Equation 55 · Part 2 · No Particle Without a Cosigner
Symbol τ
What this part means
τ is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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τ is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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The passage around this formula
A second limit worth naming, because it is where the eternal-acceleration answer above starts to strain, is slow time dependence. Barbado and Visser worked out the response of a detector whose acceleration a() varies with proper time, expanding in powers of , , and higher proper-time derivatives of the acceleration [ 8 ] . At leading order, wherever the acceleration changes slowly compared to the local orthogonalization timescale it sets for itself, the detector reports the instantaneous Unruh temperature ) at each moment, as though briefly and locally eternal. This adiabatic recovery is the second known limit this construction inherits rather than derives: it…
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