Resolution of Kantor and Babcock-Bergman Emission Theory Anomalies

TL;DR

This paper reviews historical anomalies in emission theory experiments, explores related optical phenomena, and proposes a new relativistic model that resolves these issues without contradicting Special Relativity or requiring an ether.

Contribution

It introduces a theoretical resolution to emission theory anomalies, linking optical effects with relativistic principles and providing a consistent model supported by quantum and optical phenomena.

Findings

Kantor's 1962 result may be explained without violating relativity.

A relativistic model based on diffractive mechanisms is developed.

Relationships between optical effects and relativistic postulates are established.

Abstract

Kantor's 1962 interferometer result supporting the emission theory of light was tested by Babcock and Bergman in 1964 but with rotating glass plates placed in a vacuum. The results falsified the theory that light passing out of the glass continued at greater than c in the lab frame, but the anomalies were not resolved. We review these anomalies as well as related and poorly understood effects including kinetic reverse refraction and non-linear optics. We also consider advances in science and astrophysics and find and describe a theoretical resolution. We find that Kantor's finding may also be apparent without violating the postulates of Special Relativity or invoking an absolute 'ether' frame. Relationships between Maxwell's near field transition zone, photo-ionization, non-linear optics and the surface electro/magneto-optic Kerr effects emerge, building an ontological construction which we describe and quantify. Proper time is found to be required for proper speed. A relativistic theoretical model is built from a diffractive mechanism, as used by the US Naval Observatory for accuracy in the AA2010 aberration declination model, but now with a consistent relativistic theory to support the model. We show how the inconsistency between Michelson's 1924 experiment supporting ether and his famous null result may arise from systemic asymmetry of crossing counts. The quantum mechanisms of Raman scattering, optical axis rotation, and CMB frames last scattered are shown to directly derive the Special Relativity postulates.