Wallace-Byran: Investigator sites log
Run 1: 2026-10-04 (first run; no earlier sites.md). Time limit 10 min wall clock; elapsed by date +%s about 4 min (start 1791141611, end 1791141832). Browser: Chrome (claude-in-chrome), own tab, closed at the end. No files downloaded: the useful PDFs are listed by URL in "Leads" for the owner to approve and fetch (research/files/ is empty).
| Site | URL | First checked | Last checked | Queries tried | Result | Recheck? | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| google.com | 2026-10-04 | 2026-10-04 | 8 queries, see Keywords | positive | yes | research/2026-10-04-google.md | |
| General Science Journal | gsjournal.net/Science-Journals-Papers/Author/2378/Bryan,%20Wallace | 2026-10-04 | 2026-10-04 | author page | positive | yes | Reprints of 1969 and 1971 Spectroscopy Letters papers. Author ID 181 is a different person |
| sciliterature.50webs.com | sciliterature.50webs.com/RelativityDebates.htm | 2026-10-04 | 2026-10-04 | index, link page, 1969 PDF | positive | yes | 2nd copy of the 1969 paper (scan, did not render) |
| Natural Philosophy Wiki | wiki.naturalphilosophy.org/index.php?title=Bryan_G_Wallace | 2026-10-04 | 2026-10-04 | bio page | positive | yes | Dates, full publication list, Leningrad 1989/1991 |
| NASA ADS | ui.adsabs.harvard.edu | 2026-10-04 | 2026-10-04 | author; citations(); radar bibcodes | positive | yes | Citation network (12 citing papers); primary radar papers indexed |
| Taylor & Francis Online | tandfonline.com (Spectroscopy Letters) | 2026-10-04 | 2026-10-04 | TOC 5(12); Horedt & Ruck abstract | positive | yes | 1972 published rebuttal; full text paywalled |
| Semantic Scholar | semanticscholar.org | 2026-10-04 | 2026-10-04 | site search "Constancy of the Velocity of Light in Vacuum Horedt" | negative | no | Site search missed it; use direct paper URLs |
| Ekkehard Friebe (Farce online) | ekkehard-friebe.de/FP_C5_LL.HTM | 2026-10-04 | 2026-10-04 | Ch.5 page | positive | yes | Online edition with Leningrad photo caption; Shapiro letters (Ch.5, digest-only locally) |
| ritz-btr.narod.ru | ritz-btr.narod.ru/tolchel.html | 2026-10-04 | 2026-10-04 | Tolchelnikova article | positive | yes | Russian; Tolchelnikova-Murri 2001 analysis of the Venus radar reductions |
| antidogma.ru | antidogma.ru | — | — | — | not reached (time limit) | yes | Originals of Tolchelnikova papers; Artekha bibliography |
| IAU Symposium 21 proceedings | (search ADS/Google Books) | — | — | — | not reached (time limit) | yes | Clemence remark on radar second-order terms; Shapiro and Muhleman chapters |
| Fourth Texas Symposium proceedings | (Annals NYAS?, Google Books, archive.org) | — | — | — | not reached (time limit) | yes | Discussion after Shapiro "Observational tests of relativity" |
| Physics Essays / Galilean Electrodynamics 1990 | physicsessays.org; GED archive | — | — | — | not reached (time limit) | yes | Wallace's last journal papers |
| Internet Archive | archive.org | — | — | — | not reached (time limit) | yes | Search "Bryan G. Wallace", "Farce of Physics", Tampa Bay Times 1997 |
| Newspapers (St. Petersburg Times/Tampa Bay Times) | newspapers.com / Google News Archive | — | — | — | not reached (time limit) | yes | 1969 Florida Presbyterian College lecture; 1997 obituary |
Keywords tried
- "Bryan G. Wallace" "Radar testing of the relative velocity of light in space"
- "Wallace" "Physics Essays" 1990 "3" 94 OR "Galilean Electrodynamics" "Bryan Wallace"
- Horedt Ruck "Constancy of the Velocity of Light in Vacuum" Spectroscopy Letters 1972
- Rapier "A recent application of detection and estimation practices in radio and radar astronomy"
- "Fourth Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics" Shapiro "Observational tests" Annals New York Academy discussion Wallace
- Tolchelnikova Wallace radar Venus "c+v" OR "Bryan Wallace" Leningrad 1989 conference space time
- Tolchelnikova "Doppler observations of Venus" Galilean Electrodynamics
- "Bryan Wallace" physicist "St. Petersburg" 1997 obituary OR "Eckerd"
- ADS: author:"Wallace, B. G." year:1965-2000; citations() of 1969SpecL...2..361W, 1970SpecL...3..115W, 1971SpecL...4...79W, 1973FoPh....3..381W; bibcodes 1962AJ.....67..181P, 1962AJ.....67..191M, 1965AJ.....70..486E, 1966PhRvL..17..933S, 1967AJ.....72..338A
- Semantic Scholar: Constancy of the Velocity of Light in Vacuum Horedt
Not yet tried (next run): "Unified quantum electrodynamic ether" Foundations of Physics 1973 full text (Springer); "Computer simulation of mass dynamics in electrons" J. Clas. Phys. 1982; "Speculations in Science and Technology" 1986 Wallace; "Heisenberg and QCD" Physics Today; Wallace "Directed-energy weapons" Physics Today; "Inconsistencies in radar distances to Venus" 1968 preprint; Thornton Page papers (Wesleyan archives); Hollingsworth AFCRL; Moyer 1981 Celestial Mechanics light-time; Kislik/Soviet 1975 Venus radar delay paper; Robinson LSU Spectroscopy Letters editor; Eckerd College archives (Block, Rhodes, Floyd); NSF award search 1977-78 proposal; "Wallace, Bryan G" Florida Presbyterian College 1969; Russian-language "Уоллес" "радар" "Венера".
Leads for review
1. The inventor's own work
- The four Spectroscopy Letters papers (1969 2:361; 1970 3:115; 1971 4:79; 1971 4:123) and Found. Phys. 3, 381 (1973) are all indexed in ADS; the 1969 and 1971 radar papers are free as PDFs at GSJ (https://www.gsjournal.net/Science-Journals-Papers/Author/2378/Bryan,%20Wallace) and the 1969 paper also at http://sciliterature.50webs.com/SpecLetters1969-p361-367.pdf [web]. They close part of the claims.md source gap (the radar fit and its equations). Bears on claims 1-2. Owner: approve download into research/files/.
- Later papers not in the folder: Galilean Electrodynamics 1(2), 23 (1990); Physics Essays 3(1), 94 (1990); Physics Today letters 1981-1984; Scientific Ethics 1985; 1989 and 1991 Leningrad conference papers [web: NPA wiki]. Bears on claims 1, 3, 6.
- Wallace's own radar-distance equation as stated in Ch.5: c+v gives D = t(c+v)/2 - tv/2 = tc/2; "Einstein c" gives D = tc/2 - tv/2; he reads Moyer's 1981 JPL light-time formulation as c+v in substance [web: Friebe Ch.5; same as local text]. Bears on claim 1; Mathematician should check it against the 1969 paper.
2. Supporting information by others
- S. A. Tolchelnikova-Murri (Pulkovo Observatory astrometrist): GED 4(1), 3-6 (1993) "The Doppler Observations of Venus Contradict the SRT"; GED 5(6), 116-117; Izv. VUZov Geodeziya i aerofotos'emka No.6 (2001) 85-108. She argues that the Venus radar reductions used classical kinematics and Doppler formulas, not SR, and quotes G. M. Clemence (USNO) at IAU Symposium 21 that the second-order terms "cannot be regarded as a new confirmation of relativity" (her rendering). She does NOT claim radar shows c+v: she argues the round trip cancels the solar-system velocity [web: https://ritz-btr.narod.ru/tolchel.html]. Bears on claims 1-2 (independent professional who reached a related conclusion, with a different reading).
- P. M. Rapier (Burns and Roe, Inc.), Spectroscopy Letters 4, 303 (1971), VLBI of 3C 279, cites Wallace [web: ADS, tandfonline]. Bears on claims 1, 5.
- Wegener & Øhrstrøm, Nuovo Cimento B 30, 291 (1975) "Relativity, gravitation and absolute time" cites Wallace [web: ADS]. Bears on claim 11 (absolute frame).
3. Closely related work
- G. B. Malykin, "Sagnac effect and Ritz ballistic hypothesis (Review)", Optics and Spectroscopy 109, 951 (2010), and Malykin & Romanets, "Superluminal motion (review)", Opt. Spectrosc. 112, 920 (2012), both cite Wallace [web: ADS]. Russian Academy reviews of the ballistic (Ritz, c+v) hypothesis; likely state the mainstream objections and the history in which Wallace sits. Bears on claims 1-2.
- ritz-btr.narod.ru is a Russian site devoted to Ritz's ballistic theory (the emission/c+v family Wallace belongs to) [web].
- A. G. Kelly's FOIA reanalysis of Hafele-Keating raw data (Institution of Engineers of Ireland Monograph 3, 1996; Physics Essays 2000) and Louis Essen's 1977 critique, listed on sciliterature.50webs.com [web]. Bears on claim 11 (Wallace's absolute-frame reading of Hafele-Keating).
4. Historical record
- Published rebuttal: Gp. Horedt & H. Ruck, "Constancy of the Velocity of Light in Vacuum", Spectroscopy Letters 5(12), 455-461 (1972), answering "a series of papers 1-15" against light-speed constancy in that journal [web: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00387017208065415]. Bears on claim 6: shows the journal printed a reply in 1972, seven years before Robinson's 1979 letter; the full text would show whether Wallace's radar argument was answered on its merits.
- Shapiro's position as relayed by Wallace (letter 17 Jan 1969): radar data "not consistent with the 'ballistic theory'... consistent with general relativity", citing Shapiro, Ash & Tausner, "Radar Verification of the Doppler Formula", PRL 17, 933 (1966) [web: ADS; text in Farce Ch.5]. This is Shapiro's side of claim 2, which claims.md said was not given. Ch.5 was digest-only; the reviewers should read the letters sequence (local text lines about 3535-3800).
- Primary radar data papers on ADS: Pettengill et al. AJ 67, 181 (1962); Muhleman, Holdridge & Block AJ 67, 191 (1962); Evans et al. AJ 70, 486 (1965); Ash, Shapiro & Smith AJ 72, 338 (1967) [web: ADS]. They are what claim 1 needs to be checked against.
- Fourth Texas Symposium date: Wallace says Dallas 1968; ADS lists I. D. Novikov's report on "The Fourth 'Texas' Symposium" in Soviet Astronomy dated Dec 1967. Unresolved; the proceedings and their discussion transcript are the record for claim 2.
- Biography: born 8 Feb 1933, died 19 Mar 1997; Natural Philosophy Alliance member; Leningrad conferences 1989 and 1991 [web: NPA wiki]. No obituary found yet.