John Popelish wrote:
When you talk about current flowing, you seem to be thinking of current
waves traveling along a conductor. Others seem to be saying "current"
and thinking of charge movement. I think that only the second is
technically correct ...

John, many thanks for some rationality from a cool head.

Conventions aside, that sounds about right. So would you agree
that if there's a forward current of one amp and a reflected
current of one amp, the net charge movement is zero and therefore
the standing wave current is not "going" anywhere? How can something
with a constant fixed phase angle of zero degrees "go" anywhere?

Standing waves involve no net wave travel in either direction, though
anywhere except at the current nodes, charge is certainly moving back
and forth along the conductor, during a cycle.

That's unclear to me. Why can't the E-field and H-field simply be
exchanging energy at a point rather than any net charge moving
laterally?
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