Jones,
Re-read your paragraph at bottom and now see more clearly what you were trying to say re-the time dilation argument – regardless Of whether this is normal trig relationship between acceleration on the spatial vs the time axis or as I mentioned another type Where the time axis moves faster instead the issue remains that the double beta decay is too long compared to the dilation causing f/h. I Have said previously that we are trading time for energy and the hydrogen returned from the cavity is much older than the hydrogen entering The cavity. That said however, I don’t think the electron velocity of C/137 calculated by Bourgoin’s 07 paper "INVERSE QUANTUM STATES OF HYDROGEN" would Be enough to accumulate as you say a half life longer than the age of the universe. I am not saying that C/137 is a limit but it is one of the few Numerical relationships I can cite for the relativistic interpretation – I’ll have to look at Naudts math again which isn’t based on a fractional orbit but it is magnitudes larger –more like the value you would need for decay. Best Regards Fran [quote]However, the double beta decay rate is slow to begin with (half-life is longer than the age of the universe) . consequently, to make a large difference, there needs to be much more than (or in addition to) a massive time alteration. IOW there must more going-on than the time factor alone influencing the decay rate - and that is where a nuclear charge alteration, brought on by the close approach of a partially shielded positive charge, like a deuteron (as opposed to a proton which has no partial shielding) could come into play. [/quote]
