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Equation 105 · Part 2 · A Reference Frame Becomes Classical by Publishing Its Orientation

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UnU_n
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The reply cannot be a difference in the redundancy number, since by construction the two numbers can be made to agree. It must be a difference in what redundancy costs the source. The classical sensors read a fixed value without disturbing it, so an observer could add a thousand-and-first fragment for free. The quantum construction cannot make that promise: every additional fragment is drawn from a probe that has already interacted with the rotor through UnU_n , and the paper’s own back-action results predict that competence gained by later fragments should trade against residual orientation asymmetry in the source [ 4 , 3 ] . A classical emulator has no such cost curve to reproduce; its…

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