$$\mathcal L_{\rm P}$$

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The second, $\mathcal L_{\rm P}$ , lives in spacetime itself: send a system from event A to event B along worldline $\gamma_0$ , and imagine comparing it against a return trip along the reverse of a different worldline $\gamma_1$ that also connects A to B . The loop closes in space and time — it starts and ends at A — but the two worldlines need not have the same proper time, $\tau_0$$\neq$$\tau_1$ , precisely because proper time is path dependent once gravity or acceleration is present. This is not a new observation; it is the entire content of general relativity’s twin-paradox structure, imported into a single-particle quantum phase by early clock-interferometry proposals [ 10 ] .

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The proper-time loop $\mathcal L_{\rm P}$ is where mass stops being a fixed label and becomes something an object can carry a little more or less of depending on what it is doing internally. A composite system with an internal excitation of energy $\Delta$ E above its ground configuration carries additional rest mass $\Delta$ E/$c^2$ , by ordinary mass–energy equivalence — no redefinition of either the relativistic or the everyday meaning of mass, simply the standard bookkeeping in which a system’s total rest energy M$c^2$ includes whatever internal energy $H_{\rm int}$ it holds: M=$M_0$+$H_{\rm int}$/$c^2$ . If the same object is sent along two paths that differ in proper time by $\Delta$$\tau$ , and its…

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• $L_{\rm P}$: where mass stops being a fixed label and becomes something an object can carry a little more or less of depending on what it is doing internally.

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This objection is not merely an engineering difficulty to be improved away. It is close to a theorem. The weak equivalence principle — the universality of free fall, tested to extraordinary precision using exactly this kind of dual-species interferometry [ 12 ] — guarantees that the center-of-mass trajectory of a falling object cannot depend on its mass or internal composition. Since the dominant term in the standard gravimeter phase is built from that trajectory and from the laser field alone, mass is required to cancel from it; a claimed mass-dependence surviving in the leading term would itself be evidence against the weak equivalence principle, not evidence for a working mass gauge. If…

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• $L_{\rm P}$: going to mean anything operationally, it cannot live in the part of an interferometer phase that the weak equivalence principle already forbids from carrying mass information.

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This is where the operational construction earns or loses its claim to be a mass gauge rather than a definition with no experimental content. Distinguish two separate clauses of Einstein’s equivalence principle. The weak equivalence principle protects the laser/center-of-mass term, forcing it to be mass-independent; that is not this paper’s target, and no version of $\mathcal L_{\rm P}$ challenges it. Local position invariance — the universality of clock rates across spacetime position — is the clause the internal-energy term actually probes, and it is a logically separate statement, untouched by the weak equivalence principle’s guarantee. The kill criterion for this whole construction is now…

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