On Sep 6, 2011, at 8:01 AM, Peter Heckert wrote:
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
The following experiment showed no large change in dissociation
energy of H2 molecules within a one micron thick (0.001 mm) Casimir
cavity:
http://www.earthtech.org/experiments/src/srcreport.htm
This dissociation energy is dependent on the H2 molecular vibrational
frequency, which should change for all molecules in the cavity if
time dilation occurs for matter within a small cavity. It does not
appear this happens. This experiment demonstrates some of the
difficulties of experimenting in this genre.
It is notable that NMR has been done extensively on metals with
absorbed hydrogen. No time dilation effect has been noted in the
literature I have read on this.
I would expect radioactive decay rates to be a function of nuclear
transit rates of electrons. This rate could be increased or
decreased, depending on the chemical environment, electron status, of
the lattice environment into which hydrogen is absorbed. Transiting
electrons bring large amounts of kinetic energy into a nucleus. This
can obviously be disruptive to an already unstable nucleus. There was
a study that showed an accelerated decay rate for a radioactive
element with orbitals compressed by trapping the element within C-60
cages.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
