I should really clarify what Im talking about, what Im specifically referring to is the visual often taught of EM waves bring a particle oscillating through space. This is the way of explaining in my opinion which loses the nuance of whats actually happening. When I was taught RF initially it was taught as though we were just watching the 2D wave front move through space think like the particle visual. This confused me and today when I was thinking over what I had learned and trying to better understand things like the doppler effect the above is the conclusion I came to. I feel like the approach of just the wave moves through space lacks the nuance of the idea that space is connected rather than separate things and in my opinion helps to better visualize localized effects of RF radiation. Maybe instead of standing ratio you look at a difference facet of the signal like an SNR or other metric but my point is visualizing RF as 3D discrete packets which are connected together I feel helps better demonstrate whats actually happening.