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Graduate Lorentz Transform Derivation questions
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Graduate A basic question about the use of a metric tensor in general relativity
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Graduate What are the Christoffel symbols for the Schwarzschild metric?
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Graduate How can we define the induced metric on a brane?
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Graduate What's wrong with these pictures?
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Undergrad Time & Mass: Newbie Questions from a Spaceship Observer
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Graduate Does Inflation Affect the Perception of Time in Expanding Space?
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Graduate Hawking Radiation and the Hologram Theory
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Graduate Raychaudhuri equation for shear
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Graduate The velocity of light in the medium
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Graduate What Are the Differences Between Poincare and Reparametrization Transformations?
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Graduate If an object moves towards you at light speed, what would you see?
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Graduate What Are Half-Integer-Spin Geons and Their Significance in Nature?
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Graduate Do Massless Particles Cause Gravitation?
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Undergrad Is the concept of dynamic space and the effects of gravity on light measurable?
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Graduate Muons experiment, strange logic
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Graduate Confirming Time Dilation Without Subatomic Particles: Steven's Question
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Undergrad Time Travel Paradox: Can It Happen?
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Graduate Does the idea of inflation in the universe contradict relativity?
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Graduate Can a Moving Interferometer Cause Photons to Miss Their Target in Space?
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Graduate Time-like or Space-like Events: Analyzing the Train Diagram
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Graduate Geodesic and MiSaTaQuWa equation of motion
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Graduate Calculating proper time using schwartzchild metric
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Graduate Differentiation of a vektorfield
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Graduate Can changing the metric in GR result in different spacetimes?
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Graduate Help Covariant Derivative of Ricci Tensor the hard way.
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Graduate Trouble understanding MTW particulary noncoordinate basis
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Is Video Correct? What's Your Opinion?
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Graduate Calculating how light falls under gravity
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Graduate Covariant and noncovariant Lorentz invariants
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Graduate Non-geometric approach to gravity impossible?
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Graduate Relativistic kinetic energy and force.
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Graduate FRW universe, expanding space or spacetime?
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Graduate Acceleration of a static test-particle
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Graduate Black Hole Singularity Blue Shift
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Graduate Relative energy of a black hole.
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Graduate The Role of Gravitation in Particle Physics: Beyond the Everyday Interactions
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Graduate Entering supermassive black holes
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Graduate Cosmological Redshift: Equation & Universe History
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Graduate Momentums and Curve Our Space is clearly a little weirder than expected
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Graduate Confused by proof of Lorentz properties from invariance of interval
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Graduate Proper definition of world lines in Galilean and Minkowskian spacetime
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Graduate What do I do once the Field Equations have been assembled
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Graduate Does a Yank of 100 Newton Meters Affect a 5 Kg Rod?
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Graduate Relativity and The Stopped Clock Paradox
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Undergrad Question on movement speeds relative to an observer.
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Graduate Please Explain to me this thought experiment
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Graduate Galilean principle of relativity
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Graduate Precise instrument (w,h,l) after length contraction still working?
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Graduate Can flat spacetime model Black Holes?
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Undergrad GeekGeodetic Effect Explained: Proving Relativity
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Graduate Generators for Lorentz transformations
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Graduate Potential Energy of Length Contraction
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Graduate What is the true nature of motion?
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Graduate Coordinate and proper time animation
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Graduate Windmills and the Speed of Light
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Graduate Time dilation from length contraction
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Graduate Confusion about synchronization
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Graduate Calculating Relativistic Velocity from Work and Mass
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Graduate What are your best arguments for time dilation, so duration is different ?
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Graduate Why I doubt the generality of Gauss' law: A Gaussian sphere 1 light year across
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Graduate Classification of events and curves in Minkowskian spacetime
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Graduate Motion of light in a gravitational field
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Graduate Are Christoffel symbols measurable?
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Graduate What Is the Estimated Entropy of the Final Crunch in a Closed Universe?
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Graduate Time as Parameter in QM vs Coordinate in QFT
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Graduate Infinite Slab of Mass: Black Hole Effects
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Undergrad Coordinate time and proper time.
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Graduate Can the Speed of Light be derived?
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Undergrad Variation in speed of light - how does it accelerate after being slowed down?
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Graduate Does Spacetime Always Remember Events?
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Graduate How does GR handle metric transition for a spherical mass shell?
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Graduate Is there a relativistic version of the work-energy theorem?
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Undergrad When is it ok to use non-relativistic equations?
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Graduate Length contraction near the speed of light
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Graduate Language in which Einstein intuitively discovered GR
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Graduate What's Wrong With Black Hole Thermodynamics?
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Graduate What is general relativity in one irreducible simple sentence?
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Graduate Massive observers with light speed when crossing the event horizon
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Graduate Relative Black Holes: Can Particles See Universes of Them?
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Graduate One way speed of light and simultaneity
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Graduate Writing Tensor Equations in Matrix Form
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Graduate Lapse function and spacetime splicing
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Graduate Twin Paradox Explained: Long Outbound & Short Inbound Leg
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Undergrad Using Mathematica for 4 vectors and etc.
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Graduate When Does the Future Stop Being Mapped Out in Special Relativity?
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Graduate Is your information destroyed when you reach the singularity
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Graduate Time, simultaneity, black holes & entropy
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Graduate Time flow on other planets or galaxies
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Graduate Escaping a Black Hole's Event Horizon
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Why isnt a bh singularity a reference point?
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Graduate Explaining time dilation from length contraction easier
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Graduate BREAKING NEWS: Error Undoes Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results
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Undergrad Relativity of Simultaneity & C Invariance Doubts
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Graduate A simple resource about tensors
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Graduate Anomalous Precession of Mercury's Orbit: Facts & Theories
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Graduate Is there a direct relationship between time and space in special relativity?
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Graduate Can Quantum Mechanics Explain True Randomness?
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Graduate Multiple images in gravitaional lensing
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Graduate Status of relativistic 2-body problem
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