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Undergrad Trying to understand space-time diagrams
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Undergrad Energy of Light in Accelerating Universe: Comparing Cases
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Undergrad Reconciling Lorentz Four-Force Density w/ Spacelike Four-Current (##c = 1##)
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High School Historic question regarding SR and c*t
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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
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Undergrad Difference Between Lorentz Transformation & Special Relativity
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Undergrad Hartle, Gravity pg 34: Question about Time in Non-Inertial Frames
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High School Sign of Expansion Scalar in Expanding FLRW Universe
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High School Gravitational acceleration and sub-atomic electric charge
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Undergrad Why are acceleration, jerk, etc not relative, just like velocity?
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High School Einstein's Twin Paradox: Confusing Solution?
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Undergrad Carroll GR: Geodesic Eq from Var Principles
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Undergrad Using position of free particle to measure time
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Undergrad Equations of Motion for Massless Particle in Potential
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Undergrad Def Proper Time GR: Half or Integral Along Path?
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Graduate Can a Null Surface Satisfy the Requirements for a Cauchy Surface?
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Graduate What is the formal definition of spacetime in physics?
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Undergrad Coord Transform in de Sitter Space: Phys Significance &Linearity?
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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
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Undergrad Carroll GR: Tangent Space & Partial Derivatives
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Graduate What does G mean in general relativity?
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Graduate Computing Thomas Precession: Part 2 | Francesco
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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?
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High School (ELI5) why can’t massless particles travel infinitely fast?
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Undergrad Michelson-Morley: Errors in Calculations?
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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
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High School Does Force Travel Faster Than Light?
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High School General Relativity & Grav. Time Dilation Qn
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Undergrad Matter Gaining Energy from Expanding Spacetime?
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Undergrad Difference Between Locally Flat & Locally Inertial?
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Undergrad Does Special and General Relativity Affect Aging of Apollo Astronauts?
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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
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High School High Frequency Photons: More Mass, More Bend?
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Undergrad Cosmic Inflation Explained: Constant Velocity of Electromagnetic Radiation
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Graduate Relativistic Relative Velocity Comp.: Bini, D. et al. (1995)
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High School Differences in Predictions between SR and LR?
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Undergrad Spacetime interval and basic properties of light
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Graduate Can discrete temporal symmetries exist in general relativity?
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Undergrad Understanding Simultaneity Through Male & Female Clocks Meeting
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Undergrad Karl Schwarzschild: Solving GR on the Eastern Front
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Undergrad Effect of Black Hole Spin on Gravity
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High School What Causes Mass to Exert Gravitational Pull?
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Graduate Solving Equation 15.43 Line 2 to 3 in Tevian Dray's Differential Forms
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Undergrad Spatially Homogeneous Scalar Field on Spacetime: Showing $\nabla^2 f$
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Graduate (paper) Stability properties of Kerr BH's
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Undergrad Being at the position of a singularity before it is formed
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High School Can gravitational time dilation explain the galaxy rotation curve?
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Undergrad 4D d'Alembert Green's function for linearised metric
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High School Andy Weir's "Hail Mary": Question About Relativistic Rocket
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High School Twin Paradox (3 objects version)
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Undergrad Calculating Particle Redshift at Time t_0 & t_1
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Undergrad The Derivative Nature of Time and Its Relation to Earth's Rotation and Speed
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Undergrad Follow Up on M. LeBellac & J.M. Levy-Leblond's "Galilean Electromagnetism
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Graduate What assumptions underly the Lorentz transformation?
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Undergrad How is proper time visualized in the FLRW metric's 4D spacetime geometry?
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Undergrad Only Minkowski or Galilei from Commutative Velocity Composition
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Undergrad Gravity Wave Speed: Deriving Constancy from Maxwell Eqs.
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Undergrad Understanding Covariant and Partial Derivatives in General Relativity
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Undergrad Lorentz Transformation Derivation: Assumptions Req'd?
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High School Calculating Time Dilation w/ Light Clock - Implications & Mistakes?
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High School Cosmic Inflation & Censorship: Validation or Corrections?
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Undergrad What Happens Inside BH Event Horizon?
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Undergrad Calculating Relative Change in Travel Time Due to Spacetime Perturbation
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Undergrad Please help with my spacetime diagrams (relativity problem)
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High School Time: What We Read On The Clock?
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Undergrad Diagonal Matrix of Stress-Energy Tensor: Why?
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Undergrad Why Does Covariant Index Represent Partial Derivative in Special Relativity?
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Undergrad Conserved Quantity Along Affine Parameter
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Undergrad Light Clock Relativity: Why Divide T_moving/T_stationary?
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Undergrad Question about Stress-Energy Tensor: A First Course in GR
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Graduate Is Gravity Just the Electrostatic Force?
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High School Can Particles Escape a Black Hole? The Hawking Radiation Improbability
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Undergrad Uniform gravitational field possible in GR?
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Graduate Connectedness of Boundary Points in Schwarzschild Penrose Chart
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Undergrad Why do we still say “the speed of light” instead of “c”?
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Undergrad Definition of "Physical Frame": All You Need To Know
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Undergrad Is the concept of a one-way speed of light meaningful and measurable?
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High School Object Weight on Magnetar vs Neutron Star: Attract or Repel?
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Graduate Special Relativity Fiber Bundle: R^3 & Lorentz Metric
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Undergrad Speed of Light: Spaceship & Gravity Law Impact
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Undergrad Why is Number-Flux Four-Vector Frame-Independent?
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Undergrad Velocity addition via k-calculus
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High School Penrose Diag Black Hole: Riddle Me This
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Undergrad The Length of World Line: Prerequisite for Proper Time
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Graduate Britgrav Weyl Tensor Research: Find Paper Authors, Title & Accessibility
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Undergrad Why Is Minkowski Spacetime Non-Euclidean?
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Undergrad Weak principle of equivalence (Galileo, Newton)
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High School Does Mass Have Lasting Gravitational Effect Over Time?
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Undergrad The Theoretical Minimum: Length Contraction and Time Dilation
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Graduate Units of Kerr Understanding Mass & Angular Momentum
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High School Free Fall in Curved Spacetime: Does Minkowski Spacetime Exist?
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Undergrad Searching for "Why Is Minkowski Spacetime Non-Euclidean" by Cronkhite
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Undergrad Constraints on Lorentz Velocity Transformation
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Undergrad Does Space Curvature Account for Gravity Between Individual Atoms?
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