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Graduate Is GR Considered a Gauge Theory?
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Graduate Speed of Light: Relative Measurement for 2 Observers
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Excellent video on General and Special Relativity
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Graduate Does space have a physical role in the jerk of acceleration?
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Graduate A novel way of defining coordinates?
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Graduate Time Dilation & Space Contraction: I'm Confused
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Undergrad A phone call at the speed of light?
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Graduate Dust generated static space-time implications on fluid 4-velocity
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Undergrad Black Holes Uniting: How Do They Crash?
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Undergrad How does timedilation apply to things other than lightclocks?
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Graduate Does the spinning of a wheel affect its aging compared to its surroundings?
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Graduate Do you agree with my explanation of time dilation
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Graduate Questions about closed timelike curves
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Undergrad Question about relative motion: 3 Golden Retrievers in deep space
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Undergrad Explaining the Physics Behind Light Speed: F=ma
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Graduate Time dilation and length contraction
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High School Understanding Inertial reference frames
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Graduate Total linear momentum does not conserved as viewed from other frame?
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Graduate Maxwell's Eq, Magnetic Monopoles, GR & Gravimag. Monopole?
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Graduate Hypothetical thought experiment about time dilation
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Graduate Are Faster-Than-Light Effects Predicted by Special Relativity?
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Graduate Black Hole : Infalling Observer looking back
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Graduate Degrees of Freedom in Linearized Gravity (and beyond)
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Graduate Is Light Moving in a Slant Direction Possible?
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Graduate Understanding Observation Frames in GR Theory
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Graduate Still confusion in relativity of simultaneity and time dilation .
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Graduate Can Warp Drives Really Make Faster-Than-Light Travel Possible?
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Graduate Wormhole Problem: Limit of Acceleration?
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Graduate Gravitational Length Contraction
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Graduate Schwarzschild Metric & Satellite Orbits: A Question
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Graduate Meaning of Schwarzschild solution in isotropic/anisotropic coordinates
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Graduate Coordinate patches on curved manifolds
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Undergrad Are descriptions of relative velocity arbitrary?
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Graduate Relative velocity of light in special theory of realtivity?
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Graduate Writing the Einstein action in terms of tetrads
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Graduate Can someone interpret this Einstein quote?
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Graduate Stress-energy tensor definition
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Graduate Is the Mass of a Photon Affected by its Energy?
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Graduate Cause of Gravity Force: Explaining Monopolar Attraction
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Graduate Interpreting Stress-Energy Tensor Components for Klein-Gordon & EM Fields
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Graduate Why is Motion Through Space Limited in Relation to Motion Through Time?
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Graduate Schwarzschild conservation of angular momentum
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Graduate Minimal Coupling Needed for Covariant Energy Conservation?
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Graduate Calculating RiemannScalar in 2-D: Where to Start
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Graduate Are clocks used in general relativity?
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Graduate Understanding Light Speed: The Impact of an Observer Moving at 10% C
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Graduate Mass bending space makes me think there's another side to space
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Graduate Is Gravitational Time Dilation Affected by Gravitational Potential?
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High School What is the meaning of E=mc^2?
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Undergrad Examples for gravitational time dilation
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Undergrad Explaining the equation of gravitational time dilation
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Undergrad Gravitational Time Dilation: Equation & Calculation
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Graduate What is the equation for gravitational time dilation?
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Undergrad Gravitational Time Dilation: Equation & Calculation
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Graduate Length contraction occurs infront of AND behind you?
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Graduate How is acceleration equivalent to rest in a gravitational field
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Graduate Can we extract energy from a gravitational field ?
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Undergrad Special and general relativity
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Undergrad Derivation of lorentz transformation
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Graduate Relativity of simultaneity through lorentz transformation
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Graduate Maxwell's equations in curved space-time
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Graduate Explanation of m&m experiment through sr
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Graduate Speed of light vs universe expansion
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Graduate Is the speed of light infinite?
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Graduate Expanding/Collapsing Universe vs Bouncing Ball: Kinetic & Potential Energy?
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Graduate Total velocity of resting object on earth from universal frame of refe
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Graduate GR Relation Reduces to Newtonian: Limits Explained
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Graduate Does Bending Space/Time Have Credibility?
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Graduate Poincare Transformation: Understanding its Properties and Group Structure
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Undergrad Acceleration vs. uniform motion: There are three rockets in deep space
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Graduate Black Holes in String Theory - calculation help needed
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Graduate So you are driving a car at (almost) the speed of light
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Undergrad Is There a Connection Between Time and Size in Physics?
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Graduate Space-time curvature as gravity only for speeding particles?
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Graduate Doubts in general theory of relativity
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Graduate Acceleration has begun to drive me crazy .
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Graduate Is My Derivation of the Dominant Non-Linear Terms in MTW Exercise 19.3 Correct?
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Graduate Raising and lowering indices in Linearized theory
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Graduate Space Time Continuum: A Scientific Analysis
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Graduate Does matter break the light speed barrier after the event horizon?
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Graduate Does mass physically bend space or is time being bent?
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Graduate Does relativity permit tachyons given that they have negative gamma?
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Graduate Does Relativistic Mass Affect Scale Readings Inside a Moving Rocket?
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Graduate Why can't u go faster than the speed of light when speed doesn't exist
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Graduate Does Density Influence the Curvature of Spacetime?
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Graduate Speed of light in acclerated frame
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Graduate What is the most counter-intuitive concept in the relativity theories?
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Graduate Conservation of energy in general relativity & non-existence of PMMs
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Undergrad Time, Space & Light: Einstein's Theory Explained
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High School Acceleration and uniform motion are not making any sense
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Graduate Mass of objects moving at the speed of light
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Graduate Carroll Problem #15 of chapter 3 - As trivial as it seems?
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Graduate Which Lagrangian is correct for SR?
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Graduate Ambiguity of time dilation/twin paradox
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Graduate Solving the "Paradox" in Galilean Relativity
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Graduate Black Hole Formation: Susskind's Scenario Explained
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Graduate Demonstrating Metric Kerr Expression
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Undergrad Struggling to understand why uniform motion is so different from non-u
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Undergrad Event Horizons and Star's mass relationship
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Graduate Time Dilation & Length Contraction, Further Thoughts
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