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…outside it — cannot detect the drift after all, because the binding fields holding its own arms together obey the same emergent wave equation as the signal racing through them, and the arms contract by exactly the factor $\gamma$ = (1 - $v_d^2$/$c_{\mathrm{eff}}^2$)^{-1/2} needed to cancel the timing shift [ 9 ] . That result is not this paper’s discovery — it is Barceló and Jannes’ theorem, cited here at full strength — but its consequence for the crystal experiment is exact: an observer confined entirely to the…

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