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Originally Posted by RenoPaul
... And a theory is still a theory until a working model (not a computer model IMHO) is created from that theory.
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What you don't seem to understand is that models of RF antennas have been tested in the Real World with the design, construction, and use of thousands of different antenna designs. The reason that models are more acceptable than controlled laboratory tests is that models have been proven to be more reliable than laboratory tests over decades. The models are based is Classical Electromagnetic Theory as represented by Maxwell's Equations. James Clerk Maxwell published
A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field in 1865. The great prediction of the theory was that electromagnetic fields propagated as waves through the vacuum at fixed speed. Here we are 147 years later and Maxwell's Classical Electromagnetic Theory works as well as it ever did.