Equation 15 · Part 4 · The Bend an Elevator Cannot Fake
Symbol c^2
What this part means
The square of c: multiply c by itself.
Its job in the formula
is squared: multiply the underlying quantity by itself. The square is a mathematical operation, not a second independent variable.
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The passage around this formula
At weak field this reduces to the familiar ( - )/ for Newtonian potential , exactly the quantity real fibre-linked clock comparisons already report [ 1 , 7 ] . Collect every measured edge into a vector y , one entry per link, and encode the network’s topology in an incidence matrix B : row e = (i,j) has a +1 in column i , a -1 in column j , and zero elsewhere. The model is y = B + n for measurement noise n with covariance C , and the standard weighted least-squares estimate of the node potentials is
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An exponent tells how a base is used in multiplication. In x³, x is the base and 3 is the exponent: x³ = x × x × x.
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