Equation 92 · The Clock That Comes Back Wrong by Exactly Its Mass
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Symbol v_r
is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
Symbol k_rm eff
m eff is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.
Symbol m
m is an input to the expression that computes the quantity on the left.
=
The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.
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This is an exact analytic evaluation of the formula derived above for stated, idealized parameters — not a simulation, not a measurement, and not the output of any code run for this article. It is offered as illustrative, and it carries a built-in consistency check: because = /m by definition of a recoil kick, the same number equals T/m , the ordinary recoil phase used to extract /m in precision atom-interferometry measurements through the general path-integral formalism for atomic interferometry [ 14 ] . The two expressions are algebraically identical, so this is a check that the loop construction reproduces a quantity the field already measures by…
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This is an exact analytic evaluation of the formula derived above for stated, idealized parameters — not a simulation, not a measurement, and not the output of any code run for this article. It is offered as illustrative, and it carries a built-in consistency check: because = /m by definition of a recoil kick, the same number equals T/m , the ordinary recoil phase used to extract /m in precision atom-interferometry measurements through the general path-integral formalism for atomic interferometry [ 14 ] . The two expressions are algebraically identical, so this is a check that the loop construction reproduces a quantity the field already measures by an independent route, not new physics. Inverting the formula returns []=/(b)=m exactly, because the phase was defined from m in the first place. That circularity is the point of this section: it isolates what an idealized, confound-free evaluation looks like, so the next two sections can show exactly what breaks the idealization.
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