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Equation 11 · The Atlas That Refuses to Close

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Naming the slice is the first entry in this atlas’s notation. Let Σ\Sigma be a spacelike hypersurface and uμu^\mu the four-velocity of the observer whose notion of simultaneity Σ\Sigma represents, with Σ\Sigma taken orthogonal to u . Replace the discrete sum with the body’s stress-energy tensor TαβT^{\alpha\beta} and define the energy centroid

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