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   2.2 The experiments of  Professor Allais in the field of optics

       2.2.1   Henri Poincaré, who, it should be pointed out, is the father of the well known E=mc2 formula which made Einstein famous with his development of the theory of relativity, said that the day would come when a Copernicus would make clear the Earth's movement and its position in orbit.

Léon Foucault in 1851 had proved the rotation of the Earth, but the uniform movement of the Earth in its orbit remained to be shown. Christian Doppler had shown that sound was propagated more quickly in the direction of the wind than in the opposite direction. One might thus ask whether or not light propagates more quickly in the direction of this movement.

        2.2.2    On the basis of the concept of an ether used as a support for all the phenomena of physics, Professor Allais, convinced of the existence of this intermediate medium, wondered whether optical experiments of sightings on sighting-marks could not confirm what he had already found with pendulums. Thus, in July 1958, he launched such experiments with optical sightings in two directions.

He quickly noted the amplitudes of optical deviations, which, considered in themselves, were unexplainable within the framework of accepted theories. Moreover, he found a remarkable correspondence with the observations of the pendulum !