If the Reifenschweiler effect is relativistic as I have posited then it
is colder / slower from our perspective but distributed widely over the
exterior of the Casimir plate boundary in a shallow resivoir (sail analogy)
vs the acceleration / heating that occurs inside the cavity where this
resivoir is turned into a permanent venturi - It isn't something for nothing
but rather a practical example of maxwells demon segregating energy density
by virtue of supression and conductive geometry.
The effect is less pronounced than claims of accelerated half lives because
the change in energy density is dispersed over the entire external plate
surface instead of concentrated into a tiny cavity too small to exhaust the
resevoir.
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.
Regards
Fran
