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Graduate Is the higgs field required to have space-time warping?
- cdux
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Graduate Speed of light between two rockets moving at 0.51c in opposite directions
- kjamha
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Graduate Alcubierre metric and gravitational waves
- gildomar
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Graduate What's missing from the tensor explanation in that video?
- jmatt
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Graduate Do photons obey the 1/r^2 gravity law?
- swle
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Graduate Notions of simultaneity in strongly curved spacetime
- PAllen
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Graduate Two spaceships in opposite direction at near c
- stu dent
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Graduate Does Hawking Radiation preclude EH formation?
- rjbeery
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Graduate Length Contraction vs. Distance Contraction
- arindamsinha
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Graduate Perceiving near c speeds from a great distance
- jam.muskopf
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Graduate Curvature of Spacetime related to mass and expansion
- Phys00
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Graduate Why the square-root of the metric
- stevendaryl
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Graduate The relationship between Stress-Energy tensor and Mass
- ShayanJ
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Graduate Does the spacetime interval appear in all physics formulae?
- Master J
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Graduate Writing the 4-force in matrix form for Lorentz boost
- 71GA
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Graduate Is Your Thought Experiment on General Relativity Foundations Valid?
- cosmic dust
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Graduate What is the current physics consensus on block time and the block universe?
- I2004
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Graduate Flat vs. Conformally Flat Spacetime
- Airsteve0
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Graduate Why is the linearized vierbein a 2nd rank tensor in flat spacetime?
- DrDu
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Graduate Solving the Critical Radius for Relativity: Find krE!
- n1caboose
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Graduate Does observer's sense of gravity change?
- tanus5
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Graduate What's the difference between apparent horizon and event horizon?
- xuphys
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Undergrad What happens during acceleration in twin paradox?
- vraeleragon
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Graduate Understanding Tensor Bases: Solving Equations in General Relativity
- illuminatus33
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Graduate How does time expansion/contraction work for opposite moving observers?
- randyu
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Graduate Derivation of lorentz transformation?
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Graduate How Does Time Dilation Affect Perception in Space Travel?
- mcafej
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Graduate Are Finkelstein/Kruskal Black Hole Solutions Compatible with Einstein's GR?
- harrylin
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Graduate What Are the Implications of Nikodem Poplawski's ECSK Gravity Theory?
- pervect
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Graduate Mathematical rigor of GR spacetime manifold assumptions
- TrickyDicky
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Graduate Unfortunate Doppler Discussion in Nice Paper
- PAllen
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Graduate Why is there no factor of 4 in the variation of Riemann squared action?
- sergenyalcin
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Graduate Is relative mass making gravitational field?
- marshallaw
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Graduate Lorentz transformation of y cpmponent for 4-momentum
- 71GA
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Undergrad Mass causes space time curvature
- shounakbhatta
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Graduate Space-time can mean without mater or energy ?
- big_bounce
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Graduate Different speed of light at different milky way radius?
- Juanma
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Graduate Solve relativistic velocity in terms of momentum (vector equation)
- winstonyin
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Graduate FRW Model Q: Why Does Positive (ρ+3p) Prove Big Bang?
- Auburnman
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Graduate Motivation behind vacuum Einstein equation
- McLaren Rulez
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Graduate Does Accelerated Electron Emit Gravitational Radiation?
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Graduate The light clock and the simple clock
- vinven7
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Graduate Metric tensor and curvature for closed spatial dimensions
- thehangedman
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Graduate Mass of a Boxful of Extremely Intense Radiation
- Islam Hassan
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Graduate Rotation and Revolution in relativity
- arindamsinha
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Graduate Does rotation of a 3d volume about a 2d plane create gravity?
- Sunfire
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Graduate Evaluating time for falling body to reach event horizon
- ck99
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Graduate What Are the Paradoxes of the Light Clock Problem in Special Relativity?
- altergnostic
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Graduate Metric Tensor Division: Is It Proper?
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Graduate What is meant by an exact solution to Einstein's field equations?
- shounakbhatta
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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?
- Ipm
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Graduate Two seemingly unrelated arguments against superposition in GR
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Graduate Are reference frames and coordinate systems the same thing?
- Dale
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Graduate Do supermassive black holes have the same singularity size as stellar black holes?
- jaydnul
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Graduate Oppenheimer-Snyder model of star collapse
- TrickyDicky
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Undergrad Why does the light clock show time dilation rather than clock error?
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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
- Bjarne
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Graduate Pertinent question regarding time traveling
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Graduate Some questions about general relativity
- faen
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Graduate What is an alternate way of representing special relativity?
- Davidthefat
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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
- Airsteve0
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Graduate Black hole event horizon radius = Schwarzschild radius?
- arindamsinha
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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
- UglyNakedGuy
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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
- nicholasmath
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Graduate Black holes and General Relativity
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Graduate How Do Horizons Influence the Entropy and Temperature of Spacetime?
- pervect
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Graduate How does one measure the absolute velocity of an object?
- Sydney Self
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Graduate Why does the shadow move faster than light when the insect travels at 0.9c?
- Mr-T
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Undergrad Is the speed of light affected by relative motion?
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Graduate Shape of Kerr event horizon in terms of reduced circumference
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Graduate Showing that Lorentz transformations are the only ones possible
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Graduate Why are geodesics parabolae on earth's surface?
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Graduate Why does a laser beam appear bent in a rotating reference frame?
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Graduate Black Hole Angular Velocity: Is Expansion Feasible?
- serp777
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Graduate Geodesics in a constant gravitational field
- tom.stoer
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Graduate If time is relative, what does the universe's age of 13.75 billion years mean?
- ubcstudent
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Graduate Why does the buoyant force decrease in Supplee's submarine paradox?
- bcrowell
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Graduate What is the measure of space-time curvature and how is it calculated?
- Gingermolloy
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Graduate How to understand why massless particles must travel at c?
- SecretSnow
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High School Does relativistic mass increase with velocity?
- UglyNakedGuy
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Graduate If light appears frozen due to time dilation, how do its fields fluctuate?
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Graduate About accretion disk of a binary system
- jtceleron
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Graduate A function for a line in a square (or a triangle or a etc)
- geordief
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Graduate What events occur inside a black hole?
- F1225
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Graduate Reducing symmetric tensor to 2 components in transverse-traceless gauge
- Neitrino
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Graduate Velocity Addition in Special Relativity
- rajark
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Graduate Can Black Holes Truly 'Grow' in the Lifetime of the Universe?
- arindamsinha
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Graduate Inventing Lagrangians (D'Inverno)
- TerryW
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Graduate What Would Audible Gravity Waves Sound Like?
- snorkack
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Graduate (wald) method for calculating curvature
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Graduate Can you move fast enough towards light so that it has a period of 0?
- stu dent
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