Peter,
You are in good company - Professor Moddel also though the idea
was intriguing but that it would take a mathematician years to prove or
disprove it based on QED. As for your suggestion of diffusing a radioactive gas
into Rayney nickel there are already many documented cases of both accelerated
and delayed half lives of radioactive gases. The accelerated half lives are
more pronounced and much more common while the delayed half lives are much less
pronounced and are described by the Reifenschweiler effect.
The more pronounced effect is on acceleration of radioactive decay while the
Reifenschweiler effect is instead a DELAY of radioactive and is a much smaller
effect.
Regards
Fran
>From the website of Ludwik
>Kowalski<http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/cf/311alberts.html%20>;
>Reifenschweiler effect.
Ludwik Kowalski; 11/xx/2006 Department of Mathematical Sciences Montclair State
University, Upper Montclair, NJ, 07043
About two months ago Albert Alberts, from Netherlands, mentioned some
observations made by Otto Reifenschweiler. This was on the restricted Internet
list for CMNS researchers. Asked for a clarification, Alberts wrote:
"The 'Reifenschweiler effect' is the observation that the beta-decay of
tritium half-life 12.5 years is delayed reversibly by about 25-30% when the
isotope is absorbed in 15 nm titanium-clusters in a temperature window in
between 160-275 C. Remarkably at 360 C the original radioactivity reappears.
The effect is absent in bulk metal. Discovered around 1960/1962 at Philips
Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands Reifenschweiler extensively discussed his
observation with o.a Casimir (the director of research at the time), Kistemaker
(ultracentrifuge expert), and although no satisfactory explanation was found,
R. was allowed to publish it. At the time a unique example as to how an
electronic environment might affect nuclear phenomena."
From: Peter Heckert [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 12:01 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:RE: Relativistic Casimir Cavities
Am 06.09.2011 17:58, schrieb Peter Heckert:
Am 06.09.2011 02:20, schrieb francis:
Which is to say we outside the cavity appear to be the Paradox twin approaching
C and slowing down due to time dilation relative to the modified ratio of
V^2/C^2 inside the cavity.
Interesting thought.
Could this be tested when we diffuse a radioactive gas into Raney Nickel and
measure the radioactive decay rate?.
Another possibility to measure the time dilation could be by measuring the
frequency of magnetic nuclear spin resonance.
Best,
Peter
