Equation 132 · Part 1 · The Clock That Comes Back Wrong by Exactly Its Mass
Symbol Δ E
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Δ E is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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Δ E is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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The passage around this formula
This is where the operational construction earns or loses its claim to be a mass gauge rather than a definition with no experimental content. Distinguish two separate clauses of Einstein’s equivalence principle. The weak equivalence principle protects the laser/center-of-mass term, forcing it to be mass-independent; that is not this paper’s target, and no version of challenges it. Local position invariance — the universality of clock rates across spacetime position — is the clause the internal-energy term actually probes, and it is a logically separate statement, untouched by the weak equivalence principle’s guarantee. The kill criterion for this whole construction is now…
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
- [9] Gravitational Redshift in Quantum-Clock Interferometry ↗
- [13] Gravitational Redshift Tests with Atomic Clocks and Atom Interferometers ↗
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