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Equation 67 · Part 2 · No Particle Without a Cosigner

Symbol Omega

pinertial(Ω)p_{\rm inertial}(\Omega)
Ω\Omega

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Omega 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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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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