Equation 57 · The Clock That Comes Back Wrong by Exactly Its Mass
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The two pictures are not independent theories that happen to share a symbol. The Galilei phase is the c residue of the Poincaré non-extension, and the residue can be taken explicitly rather than asserted. Write the energy operator for a system at rest as H=M+ , separating the rest energy from whatever nonrelativistic energy — kinetic, internal — sits on top of it. The relativistic loop phase becomes
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- [2] Galilei Group and Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics ↗
- [3] On the Contraction of Groups and Their Representations ↗
- [4] On Galilei Invariance in Quantum Mechanics and the Bargmann Superselection Rule ↗
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