Jones,
I think the Casimir effect is misunderstood and I was using "luminal velocities" to indicate the normal requirements in free space to induce relativistic effects. I strongly suspect that the plates of a Casimir cavity are to a gas atom what a dead star would be to a spaceship crushed to its' surface both supplying equivalent acceleration but the spacecraft is still in free space and needs to accumulate luminal velocity relative to another acceleration frame to demonstrate time dilation. The relativistic interpertation of Casimir effect has vacuum flux twisting on the time axis to appear faster from our perspective instead of being displaced by shorter wavelength flux per current theory, This greatly discounts the need for luminal velocities to curve space time, instead the plate geometry has already bent space and and any difference in acceleration outside the cavity vs inside will accumulate velocity on this pre-established vector. I recall earlier skepticsm regarding how long it would take gas atoms in a cavity to attain the needed velocities but think these arguments failed to take into account the discount the Casimir cavity provides. In this theory we outside the cavity are the equivalentlly accelerated space twin while the gas atoms inside the cavity see us appear to slow down to a crawl as we accelerate away from them on the time axis. Just a hunch Fran
