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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 How can a spaceship reach a distant galaxy faster than light does in the galaxy's frame?

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Graduate Understanding Past and Future Light Cones

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Graduate What are Gaussian coordinates and where can I learn about them?

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Graduate How Does a Photon Experience Space and Time?

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Graduate Does a photon have rest mass, and does it have 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 Why does time change if speed changes in the twin paradox?

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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 How can both spaceships see the other's clock running slower?

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Graduate Relative difference in laws of electrodynamics

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Graduate How does spacetime curvature explain multiple orbits around the sun?

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Undergrad Was Ruđer Bošković the first one?

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Graduate Why didn't Einstein use Ωg_αβ - L_αβ = G_αβ instead of 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 Why does relativistic mass increase as velocity approaches c?

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Graduate Light Cone Distributions: Review by Eric Poisson, Ian Vega and Adam Pound

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Graduate Mass and energy when traveling at near the speed of light

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Graduate Can binding energies sum to the rest energy of a mass?

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Graduate Doppler effect and invariability of C

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Graduate Have we observed decreasing velocity or spiraling in binary pulsars?

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Graduate Passage from the book relativity i am not able to understand

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Undergrad Calculating the Distance Traveled by Light: Myth or Reality?

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Undergrad Time Dilation with objects at low speeds

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Graduate Schwarzschild metric and spherical symmetry

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Undergrad Why do light flashes from both ends of a train reach the passenger at the same time?

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Graduate Can light act like an object in motion and stand still in an ideal environment?

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Graduate Book for Special Relativity that uses Tensors

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Graduate Outgoing Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates

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Undergrad Do relativistic effects limit disk rotation speed?

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Graduate Mass Increase When Light Speed Increases: Einstein's Theory

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Graduate Form of Lorentz Transformation Using West-Coast Metric

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Graduate Can special relativity be violated by an electron in a television tube?

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Graduate Is energy conservation necessary?

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Graduate Unruh effect and lessons regarding reality

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Graduate Hypothetical implication of Lorentz contraction

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Graduate Why Does Frame Choice Matter in Velocity Addition Problems?

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Graduate Field transformation in Griffiths' parallel plate capacitor example

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Undergrad What happens if C is faster than the speed of light?

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Graduate Is the Travel Time to Reach the Speed of Light Really Only 2 Years?

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Graduate Is cosmic muon lifetime extension a valid test of relativity?

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Graduate Are the directions of electric fields lines affected by Gravity?

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Graduate Gravitational Wave Local Energy: Not Gauge Invariant?

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Graduate Black Holes: Event Horizon, Singularity & Information Loss

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Graduate Sign error in FLRW null geodesic equation from Narlikar paper

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Graduate Why do planets orbit faster near massive bodies in general relativity?

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Graduate Range of summation indices in the Christoffel symbol

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Graduate Monkey and Hunter Problem - General Relativity?

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Graduate Proper Acceleration and Christoffel Symbols

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Graduate Rohrlich's derivation of E=mc2 wrong?

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Undergrad What is Lorentz transformation?

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Graduate Faster than light relative speeds (I know it's impossible)

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Graduate Locally inertial coordinates on geodesics

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Graduate Is Papapetrou line element the same as cylindrical coordinates?

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Graduate Justification of length contraction in light-clock presentation

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Graduate SR and speed of light in matter

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Graduate Why does gravitational mass-current not form a 4-vector like electromagnetic current?

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Undergrad Who Ages Faster in the Twin Paradox?

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Graduate Initial Acceleration of Photons

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Graduate Will we measure the velocity c?

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Graduate What are the consequences of violating (or almost) speed c

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Graduate How Can a Magnetic Field Generate an Electric Field Without Experiencing Time?

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Undergrad Does Time Dilation Occur When Orbiting Around a Planet?

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Graduate Problem with Understanding Dimensions

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Graduate Spin Density and Non-symmetric Stress-Energy Tensor

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Graduate Is length contraction direction independent?

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Graduate Top Free Mathematica Packages for Calculating GR Tensors and Derivatives

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Undergrad Does Relativistic Speed Increase Gravity Pull?

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Graduate Travelling close to the speed of light

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Graduate Why does mutual time dilation seem to give t_a = γ²t_a?

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