Equation 133 · Part 8 · The Clock That Comes Back Wrong by Exactly Its Mass
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What this part means
A raised number can be a power. When it is a label or bound, it selects a case or the upper limit of a sum; the formula’s structure distinguishes these uses.
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A raised mark can be a power or an index. Its position and the surrounding notation determine which.
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The passage around this formula
No experiment has run the differential two-height, two-internal-state protocol at the meter-and-second scale used illustratively above; it remains a proposal, not a result [ 10 , 11 ] . What existing data already constrain is the space this construction is allowed to occupy. Dual-species atom-interferometric tests of the weak equivalence principle have matched the free-fall trajectories of different atomic species to extraordinary precision by actively canceling the very laser/recoil terms this paper identifies as confounds, which is direct evidence that no large anomalous mass-dependence is hiding in the dominant phase term this construction must avoid [ 12 ] . Separately, ordinary…
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