Equation 137 · The Clock That Comes Back Wrong by Exactly Its Mass
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Step back to what has and has not been shown. Two derivations stand on their own regardless of what any interferometer eventually reports: the Galilei loop’s phase debt is an exact, non-perturbative consequence of a centrally extended commutator that has been established mathematics since 1954, and the Poincaré loop’s failure to produce an analogous fixed charge, together with its c contraction into the Galilei case, follows from standard commutation relations and a standard contraction procedure applied here to one explicit quantity. Those are DERIVED, not proposed.
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