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This is the atlas’s first transition function, and it is worth stating exactly what it does and does not compare. It holds the spin supplementary condition — the rule that picks out a unique centroid once an observer is specified — completely fixed, and varies only the observer. It says nothing yet about what happens if the observer is held fixed and the rule itself is changed; that is the next chart’s business. And it comes with two checks for free. First, a conservation check: and , the body’s total four-momentum and total angular momentum, are identical for every observer in this comparison, since they are the Poincaré charges of one physical state and no relabeling of…
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Equation 50 · Evolutionary Physics
The Atlas That Refuses to Close
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This is the atlas’s first transition function, and it is worth stating exactly what it does and does not compare. It holds the spin supplementary condition — the rule that picks out a unique centroid once an observer is specified — completely fixed, and varies only the observer. It says nothing yet about what happens if the observer is held fixed and the rule itself is changed; that is the next chart’s business. And it comes with two checks for free. First, a conservation check: and , the body’s total four-momentum and total angular momentum, are identical for every observer in this comparison, since they are the Poincaré charges of one physical state and no relabeling of…
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The Atlas That Refuses to Close
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the proper spatial separation within between the two charts’ answers, normalized by the spin-to-mass length fixed in the first section. is dimensionless by construction, symmetric, zero exactly when the two charts coincide, and it has now been checked, not merely asserted, in both directions this kind of construction is required to pass: it vanishes as v/c 0 for any spin, and it vanishes as S 0 for any observer or Lorentz frame. It is bounded above by exactly 1 for the observer-transition case, since || was shown above to saturate rather than merely approach that value. Both checks are this construction’s kill criterion, run rather than…
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