Alec
Thanks for your kind advice to learn more of current physics. I agree your way is the most common, but when I considered the views of the greats, Einstein, Bragg(s) etc, I decided on a minority route. As a professional myself, qualified to doctorate level, I have great respect for most others, but respect is something we must all continually earn. Believing what you were taught It's completely understandable you find my approach 'naive'. It's intentionally so ("unaffected"). I question all assumptions, and (almost) everything not proven beyond doubt - which is most things!. I've had remarkable success doing it, and in particular from (learning conventional experimenting etc Optics) developed what has proved to be a better understanding of complex superposed wave characteristics than the conventional one. There are plenty going the conventional route, I've learnt the 'different way of thinking,' about things - which you will understandably misinterpret as simply not knowing. In particular I've found many connections that college physics simply doesn't teach. The term 'nothing to do with..' is one of our most common misnomers, nature is all connected, only lectures are not.
Specifically; I am challenging the 'interpretation' of the RS experiment. You say "It is nothing to do with frequency.." I say 'Amplitude Modulation' is a simplistic and incorrect assumption. OK, as far as being the 'name' we learn for the effect it is correct, but it IS largely about frequency. Indeed Jonathen seems to suspect that and is a bit hazy about it himself referring to "amplitude AND FREQUENCY". I know current science differs. That is my precise point.
I could give you some good analogies about waves, if you're interested and wish to discuss further, but I'll finish here with your last 2 points;
'Decoherence'. Sudden death certainly doesn't 'restore' Bells inequalities! I can agree however that 'remove' was the wrong term without specifying the case, and in general terms it's more accurate to say it 'allows violations'. But that of course is the important point, we've assumed none were allowed. Joy Christians point seems as powerful but perhaps also arguable.
AG JETS. The apparent velocity argument re 'angle' is logically geometrically flawed and cannot provide the whole answer when compared to the stats. I've studied the SDSS data from over 200,000 quasars (paper done and under consideration) and it's clear there are two main components. If you look above here somewhere you'll see the short argument debunking the simple 'approach angle' solution. Wikipedia includes more than one. The second is also logically and geometrically essential to meet the common observations, and of over 7c.
I don't believe you've really read the essay with an open mind to the model described. You need to both have flexible visualisation/computing skills, and WANT to find the solution. Any pre-assumption that it must be nonsense will prevent that.
Perhaps think of it this way; As we've now found Venus has the same 'Planet centric' plasmasphere we've found round the Earth and Saturn, (Venus Express) through which we now radio waves and light are scattered to travel at c/n with respect to the planets, why do we logically need the LT to prove the SR postulates and PoE? It's a choice of belief v simple logic. I'm genuinly interested in finding an answer to that as NOBODY here (or anywhere) has offered one.! ...And yes. ..It's about the king new clothes.
Peter