Equation 23 · The Corner of the Equivalence Principle No Experiment Has Touched
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Lay all of it out in one table, rows for experiments and columns for the five components, and four columns get real entries: constrained at the 10^{-15} level by MICROSCOPE, constrained by every dual-species and clock test in the list, constrained at the low- 10^{-9} level by Rosi and colleagues’ internal-superposition test, constrained by Overstreet and colleagues’ gravitational Aharonov-Bohm result. The fifth column, , has nothing in it — not a weak bound, not a preliminary number, nothing. The paper’s proposition on this point is not merely that the entangled component happens to be unmeasured; it proves, within its…
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Lay all of it out in one table, rows for experiments and columns for the five components, and four columns get real entries: constrained at the 10^{-15} level by MICROSCOPE, constrained by every dual-species and clock test in the list, constrained at the low- 10^{-9} level by Rosi and colleagues’ internal-superposition test, constrained by Overstreet and colleagues’ gravitational Aharonov-Bohm result. The fifth column, , has nothing in it — not a weak bound, not a preliminary number, nothing. The paper’s proposition on this point is not merely that the entangled component happens to be unmeasured; it proves, within its operator model, that any experiment performed on separable states of two species — meaning any product of single-system states, internal superpositions included — produces outcome statistics that are provably independent of , because that operator only ever enters through the joint phase of a genuinely nonproduct state. Run every experiment in the table again, in every combination anyone has thought to try, and the entangled column still comes back empty, not from a lack of effort but because separable-state statistics cannot see it by construction.
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- [5] Quantum Test of the Universality of Free Fall ↗
- [6] Quantum test of the Universality of Free Fall using rubidium and potassium ↗
- [4] Atom-Interferometric Test of the Equivalence Principle at the 10⁻¹² Level ↗
- [7] Quantum test of the equivalence principle for atoms in superpositions of internal energy eigenstates ↗
- [10] Observation of a gravitational Aharonov-Bohm effect ↗
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