Cecil Moore wrote:
Gene Fuller wrote:
I should have know better than to read this with a cup of coffee in my
hand. I just snorted coffee all over my keyboard.

Gene, I've got an experiment for you. Go to:

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/j...ons/index.html


and set one phase to 0 and the other phase to 180 degrees.
Then get an index card and cover up everything to the
left except one point on each wave. All you see is those
two single points moving up and down. That gives you a
visual idea of how s11(a1) and s12(a2) originate and are
canceled at a Z0-match *point*. Plot those points back
in time and you will have a history of the canceled waves
from which you can compute average power density as
|s11(a1)|^2 and |s12(a2|^2.

Cecil,

You are going to pull a brain muscle by stretching so much. Are you
suggesting that two wiggling points on a web page are the key to
understanding the universe?

Here's a thought experiment for you. Read the message by Tom, K7ITM,
where he copied a quote from physicsforums.com. See if you can figure
out how those waves you insist are created and then quickly canceled
(delta-t later) might have never existed in the first place. Hint: waves
don't interact with each other, but they do interact with materials
containing electrons. (I believe that covers quite a few materials.)

73,
Gene
W4SZ