Comment on "Spin-rotation coupling in non-exponential decay of hydrogenlike heavy ions" by G. Lambiase et al

TL;DR

This paper critically examines a recent claim about spin-rotation coupling affecting decay rates, arguing that the proposed explanation involves an implausible cancellation of measurements by eleven orders of magnitude.

Contribution

The paper provides a critical commentary highlighting the implausibility of the explanation given for observed decay oscillations in recent experiments.

Findings

The proposed explanation requires an impossible cancellation of measurements.

The critique questions the validity of the spin-rotation coupling hypothesis in this context.

It emphasizes the need for alternative explanations for the decay oscillations.

Abstract

I note that the explanation of a recently posted paper by Lambiase et al. [arXiv:0811.2302] for the oscillations in the electron capture decay rate, reported by Litvinov et al.[arXiv:0801.2079], requires the cancellation of a difference by eleven orders of magnitude for the two independent measurements. Such a cancellation is (impossible)^2.