More on suspected Casimir thermal anomalies - up or down, as they relate to the subject heading.
These effects, if they are real, may or may not be a "set-up" (preliminary stage) for eventual LENR, but there seems to be a direct connection, at least when the experiment is run long enough for transmutation to be observed. Firstly, we know that the Casimir effect can be either attractive or repulsive, depending on small variations in geometry. But it is a force, and until recently has not been claimed to be a conduit for ZPE, in an active sense. Moreover, if there is a 'dynamic Casimir effect' in the sense of an ongoing heating effect, then it is likely that there could also be an ongoing cooling effect, when those small changes in geometry happen. This is counterintuitive. But if both dynamic effects can be documented, as predicted, then it makes a much better case for the general hypothesis (as opposed to only a heating effect). BTW - the most general hypothesis is that Casimir effects precede LENR in the sense of changing QM tunneling probabilities, which then lead to nuclear reactions which are secondarily able to 'balance the books' to eliminate CoE concerns. Plus, we know that NO dynamic Casimir effect has been shown to take place at ambient (~300K): and that in general, with nanopowder such as in the Arata formula, a "trigger" temperature must be employed. But we have some potentially new physics with a "dynamical Casimir effect operating in a thermally stressed condition near the phase-change of the host." IOW - this additional hypothesis can help to explain parts of both LENR and the Mills' phenomena, better than anything else in the literature: which is to say that (one form of) LENR can be described as a ZPE-related QM effect in the first stage, and that nuclear effects follow, due to enhanced tunneling of hydrogen isomers. It is no coincidence that published experiments typically use a nanopowder like zirconia, which is known to have a pronounced phase-change around the trigger temperature. To document gain, one needs to run an experiment for hours or days to eliminate the mundane possibility of exotherm (endotherm) due to the phase-change. Usually this possibility can be eliminated in less than an hour, as the net energy available from phase-change is well known and not large for an ounce or two of Casimir media. Hundreds of times more energy will follow when a real dynamic effect occurs. The counterintuitive part is the cooling: how does a higher level "trigger" become part of a demonstrable cooling effect ? That is where precision measurement equipment and a proper understanding of "temperature inversion" comes in. More on this later, but suffice it to say that it is not difficult to show a strong cooling effect at the same time one is adding continuous heat - such as when one is riding in a convertible in July with the AC on high, as we used to do 50 years ago when gas was 35 cents a gallon. Well, even so, net cooling via ZPE is a quandary, with almost nothing in the literature, and therefore I thought I was inventing a new term for the simplest version of it: "inverse recalescence." That is because it is functionally the inverse of recalescence (if-and-when it happens on a short time frame). For a longer-term effect, one could call it either "persistent inverse recalescence" - or preferably: Casimir cooling. BTW: If you google "inverse recalescence" you will probably get exactly the same two hits I got, and they are from 1995-96 . so in this case, you did NOT hear it first on vortex. But at least you are ahead of the Wiki-curve, since they do not yet even have a dedicated entry for "recalescence" (which is a known energetic phase-change phenomena). As one can imagine, in order to eliminate all skepticism that these thermal anomalies are real, and that they are related mostly to hydrogen loading and NOT a function of the phase-change properties of the adsorbent media alone, these experiments must be run for extended periods of time. Jones
