The Sagnac Effect Falsifies Special Relativity Theory

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The Sagnac Effect Falsifies Special Relativity Theory
Ramzi Suleiman
2017

Abstract
It is commonly held that the Sagnac effect does not contradict Special Relativity because it manifests in non-inertial rotational motion, thereby necessitating a General Relativity framework. However, multiple well-designed studies have demonstrated that a Sagnac effect, identical to that observed in uniform rotational motion, is also evident in transverse uniform motion. This finding should have been sufficient to challenge the validity of Special Relativity. In this article, we provide theoretical support for these experimental results by elucidating the equivalence of the dynamics between transverse and rotational motion types. Given that the transverse Sagnac effect contradicts Special Relativity, it logically follows that the rotational Sagnac effect does as well. Furthermore, we demonstrate that our recently proposed Information Relativity theory, which rejects the constancy of the velocity of light axiom, can theoretically account for the Sagnac effect.

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Of course, Sagnac had proposed the correct relativity theory which he called External Relativity as early as 1900. But nobody paid attention to him. He went to see Lorentz in person in 1905 to explain to him what relativity truly means, but Lorentz didn’t mention him at all. Then, years later Einstein was invited to Paris to give lecture in Sorbonne where Sagnac was a professor of physics. Sagnac refuted Einstein’s claims and challenged him in front of everyone. Still people didn’t understand what he was talking about and told him it was rude to challenge the guest. That prompted him to design the famous Sganac effect apparatus and published it to show that Special Relativity was demonstrably wrong.