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Equation 58 · Part 6 · The Clock That Comes Back Wrong by Exactly Its Mass

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H=Mc2+HNRH=Mc^2+H_{\rm NR}
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What this part means

The lower label selects a particular version, component, or indexed member of the quantity. For example, x₀ and xₜ can be values at different positions.

Its job in the formula

A subscript distinguishes a version, component, step, or member of a quantity. It does not automatically mean multiplication.

The passage around this formula

The two pictures are not independent theories that happen to share a symbol. The Galilei phase is the c→\to∞\infty 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=Mc2c^2+HNRH_{\rm NR} , separating the rest energy from whatever nonrelativistic energy — kinetic, internal — sits on top of it. The relativistic loop phase becomes

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A subscript is a label attached below a symbol. It often selects a time step, component, category, or member of a sequence.

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