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Old January 11th 08, 03:42 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Cecil Moore Cecil Moore is offline
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Default Standing morphing to travelling waves, and other stupid notions

On Jan 10, 8:54 pm, Jim Kelley wrote:
Technically, they're just spatial interference patterns, so of course
they don't propagate energy. They're like any other spatial
interference pattern in that regard.


Thus Hecht's suggestion that they don't deserve to be called waves. I
think they should be called illusionary waves.
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73, Cecil, w5dxp.com