Keith Dysart wrote:
The cuts changed nothing about the conditions in the circuit.

This reminds me of the guru who asserted that he could
replace his 50 ohm antenna with a 50 ohm resistor
without changing the conditions.

And yet the claim is made that before the cuts there are no
reflections and after the cut there are a bunch. And yet the
conditions in the circuit are EXACTLY the same.

No, conditions are not exactly the same. Before the
cut, there were no reflections. After the cut, there
are reflections. Conditions have changed. I'll bet
the change in the natural noise pattern, which exists
in every system, could be detected at the time of
the cut.

It is no different than a connected capacitor and inductor
which will ring for ever given the appropriate initial
conditions.

If we are talking about things that can happen only in your
mind, why stop with irrelevant ringing assertions? Why not
assert that you can leap tall buildings at a single bound
(in your mind)?
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com