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Equation 112 · Part 1 · The Clock That Comes Back Wrong by Exactly Its Mass

Symbol T

T=1 sT=1\,\mathrm s
TT

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

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

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…make this concrete without simulation, take the weak-field proper-time rate dτ\tau/dt≈\approx1+gz/c2c^2 for a static height z in Earth’s field, so that holding two branches at a height difference Δ\Delta z for coordinate time T gives Δ\Deltaτ\tau≈\approx g\,Δ\Delta z\,T/c2c^2 . For Δ\Delta z=1\,m\mathrm m and T=1\,s\mathrm s , Δ\Deltaτ\tau≈\approx1.090×\times10^{-16}\,s\mathrm s . Pair this with a single-photon optical clock transition near 698\,nm\mathrm{nm} , comparable to the transition used in strontium-lattice-clock proposals for…

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