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Equation 36 · Part 7 · A Horizon Is a Toll Booth, Not a Loophole

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τML(τ)=πℏ/[2(⟨H(τ)⟩−E0(τ))]\tau_{\rm ML}(\tau) = \pi\hbar/[2(\langle H(\tau)\rangle-E_0(\tau))]
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The dossier for this paper flags something the two equations above do not, by themselves, settle: the periodic-evolution bound above was derived for a Hamiltonian with a genuinely time-independent spectrum. A real computation drives H(τ\tau) through a sequence of different instantaneous Hamiltonians, one per gate, and nothing guarantees in advance that a chain of instantaneously applied bounds sums to a valid bound on the whole chain. The condition that licenses treating N⊥N_\perp[Γ\Gamma] as a legitimate partition into instantaneously static Levitin-Toffoli steps is a quasi-static one: over one local orthogonalization time τML(τ)\tau_{\rm ML}(\tau) = π\piℏ\hbar/[2(⟨\langle H(τ\tau)⟩\rangle-E0(τ)E_0(\tau))] ,…

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