Equation 1 · Part 4 · How Good Can a Clock Ever Be?
Symbol t_P
What this part means
occurs above the fraction bar. The numerator is divided by the entire denominator below it.
Its job in the formula
occurs above the fraction bar. The numerator is divided by the entire denominator below it.
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…Push the clock to that boundary — as large as coherence allows, no larger — and the two prices combine into a floor whose shape is set entirely by the constants already on the table: . one Planck time, , set against however long a lab is willing to average, squared, times a geometry factor χ the paper’s appendix fixes and does not pretend is order-unity by assumption. The exponent is the point, not the coefficient: it is what makes this a floor derived from an accounting of two established…
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