Special and General Relativity Forum

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Undergrad Time Dilation for Photons: Explained

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Undergrad Cosmic Test Reveals Odd Findings for Einstein's Relativity

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Undergrad Twin Paradox with accelerated Motion

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High School How Did Einstein's E=mc² Transform Our Understanding of Inertia and Gravity?

  • TrillAeon
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Undergrad Twin paradox for (accelerated) dummies?

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Undergrad Calculating Spacetime Around Multiple Objects

  • Sciencemaster
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High School Muon Tomography Evidence for Special Relativity?

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Graduate Why is Tau-AB^2 not t^2 + x^2?

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Undergrad Anti-symmetric part of an equation

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Undergrad What Is the Proper Time in Curved Space?

  • Kashmir
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Undergrad Michelson–Morley experiment and the velocity of the ether wind

  • Ahmed1029
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High School Time Shift Reference Point: Earth or Other?

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Undergrad Create movement from leveraging the propagation of magmatism

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Undergrad Lorentz Contraction & Twin Paradox

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Undergrad Einstein's Derivation of Elapsed Time for Remote Comoving Object

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High School Where am I wrong in this travelling faster than light Idea I've had?

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Undergrad Faster-than-Light Causality-Flip: Thought Experiment Reference?

  • Mikeal
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High School Can there be causality when there is spacelike separation?

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Undergrad The Christoffel symbols at the origin -- Why zero?

  • GR191511
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Undergrad What is Spacelike vs. Timelike Coordinate?

  • GR191511
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Undergrad The invariance of the speed of light is not only a hypothesis?

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Undergrad Twin Paradox with radioactive twins

  • Kairos
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High School GTR Vacuum vs Quantum Theory Vacuum: Speed of Light

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High School Speed of Light in Free Space - Einstein's Second Principle

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High School Mass & Weight Impact on Spiraling Into a Black Hole

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Undergrad Relativistic length contraction

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Undergrad Instantaneous coordinates of an event in space (special relativity)

  • Ahmed1029
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Undergrad Geodesic in Weak Field Limit: Introducing Einstein's Relativity

  • GR191511
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Undergrad Resolving the Twin Paradox: Non-Straight Paths and Proper Time in Space-Time

  • Ahmed1029
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Undergrad Understanding Three Force: Definition and Application

  • Kashmir
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Undergrad Bending of Light Along the Sun: Explaining Half w/ Equivalence Principle

  • HansH
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Undergrad What's the definition of angle in a curved space embedded in a higher Eucledian space?

  • Ahmed1029
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Undergrad Newton's Gravity & Lorentz Contraction: Is Modification Needed?

  • Kashmir
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Undergrad An issue with length contraction

  • student34
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Undergrad Solving for Extrema of Proper Time Integral

  • Kashmir
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Undergrad Black hole horizon for different observers

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Undergrad Can Curves Live Out of Embedding Diagrams?

  • LCSphysicist
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High School Grandfather Paradox & Self Consistency Principle: Are They Different?

  • BadgerBadger92
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Undergrad Coordinate and time transformations

  • Ahmed1029
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Undergrad Theory Without Spacelike Separations: Can It Exist?

  • Gerenuk
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High School Time Dilation & Bosons: Decay Rate Changes?

  • Andrew Wright
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Undergrad Does light take longer to go a set distance on a train?

  • shawn9521
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Undergrad Force due to acceleration and time flowing differently

  • HansH
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Graduate Is it possible for variable speed of light in a vacuum?

  • kissfire
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Undergrad Some thoughts about Bell's string paradox alternatives

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Undergrad Understand 4-Vectors & Spacetime: Hartle Gravity Chapter 5

  • Kashmir
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Undergrad Beginner's Guide to GR: Questions & Answers

  • Chenkel
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Undergrad Connection & Affine Geodesics: Q&A

  • GR191511
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Undergrad Time difference caused by length contraction

  • externo
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Undergrad Geometries from Line Element $$dl^2=d\theta^2 + \sin^2\theta\, d\varphi^2$$

  • Demystifier
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Undergrad Calculation of gravitational redshift in an accelerating elevator

  • externo
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Undergrad Tipler 1976: Clarifying Symbol Meaning

  • hawkdron496
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Undergrad Can we determine the one way speed of light by combined measurements?

  • HansH
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Undergrad Measuring Time & Spatial Distances: Timelike vs Spacelike

  • Kashmir
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High School Problem about postulate of the invariance of the speed of light

  • externo
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Undergrad What Would it Look Like to Fall into a Black Hole?

  • Hornbein
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Graduate Potential Energy of Relativistic Particles in Coulomb Field

  • reterty
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Undergrad Coordinate System Transformation: Lowering/Raising Indices Explained

  • GR191511
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Undergrad When and how can I apply Born rigidity condition?

  • member 728827
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Undergrad What is the definition of proper time interval according to Wikipedia?

  • Kashmir
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Undergrad Trying to understand space-time diagrams

  • Kashmir
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Undergrad Energy of Light in Accelerating Universe: Comparing Cases

  • Pony
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Undergrad Reconciling Lorentz Four-Force Density w/ Spacelike Four-Current (##c = 1##)

  • SiennaTheGr8
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High School Historic question regarding SR and c*t

  • Trysse
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High School Experimental evidence for effective mass increasing with speed

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Undergrad What, exactly, are invariants?

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High School Light Taking U-Turn: Transformation of Star to Black Hole

  • shivakumar
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Undergrad Difference Between Lorentz Transformation & Special Relativity

  • BadgerBadger92
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Undergrad Hartle, Gravity pg 34: Question about Time in Non-Inertial Frames

  • Kashmir
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High School Sign of Expansion Scalar in Expanding FLRW Universe

  • Onyx
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High School Gravitational acceleration and sub-atomic electric charge

  • rwh2100
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Undergrad Why are acceleration, jerk, etc not relative, just like velocity?

  • Ahmed1029
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High School Einstein's Twin Paradox: Confusing Solution?

  • phymath7
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Undergrad Carroll GR: Geodesic Eq from Var Principles

  • hawkdron496
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Undergrad Using position of free particle to measure time

  • Kashmir
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Undergrad Equations of Motion for Massless Particle in Potential

  • tomdodd4598
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Undergrad Def Proper Time GR: Half or Integral Along Path?

  • hawkdron496
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Graduate Can a Null Surface Satisfy the Requirements for a Cauchy Surface?

  • PeterDonis
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Graduate What is the formal definition of spacetime in physics?

  • Enrico
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Undergrad Coord Transform in de Sitter Space: Phys Significance &Linearity?

  • Sciencemaster
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Undergrad Richard Feynman: Deriving Lorentz Mass Transformation

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Undergrad Appearance of Warp Bubble Internal Volume to Distant Observer

  • Onyx
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Undergrad Carroll GR: Tangent Space & Partial Derivatives

  • chartery
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Graduate What does G mean in general relativity?

  • Feynstein100
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Graduate Computing Thomas Precession: Part 2 | Francesco

  • Coelum
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Graduate Computing the Thomas Precession: Help from PFers Needed!

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High School Does the CMB give us absolute space and time in practice?

  • S Holtom
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High School (ELI5) why can’t massless particles travel infinitely fast?

  • balls
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Undergrad Michelson-Morley: Errors in Calculations?

  • vchal
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Undergrad Wormholes & Warp Drives: Can Circular Polarizers Create Them?

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Undergrad Calculate Contraction 2nd & 4th Indices Riemann Tensor

  • GR191511
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High School Does Force Travel Faster Than Light?

  • MrSimp
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High School General Relativity & Grav. Time Dilation Qn

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Undergrad Matter Gaining Energy from Expanding Spacetime?

  • Suekdccia
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Undergrad Difference Between Locally Flat & Locally Inertial?

  • GR191511
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Undergrad Does Special and General Relativity Affect Aging of Apollo Astronauts?

  • PeterDonis
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High School Gravitational Potential Energy & Mass Change: Andrew's Question

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Undergrad Calculate Gaussian Curvature from 4D Metric Tensor

  • Sciencemaster
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High School High Frequency Photons: More Mass, More Bend?

  • mdeng
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Undergrad Cosmic Inflation Explained: Constant Velocity of Electromagnetic Radiation

  • JonathanMFreedman
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