On Sun, 01 May 2011 13:12: Jones Beene wrote [snip]The leap of faith is to suggest that Reifenschweiler works to increase the decay rate of a nucleus not known to decay[/snip]
Jones - You only mention Reifenschweiler effect which decelerates radioactive decay by about 25% while there are also claims of accelerated radioactive decay where the radioactive gas decays at many times it's normal rate.. The clues about changes in energy density due to Casimir geometry, the relationship between energy density - gravitational wells and time dilation, Naudts paper on relativistic hydrogen and "The Light Velocity Casimir Effect" by Tom Ostoma and Mike Trushyk where the measured velocity of light "appears" to increase due to Casimir geometry. My point is that everything really is relative including the proper interpretation of Casimir effect and the reactants in Catalytic action. I think we are seeing much "older" reactants returning from catalytic reactions then go in. I think naked protons provide an opportunity to take catalytic action [change in Casimir geometry] to the next level and that if no "unbalanced" chemical reactions occurred we would still get back much older hydrogen from Casimir geometry than was put in. I think the lower energy density due to Casimir suppression is balanced by an increased density outside the plates that concentrates into a negative acceleration between the different density levels - radioactive gas with an affinity for the external geometry has it's decay rate slightly decelerated due to negative time dilation while radioactive gas with an affinity for the cavity geometry has it's decay rate greatly accelerated. My thought is the decay rates of radioactive gas atoms reveals time dilation, while dilation has never even been considered for catalytic action there are some papers mentioned previously that indicate changes in C and energy density for Casimir geometry. You yourself, have noted the inverse relationship between Casimir geometry in the form of nano powders with the pores of Rayney nickel and we have papers about catalytic action only occurring at the openings and defects in nano tube geometry - this last gives weight to my posit that catalytic action is just change in Casimir geometry. I think the naked hydrogen proton may have the ability to take Casimir geometry to a super catalyst level in that it can "shrink" into nano geometry that appears from our perspective to be smaller than the proton itself - NOT approaching the Casimir boundaries where the field would fall apart per Liftshitz but the boundaries themselves seem to fall away allowing the protons to escape into a spatial volume hidden from our perspective on our time axis. This would appear to us as the crease where the plates come closed at the bottom of the cavity where A/a^4 time dilates from our perspective but space opens and equivalent accelerations gyrate wildly from a local perspective [quantum blender]. Even though I think ZPE and energy are the initial energy source based on an asymmetrical path for h2 vs h1 between changes in energy density I don't discount nuclear reactions in this environment because these reactions are most probable only where the dilation is highest and the frequency downshifting and displacement will attenuate the radiation - I am suggesting the E-cat enjoys a relativistic shield where the Gamma radiation Cannot propagate back to our frame and remain Gamma radiation- think Flatlander version of twin paradox where twin on space ship is near C flying past a planet with a radio tower - because spaceship is near C it is oriented 90 degrees to 2d surface of planet sticking out into our 3D world but locally unaware of it. If he sends a signal it will take years for a short message to accumulate on the planet and the frequency will be so woefully slow as to be undetectable. The same thing would happen if we sent a signal to a local observer at lower energy density inside a Casimir cavity since we become the spaceship headed into the future appearing "stationary" from his perspective. Now consider the local observer in the cavity initiating nuclear reactions to send a morse code message using Gamma radiation to us - We appear to be racing away from the cavity at a differential of near C due to negative acceleration inside the cavity. The propagation rate become C minus near C and just like radio communications between planet and spaceship we would have to slowly accumulate the signal - relativistic downshift of gamma. I don't think exotic nuclear reactions are behind the missing Gamma radiation but rather our understanding of catalytic action and the theory of Casimir effect. Presently we assume the vacuum fluctuations in Casimir effect are "upshifted" such that longer wavelengths can not exist between Casimir boundaries and the total energy density is therefore reduced. I am proposing a relativistic interpretation of Casimir effect where the longer wavelengs still exist and the boundaries appear to shrink away into the distance for a local observer in the cavity. This is based on the paper "Cavity QED" by Zofia Bialynicka-Birula, another paper on Relativistic hydrogen by Jan Naudts and "The Light Velocity Casimir Effect" by Tom Ostoma and Mike Trushyk where the measured velocity of light "appears" to increase due to Casimir geometry. My point is time dilation better explains the seeming increase in C calculated by entry and exity of light thru a cavity, it also gives an alternate explanation of "fractional" hydrogen orbits in this environment as a relativistic effect unseen by the local observer inside the cavity AND it would explain the missing radiation as not only "DOWNshifted" but also attenuation since the "contraction" we observe remotely is actually spatial displacement locally. We are trained to think of relativistic effects as requiring near luminal velocity to INCREASE vacuum energy density before dilation can occur but it would appear that Casimir supression can REDUCE vacuum energy density by doing just the opposite - spatial confinement - de- celeration or even "negative" acceleration AND instead of slowing time from our perspective it accelerates it.http://froarty.scienceblog.com/32155/relativistic-interpertation-of-casim ir-effect-expanded/My blog does not speak to the nuclear paths but I am convinced this relativistic interpretation and energy density pumping above and below the disassociation threshold for h2 provides the initiating environment that makes otherwise improbable nuclear reactions probable.See my blog "Gas property of constant
