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Equation 58 · Part 1 · No Particle Without a Cosigner

Symbol T_U

TU(a(τ))T_U(a(\tau))
TUT_U

What this part means

the temperature.

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TUT_U 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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This is exactly the Planck spectral shape at temperature TUT_U = ℏ\hbar a/(2π\pi c kBk_B) , recovering the Unruh temperature as this article’s known-theory baseline, not as anything new.

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…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 TU(a(τ)T_U(a(\tau)) at each moment, as though briefly and locally eternal. This adiabatic recovery is the second known limit this construction inherits rather than derives: it says DdetD_{\rm det} between a strictly eternal trajectory at acceleration a and a slowly varying trajectory that happens to pass…

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