Equation 105 · Part 5 · No Particle Without a Cosigner
Symbol k_B
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is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.
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is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.
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…electron-positron collider, with of order 210^5 and r of order several kilometers, this works out to a 810^{23}\, , corresponding by the Unruh formula to = a/(2 c ) 310^3\, — a temperature scale that is, remarkably, not astronomically small, unlike the roughly 10^{-19}\, an Earth-bound laboratory accelerometer would need a planet’s worth of gravity to approach. Bell and Leinaas pointed out that the relevant observable is not a…
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