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Equation 103 · Part 1 · The Bend an Elevator Cannot Fake

Symbol phi

ϕ\phi
ϕ\phi

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…surveying, where 1\,E\mathrm E = 10^{-9}\,s−2\mathrm{s^{-2}} . Under a rotation of the local spatial axes it transforms as an ordinary rank-two tensor; under a change of which node is used as the additive reference for ϕ\phi it is unchanged, because it depends only on derivatives of ϕ\phi , never its value; and up to the factor U2U^2 ≈\approx 1 negligible at the one-part-in- 10^9 level for any terrestrial network, it is c2c^2 times the frame component RiR^i{}_{0j0} of the Riemann tensor in the static observers’ own rest…

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