John Smith wrote:
And, the standing wave
IS cooking the turkey--in my humble opinion ... you could say, "I
believe in standing waves."

If one thinks about it, one will realize that an unchanging
steady-state standing wave cannot cook the turkey. Cooking
the turkey would require the standing wave to give up energy
and if it does, it is no longer a steady-state standing wave.
All of the joules/sec delivered to the load during steady-
state is from traveling-wave energy whether it be in a
microwave oven or in a transmission line.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com