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Equation 95 · Part 6 · The Clock That Comes Back Wrong by Exactly Its Mass

Symbol m

mop[LG]=ℏΦ/(vrb)=mm_{\rm op}[\mathcal L_{\rm G}]=\hbar\Phi/(v_rb)=m
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What this part means

m is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.

Its job in the formula

m is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.

The passage around this formula

…reproduces a quantity the field already measures by an independent route, not new physics. Inverting the formula returns mopm_{\rm op}[LG\mathcal L_{\rm G}]=ℏ\hbarΦ\Phi/(vrv_rb)=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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