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Equation 35 · Part 1 · Every Crystal Has Its Own Speed of Light

Symbol v

v=0.5 ceffv = 0.5\,c_{\mathrm{eff}}
vv

What this part means

v is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.

Its job in the formula

v is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.

The passage around this formula

A fourth fact transfers, but only with a correction the paper computes rather than sets aside. A quasiparticle wavepacket moving at speed v inside the linear window carries an internal clock — a spinor phase, a zitterbewegung oscillation — that runs slow by the familiar factor γ\gamma = (1 - v2v^2/ceff2c_{\mathrm{eff}}^2)^{-1/2} : 1.15 at v = 0.5\,ceffc_{\mathrm{eff}} , 2.29 at 0.9\,ceffc_{\mathrm{eff}} . That dilation is real and, in principle,…

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A variable is a named place for a value. Its letter is a local label: x can mean position in one formula and a data point in another.

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