Equation 25 · Part 2 · The Corner of the Equivalence Principle No Experiment Has Touched
subscript
subscript
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.
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The passage around this formula
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…
Learn the underlying idea
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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Sources cited in the article section
- [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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