Roy Lewallen wrote:
What remains for
the people promoting the notion of waves of average energy propagating
like voltage and current waves to show is how their theories can explain
the resistor dissipation in the very simple circuit I used.

Zero power dissipation in the source resistor is prima
facie evidence of "total destructive interference" in
the direction of the source as described by Hecht on
page 388 of "Optics", 4th edition. You see, optical
physicists don't have the luxury of dealing with voltages
and currents. They are forced to deal with power densities
and those irradiance equations work just as well for RF
as they do for light. The power equation describing the
dissipation in the source resistor is:

Pfor + Pref - 2*SQRT(Pfor*Pref) = zero

which is in perfect agreement with your calculations.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com