Towards a logical electromagnetic theory

In his train-and-embankment thought experiment, Einstein committed an inadmissable logical error, assigning two different velocities to the same light beam. Evans has shown that if either velocity is used consistently, absolute simultaneity must result. This mistake reflects the inherent inconsistency between the two postulates of special relativity, which are equivalent to A and non-A. Such an illogical theory can never be confirmed by experiment, and so purported evidence for special relativity must be able to be reinterpreted. The approach followed here is to find equivocal meanings. Evidence for constant c and for additive light velocity is not actually contradictory, if one examines with care the precise phenomenological content of the results. Both sets of evidence are consistent with a new theory of light motion involving a gaseous ether, discovered by Sagnac in 1913 and others since. Experiments claiming relativity of time reduce mainly to dependence on the mass-increase formula which in turn has never been unequivocally proven. Instead of mass increase one can opt for variable apparent charge; or for no variation in e/m at all, if one dispenses with certain hypothetical characteristics of the electron. The new electromagnetics so outlined is a combination of additive and ether theories, fully consistent with Newtonian dynamics - and, no less important, with Aristotelian logic. (Auth.)