Equation 30 · The Clock That Comes Back Wrong by Exactly Its Mass
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with mass m appearing not as an eigenvalue to be measured state by state but as a fixed number multiplying the identity operator across an entire representation [ 1 , 2 ] . This is what “central” means: the commutator commutes with everything, including and themselves.
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