Here is a 'yes' or 'no' technical question for everyone.
Is it possible to measure a phase shift through a wire
or coil using a signal (standing wave current) that
doesn't ever change phase?

There is no "standing wave current". There is only current.
Current can't stand.

Phase difference can be measured in a system that has standing waves,
just as it can in one without standing waves.

The answer to that question is the entire crux of the
argument. If anyone answers 'yes' to that question, please
explain in detail how to accomplish that measurement feat.

Any number of ways, if we disallow the impossible situiation where you
seem to think we can have current "standing still". Direct measurement
methods abound.

First Cecil says:
I thought we had agreed to stop using inuendo to try to
influence a technical argument. The mathematical concepts
are certainly NOT hidden.

Then Cecil does the opposite of what he asks Gene to do:
They are there for all to
understand and accept but are being ignored by certain
individuals.

Cecil first asks Gene to stop using inuendo.
One sentence later, Cecil uses inuendo. :-)

73 Tom