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Equation 77 · Part 2 · A Horizon Is a Toll Booth, Not a Loophole

Symbol Gamma

N⊥[Γ]N_\perp[\Gamma]
Γ\Gamma

What this part means

Gamma is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

Its job in the formula

Gamma is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.

The passage around this formula

The static case is not the only way to be near a horizon, and the dossier’s second known limit says free fall is locally ordinary: a processor in free fall feels no proper acceleration at all, by the equivalence principle, and N⊥N_\perp[Γ\Gamma] evaluated along a free-fall worldline reduces to the same flat-space Levitin-Toffoli rate a laboratory bench would deliver, with no support-energy penalty whatsoever. That looks, briefly, like a genuine route back to a subsidy: fall past the horizon in free fall, compute at the ordinary flat-space rate the whole way, and let the distant observer’s coordinate time stretch out however it likes while never paying a support bill.

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