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Equation 48 · Part 5 · A Horizon Is a Toll Booth, Not a Loophole

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N⊥=2πℏE0′ Δτ.N_\perp = \frac{2}{\pi\hbar}E_0'\,\Delta\tau.
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What this part means

The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.

Its job in the formula

The equals sign connects the complete expression on the left with the complete expression on the right. Both sides must have compatible units.

The passage around this formula

That second identity is the entire resolution in miniature, and it is worth deriving N⊥N_\perp[Γ\Gamma] both ways to see it operate. Hold the local energy budget fixed at ElocE_{\rm loc}=E0E_0' (a battery physically at the processor, delivering a fixed amount of locally measured energy) over a proper interval Δ\Deltaτ\tau : N⊥=2πℏE0′ ΔτN_\perp = \frac{2}{\pi\hbar}E_0'\,\Delta\tau. Now hold the asymptotic Killing energy fixed instead, at E∞E_\infty = f\sqrt{f}\,E0E_0' (the amount of energy it would cost a distant experimenter, at infinity, to deliver that same physical resource down to radius r ), and integrate over the corresponding coordinate interval Δ\Delta t = Δ\Deltaτ\tau/f\sqrt f :

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Learn the underlying idea

An equals sign says that the expression on its left and the expression on its right have the same value under the stated definitions and assumptions.

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