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Equation 22 · Part 3 · How Fast Can a Horizon Learn Which Path You Took?

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ΓTdec\Gamma T_{\rm dec}
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What this part means

The lower label selects a particular version, component, or indexed member of the quantity. For example, x₀ and xₜ can be values at different positions.

Its job in the formula

A subscript distinguishes a version, component, step, or member of a quantity. It does not automatically mean multiplication.

The passage around this formula

Both are deterministic transformations of the assumed overlap law. Neither is a new field-theory result. Numerically inverting the two binary-entropy equations gives: ΓTdec\Gamma T_{\rm dec}. The table is an analytic computation performed for this proposal, not a simulation or an observation. It says that a common phrase such as “one decoherence time” is underspecified. At the 0.9-bit threshold, a Holevo ceiling appears at almost exactly one inverse rate, while the specified decision task needs about 1.49 inverse rates. At the 0.999-bit threshold the two clocks read about 3.29 and 4.13. The disagreement is finite and predictable.

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A subscript is a label attached below a symbol. It often selects a time step, component, category, or member of a sequence.

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