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What must therefore vanish, identically, is not the slope but the correctly defined curvature-frame component built from it. For any static metric of the form d = -U()^2\,d + \,d d — flat spatial slices, all the position dependence carried by U — the only nonzero Christoffel symbols are = U = and = , both following directly from the metric’s definition. Substituting into the Riemann tensor’s defining combination for the mixed component {}_{0j0} , every term built from purely spatial Christoffels vanishes because the spatial slices are exactly flat, and the two surviving pieces are…
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Equation 82 · Evolutionary Physics
The Bend an Elevator Cannot Fake
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What must therefore vanish, identically, is not the slope but the correctly defined curvature-frame component built from it. For any static metric of the form d = -U()^2\,d + \,d d — flat spatial slices, all the position dependence carried by U — the only nonzero Christoffel symbols are = U = and = , both following directly from the metric’s definition. Substituting into the Riemann tensor’s defining combination for the mixed component {}_{0j0} , every term built from purely spatial Christoffels vanishes because the spatial slices are exactly flat, and the two surviving pieces are…
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The Bend an Elevator Cannot Fake
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Check it against the elevator directly: = gives ' = (g/)/U and '' = -(g/)^2/ = -(')^2 exactly, for every Z , not merely at leading order. The bracket + vanishes identically, and so does {}_{0j0} — confirming, by direct calculation rather than appeal to intuition, that a uniformly accelerated frame carries exactly zero curvature no matter how large its slope g becomes. The naive second difference of U alone, without the quadratic correction, does not vanish in this case — a fact worth stating plainly, because it is exactly the trap a network audit could fall into if it used by itself as its curvature signal.
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The Bend an Elevator Cannot Fake
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a symmetric rank-two tensor in the local spatial frame of the static observers, with units of inverse time squared — the Eötvös units already standard in gravity-gradient surveying, where 1\, = 10^{-9}\, . Under a rotation of the local spatial axes it transforms as an ordinary rank-two tensor; under a change of which node is used as the additive reference for it is unchanged, because it depends only on derivatives of , never its value; and up to the factor 1 negligible at the one-part-in- 10^9 level for any terrestrial network, it is times the frame component {}_{0j0} of the Riemann tensor in the static observers’ own rest frame — a…
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