Equation 11 · Part 1 · No Particle Without a Cosigner
Symbol W
What this part means
W 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
W is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Full expression→Symbol W→Article meaning
The passage around this formula
where W is the field’s two-point Wightman function evaluated along the trajectory [ 5 ] . Three things in this expression are worth fixing in the reader’s mind before anything else happens to it. First, is proper time — the detector’s own clock, the only time variable with unambiguous physical…
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