every single device we would be able to build, we would never be
able to sort reflected current from forward because current is current.
There really isn't any such thing as current traveling two directions
at one past one point in a system.

You have taken this argument to an absolute dead end, because you
insist current can flow two directions at the same time at one single
point in a system.

You are demanding a measurement method that uses a device that cannot
be built to measure something that does not exist. That is either
humorous, sad, or frustrating. It sure isn't science.

73 Tom