Guys I was asked by Toolofcortex to add my 5 cents to the subject of this discussion.
I don't know what to start from and don't offend anyone of you.
I see a lot of misunderstanding of properties and mechanisms of wave by both conflicting parties.
All of you have good sense in
individually independently mentioned elements of phenomena in question.First you can't take phenomena from
classical mechanics and mix them with phenomena of
quantum mechanics.To avoid your protest let's understand what belongs to what :
Since the end of the 20th century, classical mechanics in physics has no longer been an independent theory.
Instead, classical mechanics is now considered an approximate theory to the more general quantum mechanics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_mechanicsAt first there was classical mechanics only and nobody knew that it will become a part of quantum world.
Quantum phenomena are not explainable by classical mechanics!!!!That is why quantum mechanics rules now!!
At first there was Ether/ aether only and nobody knew that it will become outdated and rejected /exchanged by another modern models.
In my personal opinion in 1918, it was mostly Russian Rebel influenced by lack of education and later caused by historical events of Lenin, Stalin and WW2 time
eliminating imprisoning liquidating teachers , and Eastern Europe was fulled around .
In the effect of it some of Russian Scientists, and/or researchers still believe in
aether
But some of them believe that earth is flat.Russian Scientist Disclose We Live On Flat Earth Under the Firmament! Breaking News!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=24&v=5nvucdKADzw&feature=emb_logo
Lack of educators "eliminated by their regime," and need to slow down in any possible way Western World Progress added lies on the top of other lies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_theorieshere are few gentleman like Solar Lab who have their own opinion and may also be influenced/ "motivated' ,
by the same far "Eastern Mechanisms" to promote physics " their way."
The goal here is to slow down or stop progress heavily popularized by Tariel Kapanadze.
The key figures here on this forum and in physics that are considered to be a marking points or mile stones in our progress
are being seen by some Russian propaganda as immediate discomfort and danger .
They must be stripped from public respect, humiliated or even eliminated.Unofficial figure of 67% is Russian dependency from oil and natural gas sale.
The Russian regime structure holds on money stolen from it and deposited in our
Western world in form of personal accounts and properties.
But future is uncertain and you guys may complicate or destroy that mechanism and that is why
these guys are watching you carefully and interfere with your progress.
They see the end is coming, but they don't want it to end now.
That is why we sometime have human elements drifting your discussion, or flooding it with garbage.
Standing wave (in mechanics) has longitudinal wave properties and is mechanical wave
By that only classical mechanic branch of quantum world can be used to explain it.
Electromagnetic Standing wave (in quantum mechanics) doesn't have longitudinal wave properties and is not mechanical wave
By that
can not be explained by classical mechanic branch of quantum world known as classical mechanics.
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The first mistake that some of you make here is that you mixing in your explanation both worlds -
the quantum and classical mechanics.
Your fights takes good solid piece of theory,that is physically sensed by your senses and you throwing it against something
that belongs entirely to quantum physics - is invisible and only one of your senses can sense it-
your eye and only in the region of
visible light.
And light is electromagnetic wave.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
So let's take classical approach:
Water wave has
-no impedance,
-no inductive and capacitive reactive components,
-no magnetic field .
-no requirement for AC current/ or DC current
-no TE or TM( Transverse magnetic) polarization
and so on.
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You can use some analogy from classical world to visualize behavior of EM wave
but that is as far as you can go.
I will add more later
As strange as it looks like I'm a friend of many Russians. 
Wesley
