Equation 45 · Part 1 · The Bit Comes Back Before the Bearing
Symbol epsilon_L
What this part means
a dimensionless number in [0,1] , and has units of time.
Its job in the formula
epsilo is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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Where the article explains it
induced by the hole’s own scrambling dynamics up to time t ; is a dimensionless number in [0,1] , and has units of time.
The passage around this formula
The shape difference between these two promises is the entire point of separating them. is bounded in [0,1] and can, in principle, hit its floor abruptly once decoupling sets in. has no upper bound and shrinks only as fast as grows, which — as the next two sections show — need not be abrupt at all. A reader who asks “has the black hole given it back?” is asking two different kinds of question depending on which object they mean, and conflating them is precisely the failure mode this construction is built to prevent.
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A subscript is a label attached below a symbol. It often selects a time step, component, category, or member of a sequence.
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