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Undergrad Is the speed of light constant in a medium?
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Graduate A few questions about gravity, space, and reality in general
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Graduate Question about gravitational redshift
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Graduate Unified Theory of Dark Matter, Dark Energy from altered EFE
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Graduate Is it possible for a photon lifetime to be complex ?
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Graduate On modified theories of gravity
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Graduate Relativistic Doppler and preferred frame
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Graduate Photon sphere vs horizon as a null suface
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Graduate Effect of cosmological expansion on bound systems in realistic cosmologies
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Graduate Understanding Gravity: Force or Curvature of Space?
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Graduate Particle on a curved trajectory
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Graduate Why does low frequency light appear to travel faster than high frequency light?
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Graduate Question about theorem 2.2.1 in Wald's General Relativity
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Graduate How Does Gravity from Nearby Stars Affect Black Hole Movement?
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Graduate Why does Bailey experiment not show gravitational time dilation?
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Graduate How Do Black Holes Emit Photons?
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Graduate Does Relativity Allow for Faster-than-Light Travel?
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Graduate What is the Doppler effect in different frames of observation?
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Graduate Lorentz invariance of four-volume element [itex] d^4x [/itex]
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Graduate Requesting Clear Description of Contravariant vs Covariant vectors
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Graduate What is zero time between events?
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Graduate Points of reference for time dilation
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Graduate Calculating Velocity of Moving Objects Relative to Each Other
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Graduate Speed of the light and dilation of time
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Undergrad The Motion of Photons: Where Does the Energy Go?
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Graduate Problem with Schwarzschild metric derivation
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Graduate The God Effect and the Black Hole
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Graduate Is superluminal communication impossible according to STR?
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Undergrad How does gravity in space work?
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Undergrad Whenever we increase the velocity of a particle, the mass of he particle also
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Graduate Does BH Event Horizon Reveal Information on Mass, Angular Momentum, and Charge?
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Graduate Observers/observations according to SR
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Graduate Confused about Lorentz Transformations
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Graduate Time dilation in the period of a pendulum
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High School Concepts of time on Earth, Space and on other Planets
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Graduate Gravitational lensing derivation using equivalence principle
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Graduate Relative velocity between two accelerating observers
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Graduate Bohr radius and length contraction
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Graduate Aid to visualizing warped Spacetime?
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Graduate Postulate: EVERY field has a magnetic equivalent.
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Graduate Bianchi Identity-where did I go wrong?
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Graduate Why doesn't hawking radiation prevent a space-like singularity
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Graduate Time reversal in General Relativity, and black holes
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Graduate Need help on an exercise from Gravitation(MTW)
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Graduate Need help MTW's Gravitation exercise 16.1
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Graduate Slow-rotation weak-field limit of Kerr
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Undergrad A typo or I don't understand it?
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Graduate Are Lorentz Transformations Compatible with Lorentz Ether Theory?
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Graduate Faster than the speed of light
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Graduate Relativistic mass, time dilation, length contraction, and traveling near c
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Graduate Can SR be derived from causality alone?
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Graduate Does Time Exist? Science Explains 4 Dimensions & Timelines
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Graduate Understanding Basis Vectors and One-Forms: A Simplified Explanation
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Graduate Universe expansions effect on gravity and Einsteins theory of special relativity
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Graduate Define Black Holes w/o Asymptotic Flatness?
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Graduate Length contraction of distant objects/space, etc
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Graduate Visualizing General Relativity with Fluid Analogy
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Graduate SR question about time dilation/space contraction
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Graduate Understanding Past and Future Light Cones
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Graduate Gaussian Coordinates Explained: Resources & Definition
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Graduate How Does a Photon Experience Space and Time?
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Graduate Photon Rest Mass: How We Know & Mass While Moving
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Graduate Black Hole Time Dilation: Light-ray Interpretation
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Graduate Why is gravity the only force the causes time dilation?
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Graduate Anti-de Sitter spacetime metric and its geodesics
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High School Twin Paradox: Time & Speed Explained
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Graduate Can Information Be Preserved on Closed Timelike Curves?
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Graduate Correct phrasing / use of vocabulary for SR
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Graduate Does Bell's Paradox Suggest String Shouldn't Break Due to Length Contraction?
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Graduate How Do Light Clocks Illustrate Time Dilation and Length Contraction?
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Graduate Why does length contraction only occur parallel to the direction of motion?
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Undergrad Speed of light constant in NON-vacuum?
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Graduate I have been reading a book on hyperspace and again the author has gone
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Graduate Why does Einstein's 1905 SR paper contain Zero citations?
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Graduate Confused about some aspects of GR
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Graduate Relative difference in laws of electrodynamics
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Graduate Physics & Cosmology: Questions about Gravity & Orbital Motion
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Undergrad Was Ruđer Bošković the first one?
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Graduate Question about Einstein inserting the cosmological constant
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Graduate What's being curved, when mass bends the spacetime continuum?
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Graduate Shrinking event horizon to point singularity
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Graduate Does potential energy change mass
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Graduate Questions about the accelerating universe
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Undergrad Thought experiment about time dilation
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Graduate I have a spacecraft that can trave to Alpha Centauri in 1 week
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Graduate Local flat space and the Riemann tensor
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Undergrad What happens to the shape of an accelerating mass
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Graduate Eternal black hole Hawking process
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Graduate Repeat of Hafele-Keating Experiment?
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Graduate Existence of gravitational energy
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Graduate Tensors and vector derivatives
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Undergrad Einsteins Theory on Relativity
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Undergrad Hyperbolic Geometry in special relativity
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Graduate What is the FTL drive model that is not the Alcubierre?
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Graduate Intuition for General/Special Relativity theorems without experiments
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Graduate Velocities as seen by different observers.
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Undergrad Understanding Light Wave Propagation
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Graduate Does time dilation effect rate of isotope decay?
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Graduate Mass Increase in SR: Clarification of Popular Belief
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Graduate Light Cone Distributions: Review by Eric Poisson, Ian Vega and Adam Pound
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