  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.
