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diag(−Ω2,−Ω2,0)\mathrm{diag}(-\Omega^2,-\Omega^2,0)

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Even a network that has cleared every check above owes one more: any fictitious, non-curvature contribution to a naive second difference has to be ruled out on its own terms, not merely assumed absent. A uniformly rotating platform’s centrifugal potential, -12\tfrac12|Ω\boldsymbol\Omega×\timesr\mathbf r|^2 , has a nonzero Hessian too — for rotation about the z -axis, diag(−Ω2,−Ω2,0)\mathrm{diag}(-\Omega^2,-\Omega^2,0) — but that Hessian is exactly constant across any laboratory-scale network, tied to a rotation axis independently known from astrometry to extraordinary precision, and entirely absent from the trace-free, 2:{-1}:{-1} , 1/r3r^3 -falling pattern a genuine point-like or spherical mass produces. A real…

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Ω2\Omega^2

Symbol Omega^2

Omega2a^2 is squared: multiply the underlying quantity by itself. The square is a mathematical operation, not a second independent variable.

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diag(−Ω2,−Ω2,0)\mathrm{diag}(-\Omega^2,-\Omega^2,0)

Equation 146 · Evolutionary Physics

The Bend an Elevator Cannot Fake

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Even a network that has cleared every check above owes one more: any fictitious, non-curvature contribution to a naive second difference has to be ruled out on its own terms, not merely assumed absent. A uniformly rotating platform’s centrifugal potential, -12\tfrac12|Ω\boldsymbol\Omega×\timesr\mathbf r|^2 , has a nonzero Hessian too — for rotation about the z -axis, diag(−Ω2,−Ω2,0)\mathrm{diag}(-\Omega^2,-\Omega^2,0) — but that Hessian is exactly constant across any laboratory-scale network, tied to a rotation axis independently known from astrometry to extraordinary precision, and entirely absent from the trace-free, 2:{-1}:{-1} , 1/r3r^3 -falling pattern a genuine point-like or spherical mass produces. A real…

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