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  1. Laser and speed
  2. speed of light as an impossibility
  3. Potential to rectify an error in wikipedia
  4. Point masses in GR
  5. Should spacetime transformations make a group?
  6. Question about "A Calorimetric Test of Special Relativity"
  7. bizarre coincidence with Huble Shift and Planck seconds?
  8. Why light?
  9. Expansion of Universe and Time dilation
  10. electron and photons time of flight
  11. Lorentz transformation without the speed of light postulate
  12. How does gravity work?
  13. big bang theory
  14. The Twin Paradox
  15. Why not length contraction?
  16. Einstien's original papers
  17. Minkowski metric
  18. The difference between a metric and the metric tensor
  19. relativity in 2 spatial dimensions
  20. The show of the duel
  21. Event Horizon
  22. Gravity Deflecting Light and Gravity Lensing
  23. Time Dilation....what it means
  24. Moving through Space-Time
  25. Are the formulas that account for aberraion and doppler shift compatible?
  26. Webliography: What is the experimental basis of Special Relativity?
  27. Palatini formalism
  28. combining SR and GR time dilation
  29. Stress energy tensor interpretation
  30. Moving At Light Speed
  31. Anti-Mass and Speed of Light
  32. The Theory of Everything
  33. Train Experiment in Rotation
  34. Length Contraction Evidence?
  35. How come equations don't account for....
  36. How do we know that the stress-energy is a tensor?
  37. Benefits of time dilation / length contraction pairing?
  38. Black holes and gravitons
  39. Time Shift in Wormholes
  40. speed of light constant throughout universe?
  41. Speed Of Light Experiment
  42. What caused time to run slower in a field of gravity
  43. Center of Krunskl Szekeres coordinate
  44. Constant Motion being relative leaves me with a paradox. I must me missing something,
  45. Mass photon
  46. Were some of Einstein's thought experiments carried out later?
  47. In which areas of physics is relativistic mass used?
  48. Question about C and Mass
  49. gravity at very large distance
  50. light <--> mass attraction
  51. Frequent flyer miles for the travelling twin
  52. A baffling quote from Einstein, badly requiring explanation
  53. Tell me what I'm doing wrong (velocity addition in 3+1 dimensions)
  54. Faster than Light Question
  55. time question
  56. Christofel Symbols Tensors?
  57. absolute movement
  58. Einsteins General Relativity Papers- Original
  59. Space and Time
  60. Question about applying the Lorentz Transformation to velocity 4-vectors
  61. Rotating rigid sphere stress-energy tensor
  62. Time dilation
  63. Does space warp reduce the space volume?
  64. Riemann geometry and hydrostatic
  65. can information be transmitted faster than c in inflationary cosmology?
  66. Relativity of simultaneity explained
  67. Disk Rotating Near the Speed of Light
  68. Object falling from rest
  69. Speed of light, mass equation
  70. Faster than light media
  71. The speed of light and gravity
  72. Why does matter even bother?
  73. How mass and time are defined
  74. Gravity and time
  75. constantly accelerating object and its proper time
  76. Mass of fuel would ALSO increase as spaceship comes near the speed of light!
  77. Naive Mass of Photon Question
  78. In twin paradox, Please Help
  79. Relativistic Center of Mass ?
  80. Hypothetically If you were in a spaceship going 0.99999999999...c and you tried......
  81. Time dilation ll
  82. pls help me dissect e=mc^2
  83. the doppler effect on light (red and blue shifts)
  84. I'm confused as to why you can't go faster than light, if you compound velocities
  85. Does time exist without mass?
  86. using einstein field equation
  87. Endless acceleration
  88. What does E=mc^2 mean?
  89. Length contraction
  90. Black Hole Gravity
  91. Gravity and Pressure
  92. The source of gravitational red shift
  93. Math of relativistic space travel
  94. where does space end
  95. Curved Spacetime and Gravity
  96. Can you answer these?
  97. Proper time of an accelerating particle
  98. Ultimate speed limit
  99. Speed of gravity waves
  100. Null coordinates
  101. Lorentz generators
  102. Modificaition in pole and barn paradox
  103. How do you tell you are not in inertial frame of reference
  104. Basic question about speed of light situation
  105. time dilation: most recent & precise experiments
  106. Minkowski Space with object
  107. Lightspeed wave lenghts
  108. Lorentz Transforms + Relativity of Simultaneity
  109. Significance of Special Relativity
  110. 'Poking' the Event Horizon
  111. Curvature using exterior differential forms
  112. change of basis for a metric
  113. Relativistic version of 2nd law of thermodynamics
  114. Does time exist apart from matter?
  115. Does the CMB allow special rest frames to be defined?
  116. Zero connection => Zero torsion tensor ?
  117. Help: Mode Decomposition and Retarded Feilds and Green's functions
  118. problems I have with time.
  119. moving light bulb sphere of photons
  120. Length contraction 2
  121. energy in different frames.
  122. Quantum mechanics vs. postulates of special relativity
  123. Composition of Lorentz pure rotations
  124. Simultaneity - Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity
  125. Why does light fall?
  126. Ether and how it was disproved.
  127. Black Holes and Gravitational Waves
  128. Can the gravitational field create its own gravity?
  129. time question
  130. Helium-3
  131. GR - time dialation at center of a planet
  132. General relativity
  133. My little theory: what would happen?
  134. Just a quick question...
  135. What Keeps A Black Hole Going?
  136. An array of lightclocks
  137. The Hilbert Action
  138. d'Inverno page 226 (tidal force on freely falling particle )
  139. doppler effect for light wave
  140. General Relativity vs. gravitons/force
  141. How does empty space curve?
  142. Future Without Present? If the event at "present" of light cone is missing will....
  143. question on gravitational time dilation...
  144. einstein's train/embankment thought experiment as an example of backward causation...
  145. The Alcubierre Drive and Negative Energy
  146. foliating spacetime
  147. A question on velocity addition
  148. could GR generalized to non-integer dimension??
  149. Gravitational Time Dilation
  150. Parametric Equation of a Sphere in General relativity...
  151. Tidal forces around BH
  152. clarification on length contraction
  153. After finding the Einstein Tensor...
  154. Relativistic motion of a magnetic sail
  155. Gravity & General Relativity
  156. Schwarzschild's radius inquiry
  157. free falling & geodesics
  158. Is there inertial mass-gravity equivalece principle with photons?
  159. synch clocks
  160. Help with SRT and Maxwell
  161. evaporating BH and infalling observers - I am puzzed
  162. What would a time machine look like?
  163. Does matter warp space time in the form of minimal surfaces?
  164. Can physical 3D space exist at all?
  165. Higgs and relativity?
  166. Passing the speed of light
  167. Speed of light, propellent incease in mass?
  168. Time Travel (view point of a non-scientist)
  169. Degrees of freedom in the curvature tensor
  170. Four-momentum of a photon
  171. Is spacetime really curved?
  172. Gravitational lensing - 2 questions
  173. Gravitomangetic B-field units
  174. simultaneous paradox
  175. Breaking the speed of light?
  176. Gravitational Time Dilation & Blueshift
  177. Time dilation #3
  178. Refraction and Special Realitivity
  179. Clocks and boxcars
  180. Density Increasing
  181. Some questions,espacielly about time
  182. Difference between Invariance and Covariance
  183. Specific Solution in GR
  184. Large bodies of mass and their effects on apparent time
  185. Why would an infinite universe tend to contract?
  186. The Present Moment in Spacetime?
  187. How is it that black holes are black?
  188. Black Hole Thermodynamics Resources?
  189. So what if I was in motion and tried to measure my own mass?
  190. light spheres
  191. i need help understanding this stuff
  192. speed of light and mass increase
  193. Fundamental c
  194. Velocity of the Earth
  195. Equivalence Principle & Gravitational Time Dilation
  196. NM's for Wormholes
  197. Relative motion of C on C formula
  198. Photon energies relative to movement, and relativistic mass Q's.
  199. Centrifugal force around planets
  200. Geometrized Units
  201. Frames of reference?
  202. Gravitational acceleration in GR
  203. Is Light Constant in GR
  204. Gravitational Time Dilation - Confused
  205. Physics Emergency!
  206. Proof of relativity
  207. Faster than light
  208. Is this an example of Relativity?
  209. Christoffel symbols etc. via Lagrangian
  210. Are black holes bosons or fermions?
  211. How does gravity tend to propagate?
  212. Bent space
  213. Why is the speed of light restricted?
  214. Event Horizons / Time Dilation
  215. Is each level of a group of systems representative of gravitational time dilation?
  216. Time dilation... but for who??
  217. Your favourite gedanken?
  218. Raising indices in curved space
  219. Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB)
  220. a copernicus/relativity question
  221. tensors versus differential forms
  222. Coordinate independence
  223. There is no "Transverse Gravitatonal Redshift"
  224. Philosophic comments on time in Relativity.
  225. So what's next for Einstein's Relativity?
  226. Gravitational blueshift and a Moving Mass
  227. Escaping a black hole
  228. Epsilon-delta?
  229. Mass (both relativistic and rest) of a photon
  230. Can general relativity derive from superstring theory?
  231. Time Dilation and Gravity's Effect on Light
  232. Energy & momentum in non-Minkowski coordinates
  233. Bending of space
  234. Potential Energy and energy conservation in General Relativity
  235. Twin Paradox- a quick(ish) question
  236. Question Regarding Electromagnetic Fields in Special Relativity
  237. Relativistic Energy of Antimatter
  238. Conceptual Question about the Change in Mass
  239. Transient mass fluctuations
  240. Centripetal thrust need at high-speed
  241. Coriolis effect and relativity
  242. Getting stuff out of a black hole using a second one
  243. gravitation/general relativity (minus math)
  244. Cosmological Constant and the Colapse of the Universe
  245. Path of an object
  246. Our light cone was a black hole
  247. connection between fabric of space, max. speed (of light) and time dilation
  248. The doppler radar trap paradox on the path to gravity.
  249. Superman's Helicopter
  250. Time dilation and gravitational constant
  251. Adding momentum in STR and DSR?
  252. Where is a light year inside the earth?
  253. Photons, gravity, and the bending of light.
  254. Summation convention and index placement
  255. Gravitational redshift and black holes
  256. Can photons create their own gravity?
  257. On pressure inside a stellar body - relativistically
  258. Can we predict which reference frame is correct?
  259. beginner needs answers to basic questions about the speed of light
  260. High relativistic speed + entanglement
  261. 4-velocity
  262. Acceleration and twin paradox question
  263. Gravity question: Why do things fall?
  264. Does a black hole have "shape?"
  265. Speed of Light Always The Same?
  266. Hawking radiation: why only one way?
  267. 1st Law of Black Hole Mechanics
  268. time:magnitude and direction?
  269. simultenaity
  270. Is there a Space-Time Curvature equation?
  271. how to draw a spacetime diagram
  272. Circling spaceship
  273. Causal set theory
  274. Why is faster than light travel so bizarrely 'addressed'
  275. What would it actually look like?
  276. Special relativity and Earth in context to a stationary point
  277. Relativity-I think!!
  278. how long would it take?
  279. How are gauge transformations linked to degrees of freedom?
  280. closed timelike curves
  281. Tensor index exercises
  282. Getting to the speed of light
  283. Will our sun become black hole if it were moving fast enough?
  284. Speed of light spacecraft
  285. Polarization vectors
  286. Using a computer to calculate Einstein tensor etc.
  287. How time Travel work ????
  288. Beginner's question on bending of space time and measuring distance to stars
  289. The "Photon's Perspective" Taboo
  290. How do you prove that the speed of light is absolute
  291. coupled nonlinear partial differential equations or simple matrices?
  292. Illustrations
  293. Quantum Gravity
  294. Can't get time dilation to add up
  295. which Book for Pauli-Fiertz langrangian
  296. de Sitter space
  297. Reduced density matrices and Lorentz transformation
  298. Kaluza-Klein primer
  299. Matrix equation in SL(2,C)
  300. E=mc2
  301. Detection of Gravitational Waves
  302. relativity of distances/lengths
  303. Time travel
  304. How fast to go 1000 years into the future
  305. Does spacetime curvature of EM field affect zero-charge particles?
  306. Interpretation of spacetime diagrams.
  307. Axxis moving parallel to another
  308. Close to light speed visualization question
  309. Time limit
  310. DeBroglie and Time Dilation Paradox
  311. Superman time travel
  312. History of Gravity
  313. Free-falling vs Fermi-Walker
  314. Are proper travel distances contracted by SR?
  315. 2D Null Geodesic Solution
  316. Question about SR and increasing mass
  317. Feynman's perihelion of mercury calculation using field theory
  318. Giving a lecture...
  319. Doppler Effect on Light
  320. Spacetime Translational Invariance vs(?) Lorentz Covariance
  321. relative perspective
  322. mass + potential kinetic energy
  323. Light speed laser pointer war
  324. Tricky Pauli matrices
  325. KE and relativity
  326. Black Holes and Relativity
  327. Gravity Wave & Light Wave Journeys
  328. constant velocity vs accelerating source
  329. Difference in age ??
  330. Confused in a thought-experiment...
  331. need help understanding an equation
  332. Large Scale Structure of Spacetime Study Group
  333. Velocity addition formula
  334. Is the behavior of light that remarkable?
  335. most basic of thought experiments in special relativity
  336. Relativistic Mass and Energy Convservation
  337. seconds passed
  338. Time
  339. Send Particle Backwards in Time - Is this a hoax?
  340. Effect before Cause:absolute horizon
  341. Neutron Stars and Special Relativity
  342. EPR Paradox and implications for QM
  343. Insight
  344. Einstein field equations (EFE's)
  345. Question about gravity
  346. How does time dilation really work?
  347. Affine parameter along a geodesic
  348. Administrative suggestion
  349. cosmological constant
  350. Help with a really nerdy calculation?
  351. proper time
  352. The beautiful sight of the interstellar traveller
  353. Length EXPANSION?!!!
  354. Photon/particle's energy in General Relativity
  355. SR & the empty FRW model
  356. Role of Exclusion principle in formation of black holes.
  357. Lorentz Contraction of a Moving Parabola
  358. Faster than the speed of light with only a fishing line!
  359. A different take on the Schwarzschild Metric
  360. Invariance of E and B
  361. Unbound and unstable orbits
  362. Spatial curvature in Schwarzschild & FRW
  363. Is the speed of light a velocity or acceleration?
  364. Breaking Light and Einstein-Rosen Bridges?
  365. Vectors and the Speed of Light?
  366. Metric tensor definition
  367. Gravity by James B Hartle
  368. am i moving
  369. Help! My Brain is Melting!
  370. Confusion
  371. problem with constant C
  372. A dark part of special relativity(at least for me)
  373. why isn't gravity the result of a variable speed of light?
  374. Twin paradox
  375. A question about special relativity, Please Help
  376. Electromagnetic General Relativity
  377. radius of the accretion disc?
  378. Length contraction?
  379. What exactly is meant when people say that a Light Cone is "tilting"?
  380. Principle of Relativity and Constancy of Light
  381. Ether
  382. The Relativity of Simultaneity
  383. Total energy at zero rest mass
  384. Do photons age?
  385. Is there time at the speed of light?
  386. Time Travel Theory
  387. Twistors
  388. Hubble Effect
  389. Kretschmann Scalar
  390. Kerr metric, singularities in Boyer-Lindquist and Cartesian coordinates
  391. Help me understand the twin rocket experiment
  392. Magnetic relativity
  393. Length contraction: a question about tramwheels
  394. A little paradox in relativity.
  395. Derivation of Wormhole Mouth Mass/Charge?
  396. [help]how to obtain gravity eqution from gravity field Action S?
  397. Black Hole Horizon Information
  398. A few "paradoxes" in STR
  399. Falling down an infinitely deep well
  400. A thing that confuses me (quasi-paradox)
  401. Accelerated twin is OLDER?
  402. Hyperbolic angle
  403. What light does
  404. The God Photon
  405. Our past is not our past?
  406. Is speed of time c, atleast for someone travelling at speed of light?
  407. Gravity distorts space-time?
  408. Verify special relativity by concept "light clock"
  409. Time and Space
  410. the principle of relativity
  411. Compact Sapcetime and Time Travel
  412. Postulate 2
  413. the gravitational redshift
  414. Does an observer on a carousel see a horizon?
  415. Horizon for Contant Acceleration
  416. Blackhole Escape Velocity
  417. Where does gravity pull?
  418. Superluminal velocities & redshift
  419. Gravity: Time Dilation or Death
  420. Special relativity
  421. speed of time?
  422. Redshift of Sound in a Gravitational Field
  423. Problems with scale
  424. special relativity
  425. Capacitor paradox
  426. Wormole and reactionless drive
  427. Twin Paradox (I know...not again)
  428. Mass vs Gravity
  429. mass warping time, question/ interpretation
  430. Speedy ship flies through the sun
  431. Penrose Diagram
  432. relativity
  433. The trivial constant force acceleration math
  434. Conceptual GR question (regarding orbit paths)
  435. Time Dilation, who is aging slower?
  436. Special Relativity Time Travel to Future - Could You Watch the News on Earth?
  437. Confused about Equivalence Principle
  438. Electromagnetic version of the positive energy theorem?
  439. Behavior of a tangent light beam to an event horizon?
  440. Mass energy equivalence
  441. Lorentz transformations derived using dimensional analysis?
  442. Tesnsors and Units Consistancy
  443. Mass due to velocity
  444. Does time speed up as space expands
  445. Time dilation effects on spinning object
  446. Relativity Theory and Quantum Theory
  447. White Holes question
  448. what are the implication of einstein's definition of space time?
  449. What is Feynman's excess radius for a black hole?
  450. gravitons and warping
  451. Special Relativity Basics
  452. Unification of Gravity versus General Relativity -- The Ubiquity of Contradiction
  453. Riemann curvature tensor and nonlinear operator
  454. Simultaneity, does it confuse causality?
  455. When does Newton's Gravitation fail us?
  456. Understanding Einstein's Twin Paradox, past the usual level?
  457. two spaceships that pass in the night
  458. Trouble understanding gravity
  459. Electric is Magnetic - Relativistically speaking
  460. Gravity in relativity.
  461. SR and classical Doppler shift
  462. increasing mass approachng c.
  463. Mass inside a black hole
  464. Problem with Rubber and Metal Ball Analogy
  465. Earths rotation and special relativity
  466. gravimagetism motor!
  467. The visible universe and the speed of light
  468. Speed increases mass, which increases gravity?
  469. Local inertial frame
  470. Time travel.
  471. Why there can be only one invariant speed
  472. Functionals
  473. Crossing event horizon and Hawking radiation
  474. blueshift
  475. Ampere from SRT again
  476. question about the effect of c on light
  477. Question about light clock.
  478. Lorentz Generators, Srednicki eq. 2.13
  479. Schwarzschild Metric: The Sun
  480. The metric tensor
  481. What sort of "vector" is this?
  482. moving emitter
  483. Cosmological Constant and Planck Length in relativity
  484. a few questions on time
  485. Question about 'uniform' pseudo-field felt by accelerating observer
  486. .99c
  487. Relativistic Angular Momentum?
  488. GR: body at rest
  489. Lengths perpendicular to relative motion are unchanged
  490. Information loss via black Holes
  491. c
  492. Getting the Ricci and metric tensor from T ?
  493. Einstein on the relativity of distance.
  494. Can gravitational blue shift happen without gravitational time dilation?
  495. why cant special reletivity and newtonian theory of gravity agree?
  496. Apparent paradox: e=mc^2 violates conservation of energy?
  497. Does J go to inf when v goes to c?
  498. is equivalence principal really true?
  499. What does it mean if a transformation is 'linear'?
  500. Question on linearity of Lorentz transformations
  501. addition of velocities
  502. .5 c
  503. Confusions over general relitivity
  504. Minimum travel time
  505. Perception vs. Reality-relativity of time
  506. acceleration
  507. Simply Connected Universe/Poincare Conjecture Question
  508. The danger of FTL?
  509. Energy, Mass and Frames
  510. Lorentz Transformation
  511. Questions!!!!
  512. Some Questions on Time Dilation.
  513. Is newton's 3rd law wrong?
  514. Why is the speed of light... erm... the speed of light?
  515. Killing vectors for Anti desitter space in 3+1
  516. E=m
  517. Special relativity and acceleration
  518. Integral or Statistical Mechanics
  519. How does mass know that space is curved?
  520. the Einstein equation
  521. acceleration in relativity
  522. How does the GR field equation reduce to Newton's law of gravity?
  523. rubber sheet analogy - density change
  524. Is there any derivation of length contraction through proper lenght?
  525. Alpha centuri.....4 light year relative to who?
  526. how can two objects colliding and merging have a bigger mass?
  527. TWIN PARADOX-What's that??
  528. Momentum in SR
  529. Thought experiment concerning worldlines
  530. Simulating relativity in a velocity verlet algorithm
  531. My twin galaxy puzzle! Please help
  532. Overview of the topic and current topics/unsolved problems
  533. Published definitions of rapidity
  534. acceleration due to gravity
  535. Faster than light
  536. Black Hole; Gravity & Speed Within Questions
  537. Bell's spaceship paradox --- reversed
  538. Special relativity missunderstood
  539. "Swimming" in space-time
  540. SR effects at the center of a planet
  541. Switching from pressure to energy density on a stress energy tensor
  542. Can someone explain time dilation w.r.t following experiment?
  543. What is "gauge" in General Relativity?
  544. Gravitational Field & Reference Frames
  545. Is mass creating time?
  546. Gravity
  547. Thermodynamics of Spacetime: The Einstein Equation of State?
  548. Beginner's Minkowski diagram / space-time interval question
  549. what came first Gravity or Curvature
  550. confusion is speed of light
  551. Evidence for infinites at light speed.
  552. Christoffel Symbols for Schwarzschild Metric (?)
  553. Div curl black holes
  554. confusion between simultanety and time dialation
  555. orthonormal basis in fermi coordinates
  556. What if light clock experiment was done on top of train?
  557. No SR time dilation without Lorentz contraction
  558. Trying to follow i "beginer's" proof/derivation from relativity demistified.
  559. Curvature of spacetime, Matter vs Energy
  560. Gravitational Redshift for Photon around Kerr Black Hole
  561. Is gravity a force, or curvature of space-time?
  562. From where comes Gravity energy?
  563. Interpretation of Flamm Paraboloid
  564. Does the curvature of SpaceTime Disprove gravity?
  565. Time dilation for clock thrown up and caught back
  566. what are the meanings of coordinates ?
  567. Twin paradox in Big Crunch
  568. Please show me my error
  569. Question on Light speed
  570. Acceleration & Mass relationship
  571. Magnetism and Relativity
  572. Question about black holes
  573. Time Dilation From Velocity
  574. Help me understand SR
  575. F.O.R. and Acceleration/Deceleration Question
  576. Rotating Charged Black-Hole?
  577. Very Long Distance Phone Call
  578. simple time theory questions
  579. Thought Experiment
  580. Constant acceleration rocket
  581. Eintein's theory of relativity
  582. length contraction in a current carrying wire?
  583. Relativistic mass,momentum and energy.
  584. gravitational collapse to form a black hole
  585. Gravity/Curved Spacetimes effect on Time
  586. Further from Earth...
  587. Can light speed be exceeded?
  588. Simultaneity in Relativity
  589. What happens when you enter a black hole
  590. Can I really not tell if I am in motion?
  591. c plus and ACAUSALITY in accelerating systems
  592. Is this explanation of E=mc^2 correct or incorrect and why?
  593. Why should the action be Lorentz invariant?
  594. Time 101
  595. Time dilation
  596. When adding up velocities, is it possible to produce 1+1=1?
  597. Apparent speed > c?
  598. Equivalence Principal, Acceleration, Curved Space
  599. Black Body in Motion
  600. Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP)
  601. time dilation
  602. Light and time travel
  603. Relative Acceleration Across a Potential Difference
  604. Is Action&Reaction Strictly Synchronous
  605. Acceleration in Born rigidity
  606. Special relativity fundamental question
  607. Is c invariant in Accelerating frames?
  608. Relative object speed question
  609. spacetime in a sphere
  610. Can SR and GR be combined.
  611. A question on photons
  612. Still learning about special relativity, need help.
  613. Confused by an example in Brian Greene's book and SR in general
  614. Relativistic effects on apparent angular size
  615. Velocity or Gravity creates mass?
  616. Extended coulomb´s law
  617. maxima question
  618. What do real physicists use
  619. General Relativity for Dummies
  620. Clock hands
  621. Einstein’s return to ether, what future of relativity?
  622. Some Burning Questions about Time Dilation
  623. Confused about Velocity Based Time Dilation
  624. michelson morley
  625. Simultaneity of events in 2 dimensions
  626. Is light speed faster coming from a smaller star?
  627. contravariant derivative
  628. Speed of gravity
  629. Can GR be formulated as background dependent?
  630. About how light clocks would work
  631. Lorentz factor semplification
  632. Spinning stick
  633. Is everything "else" blackhole?
  634. 5-Point Curvature Detector?
  635. Infinite mass = infinite gravity !?
  636. Schwarzschild Geometry
  637. Where does Carroll get eq. 4.64
  638. Travelling In A Straight Line In Space
  639. Itchy and Scratchy on a Train
  640. Time span or time flow
  641. help understanding special relativity concepts please.
  642. old question?
  643. The equivalence principle
  644. (absence of) temporal aberration: the most precise data?
  645. Help understanding e=mc^2
  646. Speed of Space-Time
  647. Is it realy true that nothing can travel faster than light? if so, why?
  648. How fast are we really moving?
  649. Are Lorentz transforms unique?
  650. Pauli's review article
  651. Dual of the inertial observer
  652. wigner rotation
  653. Geodesic and inertial frame
  654. SR question
  655. Question on Space time geometry
  656. better understanding of causality
  657. Is a falling elevator a valid inertial frame????
  658. Creating black holes through relative motion
  659. Structure of Minkowski Space
  660. mass in SR
  661. General Relativity and Minkowski space question
  662. Accelerating twin.
  663. Fermi normal coordinates
  664. Thought experiment: Orbiting bodies close to C
  665. shortening of spaceships
  666. General gravity wave question
  667. Another 'photon's reference frame' thread
  668. The Fourier-Minkowski transform?
  669. Absolute or relative TIME
  670. Why is the speed of light constant and independent from the observer?
  671. Space Time "Fabric" limit?
  672. A new interpretation of ether
  673. The vacuum Einstein equations and flat spacetime
  674. Conservation law at high speeds
  675. A thought experiment doubt on General Relativity.
  676. space-time fluid
  677. stress tensor
  678. The scaling of metric coefficients by changing units
  679. Speed of light dilated
  680. Speed of Gravity? Questions about the Kopeikin Experiment of Sept 8 2002
  681. STR 'rotation'.
  682. "You can't exceed the speed of light"
  683. Lorentz or Poincare invariant?
  684. covariant Green's function for wave equation
  685. Information content of the metric, Riemannian and Ricci tensors
  686. time travel when velocity> light speed
  687. Does the mass of a spring decreases if we compress it because we have stored energy?
  688. A thought Experiment on velocity greater than C
  689. Tension
  690. Inverse Square Law + Special Relativity
  691. GR correspondence to reality
  692. Planck units and relativity
  693. Having velocity of light is like having infinite Velocity!!!
  694. LHC particle mass increase
  695. Elegant Universe Example
  696. Suppose relative v in S <> -v in S'
  697. Velocity translating into weight?
  698. Decelerating from light speed
  699. How exactly to calculate the age difference in "Twin paradox"
  700. Proper acceleration question
  701. Just when I started to get things straught in my head.
  702. One-way speed of light
  703. Question on General Relativity
  704. How to judge the symmetry of spacetime?
  705. Black hole Questions
  706. Introduction to SR
  707. calculation involving angular momentum
  708. Observers at light speed
  709. Time dilation formula?
  710. black hole - contradiction to the Pauli exclusion principle?
  711. the change spatial distance between 2 events
  712. Challenge: superluminal average speed
  713. Time dilation in uniform field?
  714. Objects at the Speed of Light question
  715. So clocks in motion are 'slower' to observers in rest, shouldn't the clocks tick less
  716. Light travel in media
  717. Modified Car and ditch paradox!!!
  718. why lower index on components?
  719. Is there any difference left between time and space left?
  720. Negative time Minkowski metric
  721. What is happening when travelling towards light?
  722. Gravitational acceleration of relativistic objects.
  723. What does the travelling twin actually see?
  724. red shift and the train thought experiment
  725. Complex General Relativity
  726. the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit.
  727. lorentz transformations and the expansion of space
  728. Looking for a specific unusual solution to Einstein's field equations
  729. Are closed time like curves an inherent feature of rotating universe models?
  730. Einstein's use of ponderomotive force
  731. Gravitomagnetic waves?
  732. A Thought About LIGO
  733. I finally figured out how to ask my question
  734. Constant speed of light
  735. Minkowski vs deSitter: hyperbolic vs spherical?
  736. Are all time machines flawed?
  737. Is Distance/space Lorentz contracted?
  738. Pinhole Train
  739. Absolute Energy
  740. Why AND HOW could Time Slow DOWN?
  741. Invariant functions of the four-momenta
  742. Space-time diagrams
  743. Redshifting help?
  744. Beginner's Light Clock question
  745. Spatial curvature - effect on objects
  746. Who is in motion?
  747. Two Black Hole Questions
  748. Minkowski in 5-D: what is the fifth?
  749. Relativity on an Atomic Scale
  750. Length contraction falling down a hole.
  751. running away from a beam of light
  752. Relativistic paradox involving torsion.
  753. Can someone help a novice unbeliever?
  754. Deriving f(R) field equations
  755. Light Clock in a Gravity well ????
  756. Equivalence between a Black Hole and travelling at the speed of light
  757. Pair of moving charges -- confused
  758. Expansion of Space
  759. GR weak field approx. problem with Dunsby's notes
  760. a question about relativity
  761. Hawking radiation by the eyes of the falling observer.
  762. Length Contractions
  763. General relativity done another way?
  764. Thinking bout the Special Theory of Relativity
  765. Why is light travelling in "straight" line? (see restrictions)
  766. Constance of speed of light and refraction index question
  767. Transforming the electric field
  768. Universal cover of AdS
  769. Speeding black hole?
  770. Gravitational Force between Moving Bodies
  771. Speed of light and time
  772. example and question
  773. Fractal dimension of CMBR? Cluster distribution?
  774. Independent Components in Riemann-Christoffel Tensor
  775. Simple Question-I hope-difference between SP and GP
  776. speed of light question
  777. Time machine
  778. Physical meaning of tensor fields
  779. Collisions of particles
  780. Time Dilation-Frames-Details and hypotheticals
  781. How can light be a constant?
  782. What happens with a 'Light in a box theory'
  783. Why light speed is constant? (please read)
  784. Acceleration and velocity: newtonian versus relativistic interpretation.
  785. Is Ehrenfest paradox possible
  786. General Lorenz transformation is not group
  787. Confused
  788. Does Schwarzschild Solution work inside a massive body?
  789. Spacetime - formal description of No Rip/Tear
  790. Minkowski metric tensor computation
  791. Time Dilation Problem
  792. Particle bunching +Lorentz contraction
  793. SR and GR in a medium, gravitational waves
  794. Collapse of charged/rotating black hole
  795. Spacetime, curvature, orbit, matter and reactions
  796. The arrow of time
  797. why is energy the "time" counterpart of momentum
  798. is poincare group simply connected?
  799. Force & S.relativity
  800. what is galileian system of coordinate?
  801. Light Cone
  802. Is variation pricip for light-geodetic correct?
  803. How can black holes actually ever exist?
  804. Time and Space Continuums
  805. Time dilation
  806. Lorentz Transformation in New Coordinates
  807. The twins-some values.
  808. Time measuring in relativity
  809. Free Fall Acceleration to c
  810. Is there something behind a horizon?
  811. Sum of the angles in 4D coordinates system
  812. Confusion about relativity
  813. Michelson Morley revisited
  814. History of theories of motion; the role of inertia
  815. How is singularity formed inside a black hole?
  816. Does forces travel faster than speed of light?
  817. What is the metric in DSR ??
  818. Time travel and space travel
  819. Travel in space to Alpha Centuri
  820. Maxima software for use in GR
  821. Inverse Funcation of Relativistic mass
  822. Question about the limit of velocity as a moving mass is converted to kinetic energy
  823. Electromagnetic field in a medium
  824. Help me to Understand: I am traveling at 90% of the speed of light.
  825. about LTB metric
  826. Curved space?
  827. Curved Space
  828. Equation with Riemann curvature tensor
  829. time dilation b/c of Gravitaional field strength
  830. derivation help
  831. Combining Time Dilation from velocity and gravity
  832. Travel to Parallel Universes
  833. Graviton
  834. How we compute killing vector for two-sphere
  835. Black Holes Relation To "Time"
  836. parallel parallels
  837. Topology in GR
  838. One-forms and vectors
  839. General & Special Relativity, Everyday Examples
  840. Trying to generally understand Relativity.
  841. Strong Equivalence Principle
  842. Mass/energy as a "condition of spacetime"
  843. brane world
  844. Mass and the interval metric
  845. Question about how the speed of light is constant
  846. Relativistic particle scattering
  847. How to accelerate time?
  848. uniformity of universe expansion
  849. Gravitational mass vs inertial mass
  850. Time in a black hole and Weyl curvature
  851. tunneling does not carry information > c?
  852. Extreme relativity question
  853. Constraints on speed of light?
  854. Constant Velocity Motion In Train Car
  855. Dual basis in Minkowski space
  856. Final Clarification
  857. Why does a photon have zero rest mass?
  858. Creating Repulsive and Attractive Gravity
  859. Is it technically correct to say matter is made of energy
  860. Time Dilation and Future Interstellar Travel
  861. Scaling Paradox.
  862. Problem with four vectors
  863. New Image from Chandra X Ray Observatory
  864. Aging during space travel
  865. What are the weaknesses of Einstein's GR ?
  866. Gravitational potential energy in GR
  867. Does Einstein implicitly proves himself and the Lorentz Transformation wrong?
  868. spaceships at right angles
  869. Gravitational effects on photons
  870. Definition of energy in general relativity
  871. waves in a vacum
  872. Time dilation at an unchanging velocity
  873. Relativity of rotating system(s)
  874. No (Lorentz) Invariant tensor of rank 3?
  875. vacuum energy destruction of wormhole
  876. Schwarzschild solution and velocity of stationary observer
  877. Geometrodynamics
  878. Gravitational Waves Papers
  879. Paradox on Special Relativity
  880. Question about relativity example
  881. Is there any Limit to the kinetic energy
  882. Speed of light at an angle
  883. Is time really a dimension?
  884. question on time dialation
  885. A possible "uncrossable" boarder between bradyons and hypothetical tachyons...
  886. Curved/Warped space
  887. How is Constant speed of light referenced
  888. Evidence that space and time has equal footing?
  889. Euclidean Geometry
  890. space expansion
  891. Close space after big bang
  892. Symmetry Argument
  893. Equivalence (?) inside a rocket
  894. Simple question from a newbie
  895. Photon's frame of refernce
  896. Is Relativistic Mass Plausible?
  897. i think i figured out gravity, really
  898. Numerical Relativity: Components of the Lapse Function?
  899. Parallel transport and geodesics
  900. A thought experiment to aid my undertsanding
  901. beginner's question on GM
  902. Less elapsed time: Lorentz Transformation or Spacetime Interval ?
  903. Einstein energy
  904. Curved spacetime: embedded or not?
  905. Can someone explain Gravitational Time dilation?
  906. View from a spaceship at relativistic speeds
  907. Is Angular Velocity, Momentum, and Energy Frame Invariant
  908. Spacetime manifold: initial condition or result of GR?
  909. Schwarzchild spacetime singularity
  910. Why do really fast speeds keep you from aging or "feeling time"?
  911. Curved spacetime and imaginary coordinate
  912. Minkowski norm
  913. Cancer developing in different RF's
  914. Retrieving Information from Black Holes (Please repond)
  915. Effective potential and geodesics in G.R.
  916. Proof set of one-forms is a vector space
  917. Geons the missing mass?
  918. Electromagnetic blackhole violates 2nd law of thermodynamics?
  919. Gaussian to MKS Four-vector Conversion
  920. Projection operator
  921. Geosynchronous Orbits
  922. Does coupling to stress-energy imply coupling to Ricci?
  923. Ask about the 1919 experiment
  924. light ray paths near schwarzschild blackhole
  925. Dilation & Contraction--First Post
  926. Wormholes -- too fleeting to be detected?
  927. Stress-energy tensor
  928. rotating disks and time dilation
  929. Help with energy-mass equivalence!
  930. Black Hole Time Machine (time dilation)
  931. Has Gravity Probe B proved framed dragging
  932. Relative simultaneity...
  933. Really moving. What does Bridgman mean.
  934. Can someone explain this time dilation problem to me?
  935. Some tensor theorems
  936. Blueshift question
  937. grtensor 5d???
  938. Space-time fabric
  939. Causality... who needs it?
  940. Relativity of Time Dilation
  941. Constancy of light speed implied in time and clocks !
  942. So gravity and accel can be transformed into eachother, but what about...
  943. Length Contractions
  944. Gravitational time dilation question
  945. the speed of gravitational field propagation
  946. Invariant Tensors in GR and SR
  947. Light in the box gravity - question.
  948. Time Dilation Paradox (variant distance between two accelerating bodies)
  949. In simplest terms, what is null dust?
  950. Conservation of Mass
  951. Misner-Thorne-Wheeler, p.92, Box 4.1, typo?
  952. Black holes and singularities
  953. A deviation from General Relativity on cosmic scales...
  954. photon gravity
  955. Simulating electron beam - what equations to use?
  956. Inverse square law
  957. basic question about relativity
  958. We can't determine who is moving?
  959. Lorentz Transformation
  960. Does Hubble's law implies accelerated expansion?
  961. Has anybody read this book on relativity?
  962. How the universe looks like at the speed of light
  963. Spinning "tornado" wheel - circumference and radius
  964. Kruskal and Penrose diagrams for a Minkosky spacetime
  965. Inside a black hole : looking for an animation
  966. Schwarzschild & Kerr black holes geometries
  967. About BH singularities
  968. grtensor
  969. Derivation of E=mc2
  970. Temperature during black hole collapse
  971. Derivation of momentum & energy formulas
  972. Relatvity of Vectors
  973. Three questions related to the principle of general covariance in GR
  974. Why is not scalar field?
  975. Chapter: The mechanisms behind Non-Simultaneity
  976. A few questions about the Lorentz factor
  977. Meaning of Lorentz Transformations purely mathematically ?
  978. Value of c and strange things that don't happen when at c
  979. How are watches syncronized
  980. Velocity addition
  981. Say gravity were larger, matter "burns" faster?
  982. Radius of Universe, electrons, and strings.
  983. Mmi
  984. linearized gravity
  985. empty space time
  986. Lightcones around Kerr ring
  987. Special relativity argument
  988. Gaussian Co-ordinates-background and derivation
  989. Special Relativity Questions
  990. Relativity and sound?
  991. Speed of light in gravity
  992. Light Cones / QM
  993. A Few General Questions About Special Reletivity
  994. Time Dilation and/or Kinetic energy the same/different?
  995. Reciprocal Lorentz Contraction Mismatch
  996. Is this an Ill-posed Question?
  997. Is black hole elementary particle?
  998. Speed of light vertical and horizontal in gravity
  999. Does space and time act differently at different scales?
  1000. Doing General Relativity with Cartesian coordinates?
  1001. Acceleration in an inertial worldline?
  1002. Four-vector from 3 space components?
  1003. Explanation of Wiki regarding Geodesics as Hamiltonian Flows:
  1004. Wormhole Time Machine: As Time Goes On
  1005. Reason for positive energy
  1006. Is this idea of time travel consistent with relativity?
  1007. 45 dergree mirrors in Special Relativity
  1008. Slowly add mass to a neutron star till it collapses.
  1009. The “Grand Father” paradox is flawed.
  1010. [Special relativity - Mathematical background] Tensor and pseudo-tensor
  1011. Mass expansion
  1012. Expanding universe and light detection
  1013. Bivectors, Cartan Geometry and Curvature
  1014. Shrinking circles
  1015. Energy Density of the gravitational field
  1016. Anti-matter black-hole, matter black hole, different?
  1017. What is Cosmological Costant?
  1018. Relativistic Acceleration Contradiction
  1019. Trying to understand the "Why" or Relativity.
  1020. Has einsteins experient with time been proven, why hasn't it been applied or used
  1021. Principle of Least Action - Straight Worldline on a Geodesic
  1022. Ricci Tensor in Empty Space
  1023. Relativity and Uncertainty
  1024. Question about equivalence principle
  1025. Spacetime and Newton's bucket
  1026. The Greatest Time Traveler
  1027. Gravitational redshift and time dilation
  1028. Faster than the speed-of-light
  1029. confusion about a laser shining perpendicular to a moving inertial frame
  1030. why is invariant interval invariant?
  1031. General Question about Gravitational Potential & General Relativity
  1032. Does c-invariance in SR postulate need inertial frames ?
  1033. Time
  1034. Law of reflection in SR
  1035. how is mass density affected by speeds near c?
  1036. How is the -(ct)^2 term in Minkowski metric conceived?
  1037. Slow clocks on moving body is an illusion?
  1038. Continuous application of Lense-Thirring precession: flyby anomalies
  1039. Tensor Integration
  1040. Einsteins gravity theory (bending space) question
  1041. Diving into a Black Hole
  1042. Matrix Formalism of GR
  1043. theory of relativity second postulate
  1044. Lorentz contraction
  1045. Need help understanding the twins
  1046. local detectability of frame-dragging
  1047. Gravitational redshift and time dilation
  1048. Relative Energy Generator
  1049. GPS and time dilation
  1050. Exactly how is causality violated by superluminal travel?
  1051. Q. about Bradley's Stellar Aberration
  1052. Configuration comparison.
  1053. Relativity confusion
  1054. question tensors
  1055. Equivalence principle to other forces?
  1056. Power Required to Accelerate Space Craft to Near Light Speed
  1057. Relative motion and time dilation
  1058. Space contraction and stress.
  1059. electric resonance in a moving frame
  1060. old question
  1061. Special Relativity.
  1062. Merging Black Holes & the Nature of Time
  1063. Time Dilation equation questions
  1064. GR in Matrix format
  1065. How do black holes gain mass?
  1066. question
  1067. Moving observer can see what?
  1068. Energy conservation in relativity
  1069. Energy density of grav. field - analagous to EM
  1070. Charged particle in free fall
  1071. riding on a photon
  1072. Does spacetime could curved in a "square way"?
  1073. why Hawking radiation contains other particles besides photon?
  1074. Relative motion, frames
  1075. problem
  1076. How to study Gravitational Redshift of Sound Waves?
  1077. can string theory/gravitons/broken SUSY reproduce GR time dilation?
  1078. Black hole can regard as most efficency mass-energy convecter?
  1079. How to solve space-time variation in the ocean?
  1080. Video camera links in Special Relativity
  1081. Relativistic Collision
  1082. Formulation of Einstein-Hilbert Action
  1083. Very Old Question
  1084. properties of einstein tensor....
  1085. Trying to understand rotating black holes
  1086. Einstein's box in media and mass-energy equivalence
  1087. Einstein's box of phonons and energy-mass equivalence