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Su-CC: Investigator site log (Step I)

Project: Ching-Chuan Su (C.-C. Su), local-ether model and "Quantum Electromagnetics", National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Hsinchu, Taiwan.

Run 2026-10-06: first run (no earlier sites.md). Time-capped run (10 min). Web time used: about 6.6 minutes (start 1791325026, last web call 1791325422, Unix seconds). Chrome tab opened and closed by the Investigator. Fallbacks to scripted API access were used where Chrome could not read the page (arXiv, Wayback CDX list) or where Chrome hit a CAPTCHA (Google Scholar "Cited by").

Findings are leads, not verdicts. Per-site notes: research/2026-10-06-{site}.md. Downloads: research/files/.

Site URL First checked Last checked Queries tried Result Recheck? Notes
Su's website (live) http://qem.ee.nthu.edu.tw 2026-10-06 2026-10-06 direct visit negative no Redirects to NTHU EE department home page; site removed.
Wayback Machine https://web.archive.org/ (qem.ee.nthu.edu.tw/*) 2026-10-06 2026-10-06 URL list (Chrome, did not load); CDX index url=qem.ee.nthu.edu.tw/* positive yes 38 archived URLs 2002-2023. Downloaded 6 papers not in folder (f1b EPL 2001 Michelson-Morley; f2b, f3b IEEE AP-S 2001; f2c Found. Phys. Lett. 2006 Riemann force; f2d Barnett experiment 2005; f4b = arXiv physics/0208083), book contents and chapter abstracts (2002), autobio, publish notice. Recheck: index.htm captures 2003-2006 for later changes; coversm.jpg; any book PDF.
Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/ 2026-10-06 2026-10-06 "local-ether" OR "local ether model" Su; Cited-by for EPJC 2001 partial; blocked (CAPTCHA) on Cited-by yes Citation counts: EPJC 2001 46, EPL 2001 32, EPJB 2001 12, AP-S 2000 10. Book PDF listed at scholar.archive.org. Cited-by lists not read.
OpenAlex https://api.openalex.org/ 2026-10-06 2026-10-06 search=local-ether; Su author works; cites: EPJC, EPL, EPJB, JEWA; abstracts; OA locations positive yes About 20 works by others cite Su, incl. Field 2019 and Kipreos 2024 (IJMPA), Gift 2012/2021, Marsen 2019, Persson 2021, TWSTFT papers 2015-16, Springer GNSS handbook chapter 2017, SAR synchronisation 2024-25.
Crossref https://api.crossref.org/ 2026-10-06 2026-10-06 query.author=Ching-Chuan Su, 1999-2012 positive no Bibliography with DOIs; last record 2006 (IEEE Trans. Magn. railgun; Found. Phys. Lett.).
arXiv https://arxiv.org/ (API) 2026-10-06 2026-10-06 abs:ether AND abs:local AND au:Su; au:Su_C_C; au:Ching-Chuan_Su; all:"local-ether"; au:C_C_Su positive yes Chrome page read not permitted; API used. New: physics/0208083 (downloaded). physics/0512179 identified. Nothing after 2006.
Google web search https://www.google.com/ 2026-10-06 2026-10-06 9 queries (see Keywords tried) positive yes Death "c.2007" only via Marsen; NTHU alumni e-news May 2008 announces book (March 2008); ISBN 9789574110971 dates 2005 vs 2008; no Comment/Reply found.
viXra https://vixra.org/ 2026-10-06 2026-10-06 abs/2105.0110; author/james_marsen positive yes Marsen 2021 (Su's work compiled; "passed away in approximately 2007") and Marsen 2019 (orbital Michelson-Morley proposal; Brillet-Hall residual reading). Both downloaded. Disqus comments not read.
Natural Philosophy Wiki (CNPS) https://wiki.naturalphilosophy.org/index.php?title=Ching-Chuan_Su 2026-10-06 2026-10-06 page read positive yes Sympathetic secondary page (edited Jul 2026): bibliography incl. railgun and Eur. J. Phys. papers; Beckmann 1986 precedent; Marsen CNPS talk 12 Jun 2021.
CosmoQuest Forum (ATM) https://forum.cosmoquest.org/ (thread 3750752) 2026-10-06 2026-10-06 thread read positive (minor) no Nov 2025 advocacy post; closed without discussion.
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tbT8Wh6R24 2026-10-06 2026-10-06 title only partial yes Marsen CNPS talk 2021; transcript not reviewed.
Semantic Scholar API https://api.semanticscholar.org/ 2026-10-06 2026-10-06 4 title searches (Barnett, railgun/Riemann, Riemann-Lorentz, explicit definitions) blocked (HTTP 429 rate limit) yes Retry in Chrome.
ccsenet.org / scirp.org (open-access PDFs) see research note 2026-10-06 2026-10-06 OA links from OpenAlex positive no Gift 2021 (GPS ether; endorses Su's ether hierarchy) and Wu and Tsao 2019 (cites Su EPL) downloaded.
NTHU alumni e-news http://my.nthu.edu.tw (E-News, 9 May 2008) 2026-10-06 2026-10-06 via Google only; page did not open not reached (time limit) yes Primary university notice of the 2008 book. Read for author status.
Taiwan thesis database (NDLTD) https://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw not reached (time limit) yes Theses advised by Su (needs Chinese name).
NTHU institutional repository / EE department archive https://nthur.lib.nthu.edu.tw ; https://web.ee.nthu.edu.tw not reached (time limit) yes Faculty record, retirement/death notice, Chinese name.
IEEE Xplore https://ieeexplore.ieee.org not reached (time limit) yes AP-S 2000-2003 papers; IEEE Trans. Magn. 2006 railgun paper.
APS meeting abstracts https://meetings.aps.org not reached (time limit) yes Su's March/April meeting abstracts 2000-2002.
HyRead e-book https://ebook.hyread.com.tw/bookDetail.jsp?id=19899 not reached (time limit) yes 2008 book (no purchase; check preface/metadata only).
scholar.archive.org https://scholar.archive.org not reached (time limit) yes Listed full-text PDF of the book.
Brillet and Hall 1979 (Phys. Rev. Lett.) publisher / library not reached (time limit) yes Source of the ~34 Hz residual Su and Marsen discuss.
Beckmann, Einstein Plus Two (1987) / Galilean Electrodynamics archive.org etc. not reached (time limit) yes Priority 3 precedent of the local-ether idea.

Keywords tried

  • Google (Chrome): "local-ether" Su "comment" OR "reply" Europhysics Letters OR "Eur. Phys. J."; "Ching-Chuan Su" "local-ether" -arxiv; "Ching-Chuan Su" 清華大學 電機 教授; 清華 電機 蘇清泉 OR 蘇清川 以太 "Quantum Electromagnetics"; "Ching-Chuan Su" "passed away" OR obituary OR "late Prof" Tsing Hua; Marsen "Michelson-Morley Type Experiment Should be Performed in Low Earth Orbit" vixra; 9789574110971; "Ching-Chuan Su" advisor OR 指導教授 thesis "Tsing Hua" ether OR Sagnac OR "Galilean"; Beckmann "local ether" OR "local-ether" "Einstein Plus Two" gravitational field Su GPS
  • Google Scholar: "local-ether" OR "local ether model" Su
  • OpenAlex: search=local-ether; author works; cites:W2103434109 (EPJC 2001); cites:W2121905501 (EPL 2001); cites:W1995955844 (EPJB 2001); cites:W2107612049 (JEWA 2002)
  • Crossref: query.author=Ching-Chuan Su 1999-2012
  • arXiv API: abs:ether AND abs:local AND au:Su; au:"Su_C_C"; au:Ching-Chuan_Su; all:"local-ether"; au:C_C_Su
  • Wayback CDX: qem.ee.nthu.edu.tw/*
  • Semantic Scholar (blocked): 4 title searches listed above
  • Next runs, not yet tried: Su's Chinese name (find it first, e.g. from NTHU records, the 2008 book's Chinese catalogue entry or govbooks.com.tw); "C. C. Su" + "Sagnac" + "GPS" (critiques); "local ether" + "Sagnac" + "comment"; Kelly / Hatch / Wang Ruyong + Su; "Su" + "ECI frame" + "Michelson-Morley" + 2001; "railgun recoil" + Su; "Barnett experiment" + "modified Lorentz force"; 3.39 micron He-Ne + "local ether"; Chinese: 局部以太, 量子電磁學, 清華大學出版社 2008.

Leads for review

1. The inventor's own work

  • EPL 56, 170-174 (2001), "Reinterpretation of the Michelson-Morley experiment based on the GPS Sagnac correction" (f1b, downloaded) [web: Wayback; read: p.1]. Su's own Michelson-Morley argument: Earth's orbital motion has no influence on earthbound propagation; rotation gives a second-order fringe shift too small to observe. Bears on claim 1; fills a gap named in claims.md.
  • arXiv physics/0512179 (2005), "Reexamination of Barnett's Experiment Based on the Modified Lorentz Force Law" (f2d, downloaded) [read: p.1]. New testable prediction: non-zero induction on a stationary capacitor outside a rotating solenoid, or with a short solenoid. Bears on claims 4 and 5.
  • Found. Phys. Lett. 19(2) (2006), "Connections Between the Riemann and the Lorentz Force Laws" (f2c, downloaded): a relative-speed (Riemann/Weber-type) force law identical to Lorentz in the quasi-static case, obeying action-reaction. Bears on claim 4; links Su to the Weber-Riemann electrodynamics tradition.
  • IEEE AP-S 2001 Digest papers on Galilean-invariant Lorentz force and Maxwell equations (f2b, f3b, scans downloaded). Claim 4, earliest versions.
  • arXiv physics/0208083 (2002), modified Schrödinger equation with Earth's rotation (downloaded). Claim 3.
  • Not yet obtained: IEEE Trans. Magn. 42, 2193 (2006) railgun recoil paper; Eur. J. Phys. 22 (2001) explicit field definitions; JEWA 15, 945 (2001) "On the Sagnac Effect in Wave Propagation"; Electron. Lett. 36 (2000) radar Doppler; the full 2005/2008 book (scholar.archive.org lists a PDF; HyRead e-book).
  • Book contents (2002 web version) list "Unsolved and Predicted Propagation Phenomena: stellar aberration, one-way-link rotor, second-order radar Doppler shift" [read: contents.htm], matching claims 1 and 5.

2. Supporting information by others

  • S. J. G. Gift (2021, Applied Physics Research 13(1)) argues from GPS timing that light speed is constant in the ECI frame (an "Earth-bound ether"), with orbital-motion effects in the sun-centred frame, and calls Su's nested-ether proposal "a reasonable working hypothesis" [read: Gift 2021; web: OpenAlex]. Gift's earlier papers (2006; 2012 viXra on interplanetary tracking) are on the same point. Bears on claim 1. Gift is a proponent; his reading of GPS is his characterisation.
  • J. Marsen (2019 viXra; 2021 viXra; CNPS talk 2021): advocate. Proposes a Michelson-Morley experiment in low Earth orbit (signal from ~7.6 km/s) and in solar orbit (~30 km/s) as a decisive test, and reads the 1979 Brillet-Hall residual at twice the table rotation rate as consistent with the Earth-rotation signal Su predicts [read: 1906.0336]. Bears on claim 5 (Su's 62 Hz vs ~34 Hz item).
  • Engineering use of Su's EPL formulation of the ECI-frame Sagnac correction: TWSTFT papers (Jing and Dong 2015; Jing and Guang 2016, IEEE IFCS), Springer GNSS Handbook chapter "Basic Observation Equations" (Hauschild 2017), SAR synchronisation (IEEE GRSL 2024, 2025) [web: OpenAlex]. How they use it (reference for the correction vs endorsement of the interpretation) is unknown; read next run. Bears on claim 1.
  • Petr Beckmann's local-ether proposal (1986; Einstein Plus Two, 1987; journal Galilean Electrodynamics): light propagates relative to the dominant local gravitational field. Described by Marsen and the Natural Philosophy Wiki as the same postulate, reached independently by Su [web]. Su's EPJC 2001 text in the folder does not cite Beckmann [read: grep of extracted text]. Bears on claim 1.
  • J. H. Field (2019, IJMPA 34, 1930014): preferred frames for light propagation and time dilation near a gravitating body, Sagnac and Hafele-Keating; cites Su [web: OpenAlex abstract]. Mainstream-journal treatment of the same frame question (claims 1, 3).
  • E. T. Kipreos (2024, IJMPA): an alternate transformation without differential simultaneity is compatible with current relativistic experiments [web: OpenAlex abstract]. Same principle as Su's absolute time with a preferred frame; cites Su. Bears on claims 1, 3, 5.
  • Others citing Su: Persson (Physics Essays 2021, Sagnac), Tran (2022), Kovac (2024, 2025), Scalera (2024), Khokhlov (2010), Fiscaletti and Šorli (2015), Weng (2018, 2021), Wu and Tsao (J. Mod. Phys. 2019) [web: OpenAlex].
  • Marsen's "Tron Theory" (2018) describes its ether as "very similar" to Su's model [web: Google snippet].

4. Historical record

  • Su's published record stops in 2006 (Crossref, arXiv, Wayback). Marsen (2021) states Su "passed away in approximately 2007" and that the NTHU website was removed [read: Marsen 2021]; this rests on one advocate source so far, and no obituary or university notice has been found. Competing explanations for the silence after 2006: death (Marsen's account); illness or retirement; withdrawal from publishing after limited reception. Deciding records: NTHU EE department or alumni notices 2007-2008, Taiwanese newspaper obituaries, NTHU personnel records (all need Su's Chinese name).
  • The book: ISBN 9789574110971 registered with a 1 Feb 2005 date (isbn.tw; Amazon.com.au "publisher Ching-Chuan Su"), while the NTHU Press edition is dated 1 March 2008 (govbooks, sanmin) and was announced in NTHU alumni e-news on 9 May 2008 [web]. In 2002 Su's site said publication was "in preparation" [read: publish.htm]. If Su died c.2007, the 2008 edition was posthumous; who saw it through the press is unknown. Read the alumni e-news item and the book's front matter.
  • Reception: no published Comment or Reply on Su's EPJC/EPL papers was found in this pass (one Google query; Scholar Cited-by blocked). A 2025 CosmoQuest "Against the Mainstream" thread on the book closed with no discussion [web].