Could you please enlighten us, Cecil, exactly why you think that
anything in all of W8JI's full posting referenced by reference below
where he implicitly or explicitly says anything at all about a lumped
model, or about lumped behaviour? After a careful search, I'm unable
to find it. I only find a discussion of distributed behaviour in a
circuit which extends beyond near field.

Cheers,
Tom

(On the other hand, all the wave and field theory I know was developed
to explain and model the forces among charges, and the reaction--the
motion and accumulation--of those charges as a result of those forces.
That's EXACTLY what I DO see W8JI writing about in the referenced
posting.)


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Cecil wrote in a message whose ID can be provided upon request,
Richard Harrison wrote:
Tom, W8JI wrote:
"Wave theory is just fine, but it has to be understood it is just a
modeling shortcut and the results cannot conflict with the basic laws of
physics,"

The Quantum theory may replace the wave theory some day, but the wave
theory has always satisfied my needs.

W8JI is confused above. Wave theory, i.e. the distributed network
model, is not much of a modeling shortcut. The lumped-circuit
model is the actual shortcut and is a subset of the distributed
network model. The lumped-circuit model conflicts much more
with Maxwell's laws than does the distributed network model
which conflicts hardly at all.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp