Gene Fuller wrote:
[ It's all math, not physical truth. You still cling to the mistaken
notion that there is something more fundamental about traveling waves
than standing waves. That is simply nonsense. ]

You apparently still cling to the mistaken notion that
standing waves can exist without their forward and
reflected wave building blocks. It is the standing
wave equation that is the math construct that only
exists in the human mind. EM waves cannot stand still.
They must necessarily move at the speed of light.
Anything else violates the principles of relativity.

I don't know Prof. Hecht, but I am confident he
would agree with me completely.

If I see Prof. Hecht, I will be sure to tell him that
you are engaging in mind-fornication with him. :-)

All you have to do to prove that you are right and I
am wrong is to provide an example of an independent
standing wave existing without the underlying forward
and reverse traveling wave components. If you can do
that, as you imply, you will also prove Einstein's
relativity to be wrong. That might be worth a Nobel
Prize.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com