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Equation 40 · Part 7 · The Atlas That Refuses to Close

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∣Δx∣→∣S∣/(Mc)=ρM|\Delta\mathbf x| \to |\mathbf S|/(Mc) = \rho_M
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What this part means

The expressions on both sides represent the same quantity under the stated assumptions.

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The equals sign connects the complete expression on the left with the complete expression on the right. Both sides must have compatible units.

The passage around this formula

a shift transverse to both the spin and the relative velocity [ 13 ] . This is an exact identity of special relativity, not an approximation valid only for small v ; it holds all the way to v →\to c , at which point |Δ\Deltax\mathbf x| →\to |S\mathbf S|/(Mc) = ρM\rho_M exactly, since |S\mathbf S ×\times v\mathbf v| ≤\le |S\mathbf S|\,v saturates when the spin is perpendicular to the boost. No boosted observer, however extreme, can push a body’s own centroid further from its rest-frame value than ρM\rho_M . As u ranges over every inertial observer, Xμ(u,Σ)X^\mu(u,\Sigma) traces out a disk of exactly that radius, orthogonal to S\mathbf S — the world-tube first identified by Møller and reproduced in modern language…

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An equals sign says that the expression on its left and the expression on its right have the same value under the stated definitions and assumptions.

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