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2026-10-04: forum.aethercosmology.com (file uploads)

Reached via Google Scholar links. Result: positive. - https://forum.aethercosmology.com/uploads/short-url/2XX7qZcG8k9GCROwpheSgQFzGr2.pdf saved as research/files/kelly-sagnac-uniform-motion-aethercosmology.pdf. Thirteen pages, with extracted text word-for-word identical to the project's Kelly_2.pdf (pdftotext word streams match; the binary files differ). PDF metadata: Creator "Microsoft Office Word 2007", CreationDate 16 Apr 2011. This is the date the PDF was made, not necessarily the date the paper was written. Kelly died in 2005, so the 2011 PDF is a later conversion or upload [web, file metadata]. - https://forum.aethercosmology.com/uploads/short-url/dFqnmdoIhgUmhNxOWnL9uICOzvB.pdf saved as research/files/kelly-1996-new-theory-behaviour-of-light-monograph2-aethercosmology.pdf. This is IEI Monograph No. 2, "A New Theory on the Behaviour of Light", February 1996, ISBN 1 898012 17 2, 18 pages.

Monograph No. 2: points read [web; file saved]

  • Abstract: light generated on the Earth "travels with the Earth on its orbital path around the Sun, but does not follow the motion of the Earth as it spins upon its axis"; "time and distance are absolute, not relative"; the speed of light is "not ... in all circumstances, independent of the speed of its source"; light "travels with the Earth's gravitational field"; neutrons and electrons behave similarly.
  • He cites "a very accurate Michelson & Morley test" as having yielded an East-West vs North-South difference (which test is to be identified from the text; Jaseja et al. 1964 masers and Shankland et al. 1955 are discussed on p.3).
  • The same numbers as the project paper: one fringe needs "but 13 m/s" for a 1 m radius disc; Sagnac recorded 0.07 fringe; Pogany (1928) 1.8 fringes; Michelson-Gale 269 runs ranging -0.04 to +0.55, the bulk between 0.17 and 0.36 fringe. He cites Michelson (1897) on a 200 ft x 50 ft East-West circuit, and Michelson's 1904 derivation of the same formula Sagnac later used.

Bearing on the claims

  • Claim 2 (light at c relative to the lab): Monograph 2 states the underlying principle more fully: a frame that follows the Earth's orbit and gravitational field but not its spin, an Earth-centred non-rotating frame. Reviewers should weigh the project paper's "relative to the laboratory" wording against this: for a laboratory on the spinning Earth the two are not the same.
  • The 0.07-fringe figure bears on the deep read's question about Sagnac's disc area (0.86 vs 0.0866 m²).