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Equation 13 · Part 1 · No Particle Without a Cosigner

Symbol Omega

Ω\Omega
Ω\Omega

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conjugate to that same proper time.

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Second, Ω\Omega is conjugate to that same proper time; it is an energy gap measured in the detector’s own instantaneous rest frame, not a coordinate-frame frequency.

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…is proper time — the detector’s own clock, the only time variable with unambiguous physical meaning for a single worldline — never the coordinate time of whatever chart the trajectory happens to be written in. Second, Ω\Omega is conjugate to that same proper time; it is an energy gap measured in the detector’s own instantaneous rest frame, not a coordinate-frame frequency. Third, the field state enters only through W , and changing the field state — the ordinary vacuum, a thermal state, the Boulware,…

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