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Graduate Coordinates in GR: An Introduction & Question
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Graduate Question about gravity waves energy and momentum
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Undergrad Length contraction or Lorentz Contraction
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Graduate Handshake on a Fast Train: Understanding Relativity
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Graduate Free Falling Objects in GR: Initial Speed Matters
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Graduate Does gravity as a fictitious force do work? (GR's free-falling frame POV)?
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Graduate Equivalence principle so important?
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Graduate What Aspect of GR Forbids Superluminal Motion?
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Graduate Length contraction of falling things
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Graduate Einstein's Theory of Time: Debunked by Speed and Light | Real-Life Example
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Graduate Clock-experimental proof of special relativity
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Undergrad Is speed of light relative to eather flow?
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Graduate Gravitational vs. electromagnetic waves
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High School Time Travel Paradox Involving Couples
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Graduate Relativity of length contraction
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High School What Does the 'E' in E=mc² Really Represent: Total Energy or Mass Energy?
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Graduate Covariant Derivative and metric tensor
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Graduate Tensorial Calculation and antisymmetric tensors
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Undergrad Gravitational field strength equals zero?
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Graduate Gravitational Radiation in the Weak-Field Limit
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Graduate Maxwells Equations being non-invariant with Galilean transformations
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High School Does Time Move Differently on the Space Shuttle?
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Graduate Seeing into the past through a mirror going fater than the speed of light.
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Graduate Is Our Current Existence Already Predestined by Time Travel?
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Graduate Coordinate transformations in GR, worked examples?
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Graduate The Proper Time in Lorentz Space: Is it Infinite for the Resting Twin?
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Graduate CERN team claims measurement of neutrino speed >c
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Graduate Does Relativity Cause Time Differences Between Two Synchronized Clocks in Space?
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Graduate Integrating the metric in 3-D Spherical coordinates
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Graduate Contravariant and covariant vectors transformations
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Graduate Space time Curvature around the Earth
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Graduate Bell Spaceship Paradox: A and B's Viewpoint
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Graduate Is 'charged black hole' an oxymoron?
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Graduate How will a light beam appear to another light beam.?
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Graduate Some intuitional questions about GR
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Graduate Hilbert action according to robert wald
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Graduate Calculating Proper Time of "A" in Schwarzschild Geometry
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Graduate My understanding of relativity - is this correct?
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Graduate Visualisation of Brian Greene's concept.
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Graduate Moving charge in gravitational field.
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Graduate How can a machine be created to produce energy in GR?
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Graduate Velocity in Inertial Frames: Lorentz Dilation and Contraction
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Graduate How does special relativity account for the time on a single moving clock?
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Graduate Expanding Spacetime - Inside an Atom?
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Graduate Torsion -> covariant deriv of det(g) non-zero?
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Graduate Galilean transform and the maxwell equations
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Graduate Geodesics in a rotating coordinate system
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Graduate No redshift in a freely falling frame
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Graduate Tiny rocket in Galileo’s ship to detect motion
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Graduate How GR Resolves the Conservation of Momentum and Energy
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Graduate Thinking obout The Principle of Special Relativity
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Graduate Energy required to accelerate, and frames of reference
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Graduate Derivation of the Equation for Relativistic Mass
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Graduate Rotating Object Transformation: Length/Circumference Change?
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Graduate Difficulty understanding invariant 'c' implications
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Undergrad Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland - a clarification
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Graduate What is the relationship between direction of motion and time?
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Graduate Can Intense Light Waves Bend Space-Time to Propel a Vessel Through Space?
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Speed Up Time: Tips & Techniques
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Graduate Should I think of gravity/ time dilation as directional?
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Graduate Transformation of Doppler shift
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Graduate Several Questions Concerning Mass-Energy
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Graduate Alcubierre metric and General Relativity
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Graduate Proper Time Interval: Explaining Δs Relationship
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Graduate Explain this - the Muon experiment
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Graduate How Much of the Universe's Gravity is Due to the Strong Force Versus Rest Mass?
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Graduate FTL, causality, QE - some questions
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Graduate How do relativity and magnetism affect each other?
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Graduate Do DIFFERENT observers see a DIFFERENT force on accelerating body?
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Graduate Can an object orbit a black hole before disappearing?
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Graduate How does Lanchester's transporter work in a curved manifold?
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Graduate Ultra-Relativistic sound speed problem
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Einstein's 1906 Paper: English Translation Requested
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Graduate Transformation for accelerating observers
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Graduate Special Relativity for the visual thinker - testing my understanding
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Graduate Point of Reference and Speed of Light: A Thought Experiment
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Graduate What is the reason behind proper mass being invariant?
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Graduate Are we travelling slower through time due to the Earths orbit?
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Graduate Measuring the speed of light at different velocities
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Graduate Will The Theory of Relativity allow me to travel Backwards in Time?
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Graduate Why the phenomenon of relativity is not progressive in nature.
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Graduate Time dilation and the perception of light
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Graduate How does special relativity follow from classical electrodynamics
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Graduate The Twin Paradox and the Equivalence Principle
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Graduate Wald Theorem 2.2.1 Problem on p.15
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Graduate Does GR really post-dict the big bang?
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Graduate Hypothetical question about time dialation
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Graduate Need to calculate Christoffel connection from a given metrics
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Undergrad Do waves/particles of light experience time? Awesome videos
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Graduate Details of Stress-Energy-Momentum Tensor
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Undergrad Light Clock Query: Explaining why Light Does Not Escape
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Graduate GR experiment of light observance
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Graduate Explain Duality Theory: Relativity & Davisson-Germer Exp.
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Graduate Proving Bounds of γ'' & β'' in [T''] Matrix
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Graduate Transformation Vs. Physical Law
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Graduate Speed of light in relative frames and acceleration
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Undergrad Does Gravity Influence the Speed of Light in Space?
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Graduate Theorem mathematic for relativity
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Graduate How to get time dilation & length contraction from Lorentz transform?
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Graduate A question of Einstein field equation
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