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Graduate Acceleration in SR makes it equivalent to GR?
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Graduate Lenght Contractions in Inertial Reference Frames
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Graduate Has relativity been proved wrong?
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Graduate Prove Maxwell Eqs. Covariant: Wave Eqn & 4th-Vector Pot.
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Graduate Coordinate Tetrads: Other than Cartesian?
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Graduate Can inertial reference frame have different sizes at least in theory?
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Graduate Time dilation in relativity of simultaneity related to twin paradox
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Graduate Gravity vs. infinitely rigid bar
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High School High Velocities Through Portals: Escape Velocity Achieved
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Undergrad Time of acceleration dissipation
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Undergrad Doubt in the calculation of the age of the universe?
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Graduate The first postulate of relativity
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Graduate Synchronized Clocks in Frames boosted by Acceleration
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Graduate When accelerating at high %c, can apparent velocites exceed c?
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Graduate Understanding General Covariance & Relativity Principle
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Graduate Mathematically precise formulation of Ehlers-Geren-Sachs theorem
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High School Wavelength Speed: 10nm vs 1mm - Does UV Travel Faster?
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Graduate Can Light Be the Perfect Reference Frame to Solve Problems of Reference Frames?
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Graduate Can Tachyons Enable Messages to the Past?
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Graduate Is a black hole's mass zero according to a distant observer?
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Graduate Deriving the Metric from the Energy-Momentum Tensor
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Graduate How can doppler effect occur when c is indepedent of motion?
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Undergrad How to explain Einstein's Special theory of Relativity.
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Graduate Why Is Thomas Precession Critical in General Relativity Calculations?
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Graduate Speed of light, and path of travel, in distorted time-space
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Undergrad Can a nuclear bomb detonated from orbit actually destroy the Earth?
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Graduate Time Dilation: Object slowing down vs Subject speeding up
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Graduate Is the higgs field required to have space-time warping?
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Graduate Understanding the speed of light between 2 ships racing away from each other
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Graduate Alcubierre metric and gravitational waves
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Graduate Understanding Tensors & General Relativity
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Graduate Do photons obey the 1/r^2 gravity law?
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Graduate Notions of simultaneity in strongly curved spacetime
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Graduate Two spaceships in opposite direction at near c
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Graduate Does Hawking Radiation preclude EH formation?
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Graduate Length Contraction vs. Distance Contraction
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Graduate Perceiving near c speeds from a great distance
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Graduate Curvature of Spacetime related to mass and expansion
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Graduate Why the square-root of the metric
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Graduate The relationship between Stress-Energy tensor and Mass
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Graduate The Invariance Principle: Understanding the Essence of Special Relativity
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Graduate Deriving a Minkowski Force Matrix: Exploring 4-force
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Graduate Is Your Thought Experiment on General Relativity Foundations Valid?
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Graduate What is the current physics consensus on block time and the block universe?
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Graduate Flat vs. Conformally Flat Spacetime
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Graduate Why is the linearized vierbein a 2nd rank tensor in flat spacetime?
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Graduate Solving the Critical Radius for Relativity: Find krE!
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Graduate Does observer's sense of gravity change?
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Graduate What's the difference between apparent horizon and event horizon?
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Undergrad What happens during acceleration in twin paradox?
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Graduate Understanding Tensor Bases: Solving Equations in General Relativity
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Graduate How does time expansion/contraction work for opposite moving observers?
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Graduate Derivation of lorentz transformation?
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Graduate How Does Time Dilation Affect Perception in Space Travel?
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Graduate Are Finkelstein/Kruskal Black Hole Solutions Compatible with Einstein's GR?
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Graduate What Are the Implications of Nikodem Poplawski's ECSK Gravity Theory?
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Graduate Some doubts concerning the mathematical bases of GR
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Graduate Unfortunate Doppler Discussion in Nice Paper
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Graduate Why is there no factor of 4 in the variation of Riemann squared action?
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Graduate Is relative mass making gravitational field?
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Graduate Lorentz transformation of y cpmponent for 4-momentum
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Undergrad Mass causes space time curvature
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Graduate Space-time can mean without mater or energy ?
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Graduate Different speed of light at different milky way radius?
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Graduate Solve relativistic velocity in terms of momentum (vector equation)
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Graduate FRW Model Q: Why Does Positive (ρ+3p) Prove Big Bang?
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Graduate Motivation behind vacuum Einstein equation
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Graduate Does Accelerated Electron Emit Gravitational Radiation?
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Graduate The light clock and the simple clock
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Graduate Closed Dimensions: Metric Tensor, Curvature & Time
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Graduate Mass of a Boxful of Extremely Intense Radiation
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Graduate Rotation and Revolution in relativity
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Graduate Does rotation of a 3d volume about a 2d plane create gravity?
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Graduate Evaluating time for falling body to reach event horizon
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Graduate What Are the Paradoxes of the Light Clock Problem in Special Relativity?
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Graduate Metric Tensor Division: Is It Proper?
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Graduate Exact Solutions to General Relativity & Einstein's Field Eqns.
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Graduate Does an Electron's Increased B Field Exist Outside a Black Hole's Event Horizon?
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Graduate Test of GR's increase of inertia near bodies?
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Graduate Does the universe act like an instanced computer model
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Graduate Time dilation effects of relative velocity vs gravitational force?
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Graduate Speed of time immediately after big bang relative to now?
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Graduate Two seemingly unrelated arguments against superposition in GR
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Graduate Frames vs Coordinates: Mapping Points in R4 to Events in Manifold
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Graduate Size of Black Holes: A Closer Look
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Graduate Oppenheimer-Snyder model of star collapse
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Undergrad Understanding Light Clock & Time Dilation
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Graduate How Do Rindler Coordinates Affect Time Dilation and Acceleration?
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Graduate Temperature , tensors, and the unruh effect
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Graduate Is the speed of light always 299 792 458 m / s
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Graduate Pertinent question regarding time traveling
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Graduate Some questions about general relativity
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Graduate What is an alternate way of representing special relativity?
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Graduate Implications of Time-reversal asymmetric quantum physics
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Graduate Why is a Blue Shift in Kruskal Szekeres not Physical
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Graduate Black hole event horizon radius = Schwarzschild radius?
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Graduate How observation of a distant galaxy changes when travelling towards it
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High School Equations for relative velocity
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Graduate What Does Einstein's Unification of Space and Time Mean?
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Graduate Expansion and acceleration of the Universe
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