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Graduate Events for frame changing clocks
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Graduate Speed of the light and time dilation
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Graduate Question about distance units in relativity
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Undergrad Want to learn about special relativity?
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Graduate Basis vectors and abstract index notation
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Graduate Can Exceeding the Speed of Light Really Mean Time Travel?
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Graduate Understanding Time Dilation in Special Relativity: Separation and Relative Time
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Graduate At rest in Einsteinian relativity
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Graduate Travelling to the future (paradox)
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Graduate Two-body problem in general relativity
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Undergrad Implications of the Mass-energy equivalence
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Graduate Is there a more beginner-friendly book to learn General Relativity?
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Graduate Relativity & Surroundings: Train within a Train Theory
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Graduate Gauge Transformation: Coulomb to Lorentz
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Graduate Generalization of Netwonian gravity - Jefimenko's theory of gravitation
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Graduate Is Principle of Relativity compatible with Magnetic force
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Graduate How inertial frame of reference differs from non-inertial frame?
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Undergrad Is true or is it another pseudoscience crap
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Graduate Calculating speed of spacetime
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Graduate General Relativity: Gravitational-Red Shift Confused with Doppler Effect?
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Graduate In virtue of what are energy and momentum additive?
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Graduate Ricci tensor for electromagnetic field
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Graduate The terms absolute and relative
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Graduate How to caculate the inverse metric tensor
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Graduate Limit to length of expanding spring?
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Graduate Conservation of Energy in Friedman Equation
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Graduate Does a 2 Light-Year Long Steel Bar Move Instantly When Pushed?
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Graduate Euler Lagrange equation as Einstein Field Equation
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Graduate What is the relationship between light rays and the equations of motion in GR?
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Graduate Possible 3rd Interpretation of the Michelson-Morley Experiment
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Graduate Travelling faster than the speed of light - SR
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Graduate Traveling Info: Images, Photons, Speed of Light
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Graduate Gravitionel redshift – How is it working?
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Graduate Special relativity and photon dimensionality
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Graduate Rigid body angular velocity limit
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Undergrad Is acceleration relative or absolute?
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Graduate Is Time Truly Absolute? Investigating Through Thermodynamics
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Graduate Is the Sum of Christoffel Symbols Equal to Their Negative in Tensor Calculus?
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Graduate Does SR actually forbid FTL travel?
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Undergrad Gravitational force at midpoint between 2 equal massive bodies
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Graduate Derivation of relativistic motion equations from action
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Graduate Does Friedmann equation allow for complex scale factor?
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Undergrad Can anyone explain this possible paradox?
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Undergrad Comparing Event Occurrence Across PORs
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Undergrad Confused about seeming recursivity of time dilation between two moving bodies
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Undergrad Learning Tensor Basics: Overcoming Difficulties
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Undergrad Does the energy of light depend on the observer's reference frame?
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Graduate Classic and relativistic 3-velocity
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Undergrad Has the One-Way Speed of Light Been Measured?
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Graduate MTW Gravitation Ex. 25.16: Comparing Equations & Expressing u_0 in \tilde{L}
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Graduate Free fall and blue shift question.
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Graduate Is there a frame of reference where events A and B are simultaneous?
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Graduate First historical experiment disproving Ritz emission theory?
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Graduate Nature of time, real or conceptual?
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Undergrad How Do You Convert GeV/c to m/s for Particle Velocities?
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Graduate Does the Black Hole Myth Hold True?
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Graduate Trip to Saturn: Constant Acceleration of 9.81 m/s^2 - Is It Possible?
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Graduate Reversal of proper time for a falling object
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Graduate Does Y See Events in X as Simultaneous?
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Undergrad Is there truly an object at rest in the universe?
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Graduate Distance/rate = t = sqrt[2d/a] = Same Proper Time ?
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Undergrad Noob time-space thought problem
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Graduate Derivation of the value of christoffel symbol
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Graduate How is traveling backward in time possible?
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Graduate How Does Relativistic Motion Affect Batman's Batship Shadow and Laser Image?
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Graduate Spacetime curvature observer and/or coordinate dependent?
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Graduate Is SR an approximation or a special case?
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Undergrad Newb Question Regarding Special Relativity
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Graduate Why do the electrons want the rest frame of the wire to appear neutral?
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Undergrad Question on Mass-energy equivalence
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Graduate How can we explain the behavior of interference patterns in different frames?
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Graduate Proper time in Schwarzschild Space
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Graduate Black hole why wouldn't this work
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Undergrad The speed of light and time travel
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Graduate Illusion of Time: Is the Future Already Written?
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Graduate Can we ever escape the pull of a black hole's singularity?
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Graduate Does light slow down (relativistic) near a black hole?
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Graduate Difference between Lorentz and Einstein
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Graduate Faraday tensor vs. Maxwell-Eistein tensor
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Graduate A one-form versus a dual basis vector
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Graduate Implications of orthogonal clocks in rockets
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Graduate Understanding Planck Length and Time in Relation to Spacetime and Acceleration
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High School I have a fundamental mis-understanding about gravity.
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Graduate Orbits in strongly curved spacetime
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Undergrad Was gravitational length contraction predicted by general theory of relativity ?
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Graduate Does an External Observer See a Different Light Ray Path in Special Relativity?
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Graduate Deriving Schwarzschild Metric: A Simple Method?
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Graduate Are laws of nature really the same in all reference frames?
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Graduate Why does the circle appear as an ellipse when moving at different velocities?
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Undergrad Fringe shifts - Michelson Morely Experiment
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Undergrad Time Distortion and Time Dilation
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Graduate Another confusing thought on relativity
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Graduate Relativistic Space Matter Flows over near light speed ships
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Graduate Observed speed of light [actually about relativistic velocity addition]
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Graduate What exactly does 'many-fingered time' mean?
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Graduate Synchronized clocks with respect to rest frame
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Graduate Extra energy of photon in doppler effect
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Undergrad Why is speed of light constent at a given place
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Graduate Relativity, a theory of information?
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Graduate What are the limitations of the Einstein field equation?
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