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Equation 62 · Part 2 · No Particle Without a Cosigner

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e−iΩΔτe^{-i\Omega\Delta\tau}
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What this part means

Capital delta attached to a quantity marks a difference between two values of that quantity; the article’s sign convention determines the order.

Its job in the formula

Capital delta attached to a quantity marks a difference between two values of that quantity; the article’s sign convention determines the order.

The passage around this formula

An inertial worldline’s Wightman function is the flat-space, two-point function of the free vacuum, whose Fourier transform against e−iΩΔτe^{-i\Omega\Delta\tau} has support only for Ω\Omega<0 — this is nothing more exotic than vacuum stability, the same textbook fact that says an unaccelerated atom in its ground state, coupled to the electromagnetic vacuum, never spontaneously jumps up in energy [ 6 ] . Consequently F˙inertial(Ω)\dot{\mathcal F}_{\rm inertial}(\Omega) = 0 identically for every Ω\Omega>0 , not approximately, not in some limit — exactly zero. The normalization integral ∫0∞\int_0^\infty F˙inertial(Ω′)\dot{\mathcal F}_{\rm inertial}(\Omega')\,dΩ\Omega' is therefore also exactly zero, and pinertial(Ω)p_{\rm inertial}(\Omega) is…

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Addition combines quantities; subtraction measures the signed difference between them. Parentheses show what is combined before the rest of the expression is evaluated.

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