I agree the core is hotter and the Casimir regions where the heat anomaly is born may be even hotter yet. I know Jones Beene posits these areas can be considered "cold" due to confinement but myself being of a relativistic perspective think these "hot" and "cold" labels are not up to the task. A Curie temperature "equivalent" might be achieved at certain fractional levels of hydrogen but we are never going to get a temperature probe inside a Casimir cavity and even if we could the local "SPATIAL" velocity of the gas atoms will not equate to a high temperature . IMHO the gas atoms in these regions where vacuum energy density is suppressed experience equivalent acceleration, a gravity hill instead of a gravity well such that we the observers outside the geometry appear to be at the bottom of a well as compared to the density inside the geometry. I am convinced the same Lorentzian effects pertain to these atoms which pertain to the Twin Paradox. My point is a local observer in either frame will see a clock in the remote frame as smaller and slower and it is only when the clocks return to the common frame we can physically measure relative dilation effects - so yes like Jones posits it will appear the condensed hydrogen is smaller and slower but when a radioactive gas returns from a rejoin of lower vacuum energy density we see that it's half life has decayed faster than normal. I also posit that longer vacuum wavelengths are not displaced by Casimir boundaries but rather they bend space-time inside the boundaries such that they can fit and that a tiny local observer inside the cavity would still observe all the vacuum energy wavelengths and an unchanged background energy. That is - a relativistic interpretation of Casimir effect.
Regards Fran
