Kelly-AG: Investigator sites log

Run 1: 2026-10-04 (first run; no prior sites.md). Time-capped run: web time about 3.5 minutes by date +%s (start 1791146706, last web call about 1791146890). Browsing was done in Chrome (own tab, closed at the end); small files were fetched with curl. No logins, no CAPTCHAs.

Keywords tried

• "A. G. Kelly" Sagnac "uniform motion" (Google)
• "Kelly" "Challenging Modern Physics" Hafele Keating Sagnac engineer Ireland (Google)
• Wang Zheng Yao Langley 2003 "uniformly moving fiber" Sagnac Physics Letters A (Google)
• Vigier 1997 "Physics Letters A" Sagnac effect photon mass Kelly (Google)
• "Pioneering engineer who helped transform the ESB" Kelly Irish Times (Google)
• Einstein 1914 Harress experiment "Astronomische Nachrichten" Sagnac Einstein mention (Google)
• inventor:(Alphonsus Kelly) before:priority:20060101 (Google Patents)
• author:"AG Kelly" Sagnac OR relativity OR "speed of light" (Google Scholar)
• conspiracyoflight.com Michelson-Gale Marett Kelly (Google)
• "Generalized Sagnac effect" Wang Zheng Yao Physical Review Letters 2004 fiber optic conveyor linear (Google)
• "Irish Times" 1996 Kelly Einstein relativity Sagnac letters engineer "Institution of Engineers" (Google)
• arXiv API ti:Generalized AND ti:Sagnac AND au:Wang_R (no hits; found via Google instead)

Not yet tried (for next runs): "Alphonsus Gabriel Kelly"; "Al Kelly" ESB Sagnac; "Kelly" "Institution of Engineers of Ireland" monograph Sagnac; "HDS Energy" Kells/Celbridge (company registers, CRO Ireland); "Time and the Speed of Light: A New Interpretation" 1995; Kelly "Phys. Essays" 13 616; "Galileo Back in Italy" Bologna 1999 proceedings; Dufour Prunier 1942 Sagnac; Pogany 1928 Annalen; Harress Knopf 1920; Michelson Gale 1925 Astrophysical Journal; Bilger 1995 ring laser Christchurch; Post 1967 Rev. Mod. Phys.; Silberstein 1921 JOSA; Turner 1979; CCIR report clock synchronisation Sagnac; GB family member of DE1528915; Irish/German-language searches (Sagnac-Effekt gleichförmige Bewegung Kelly).

Leads for review

1. The inventor's own work

• IEI Monograph No. 2, "A New Theory on the Behaviour of Light" (Feb 1996), saved at research/files/. It states the principle behind claims 2, 3 and 5 more fully than the project paper: light generated on Earth follows the Earth's orbit and gravitational field but not its spin, and time and distance are absolute. Reviewers should note that "c relative to the laboratory" (project paper) and "c in an Earth-centred non-spinning frame" (Monograph 2) differ for a laboratory on the spinning Earth (claims 2, 4). [web]
• Kelly 2000, "Hafele & Keating Tests; Did They Prove Anything?" (saved), uses the 1971 USNO/PTTI report. Per-clock raw results he gives: East -196/-54/+166/-97 ns, West +413/-44/+101/+26 ns, against the published -59/+273 ns averages. Bears on claim 3 (SR's role) as his wider programme. [web]
• Further Kelly papers on the same theme to obtain: "Sagnac effect contradicts special relativity" (Infinite Energy, 2001); "The Sagnac Effect and the GPS synchronization of clock-stations" (Bologna 1999); "Synchronisation of Clock-Stations and the Sagnac Effect" (Selleri ed., Open Questions in Relativistic Physics, 1998); Phys. Essays 13, 616 (2000); Monographs 1, 3 and 4; the book Challenging Modern Physics (2005); his GED 16(6) 2005 paper. These would date the undated project paper. Our copy's PDF was generated 16 Apr 2011, after his death (claims 1-6). [web]
• Monographs 5 and 6 (Faraday unipolar induction experiments, 1998), saved: his own apparatus and experiments; peripheral to Sagnac. [web]
• Patent DE1528915A1 (siphon, 1965; BE/GB/NL family): his engineering work, not the Sagnac claims. [web]

2. Supporting information by others

• Wang, Zheng, Yao, Langley, Phys. Lett. A 312, 7-10 (2003), and Wang, Zheng, Yao, PRL 93, 143901 (2004), both saved. In a fibre-optic conveyor, a uniformly moving segment of length Δl at speed v contributes Δt = 2vΔl/c², "whether the segment is moving uniformly or circularly", independent of refractive index. This is the primary experimental basis of claim 1. Reviewers should note that the loop is still closed, with the source and detector co-moving. [web]
• J.-P. Vigier, Phys. Lett. A 234, 75-85 (1997), a non-zero photon mass interpretation of Sagnac, cites Kelly's 1995 IEI monograph. A professional physicist built on Kelly's analysis (claims 2, 3). [web]
• Ian J. Cowan (National Standards Authority of Ireland), In Memoriam, GED 16(6) 2005: says Kelly's analyses were "essentially correct" and refers to Cowan's own 2003 GED paper. Cowan is a sympathetic colleague, not a neutral party (claims 2, 3). [web]
• Doug Marett (conspiracyoflight.com, 2010) independently recomputes Michelson-Gale as an ordinary Sagnac test (expected 0.2364 against measured 0.230 ± 0.005), with sin(latitude), matching Kelly's claim 4. He cites Kelly and Wang together. [web]

3. Closely related work

• Marett's own fibre Sagnac experiments (vixra 1506.0002; "Detecting Earth's rotation through space using a large area Sagnac interferometer", 2011; "The Sagnac Effect: Does it Contradict Relativity?", GSJ 5993) (claims 1, 4). [web]
• Klauber (1999), non-time-orthogonality of rotating frames; Selleri (Natural Philosophy Society abstract "Eight Proofs of Absolute Simultaneity" cites Kelly). These are preferred-frame and absolute-simultaneity readings of Sagnac (claims 2, 3, 5). [web]
• Follow-ups to Wang's "generalized Sagnac effect": Huang 2021 (Eur. Phys. J. D, linear-motion sensor), the SCIRP "one-way interferometer", the GSJ "Analysis of the Phase Difference in a Fiber-Optical Conveyor" (claim 1). [web]
• Essen (1977, Creation Research Society Quarterly 14, 46), an earlier Hafele-Keating critique cited by Kelly. [web]

4. Historical record

• Biography confirmed by an independent newspaper (Irish Times obituary, 20 Aug 2005): ESB career, PhD 1966, "much academic debate, some of it acrimonious". [web]
• The 1996 Irish Times correspondence (months of letters, mainstream opposition, Kelly's open offer of a public debate "never taken up" per Cowan) is described in one sympathetic source; the letters themselves are not yet found. This is the record of how the claims were received (target: Irish Times Archive). [web]
• Claim 6 (Einstein's silence): Einstein published a 1914 note in Astronomische Nachrichten 199 rebutting Harzer's anti-relativity reanalysis of Harress's rotating-prism (Sagnac-type) experiment, per Wikipedia and a bibliography snippet. This record bears directly on claim 6; whether Einstein ever named Sagnac or Michelson-Gale is still open. [web]
• Hafele 1971 report (Proc. 3rd PTTI Meeting, pp. 261-288), the raw record behind Kelly's Hafele-Keating critique. [web]