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Graduate The Doppler Effect: Impact of Relative Motion on Light Waves
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Graduate How Does Motion Impact Pendulum Clock Accuracy?
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Graduate Questions about Equivalence principle & Einstein Elevator?
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Graduate Understanding Lovelock Gravity Theory and Riemman Tensor
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Graduate Understanding Negative t Coordinates in Lorentz Transformations
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Graduate What is the relationship between the equation E^2 - p^2c^2 = m^2c^4
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Graduate Flat spacetime + gravitons = Curved spacetime?
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High School 1 minute to deliver a baby in speed of light ?
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Graduate Stellar aberation, a One way measurement of c?
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Graduate Relativity vs competing theories
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Graduate Acceleration doesn't cause the Twin Paradox?
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Graduate Exactly how is causality violated by superluminal travel?
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Graduate Modern Physics view of Length Contraction?
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Undergrad Time dilation explaination with mechanical clock instead of light clock
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Undergrad Ed: The Significance of C in E=mc2 Explained
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Graduate Can Anything Move Beyond the Speed of Light?
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Graduate Is the interval the height of the triangle?
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Graduate Poincare vs Lorentz Group
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Graduate Some remarks on Einstein's 1907 paper on Relativity
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Graduate Time Dilation Scenario: Einstein's Skaters on a Moving Conveyor Belt
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Graduate Different gravitational fields from different reference points
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Graduate Jerk in Gravitation: Are Accelerations Equal in Cases of Varying Distances?
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Undergrad Flying at the Speed of Sound: What Would a Human Feel?
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Graduate How are the clock hypothesis and Unruh effect reconciled.
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Graduate Where does a photon get it's infinite energy from?
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Graduate Time delation or clock malfunction
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Graduate What is the relativistic equation for finding kinetic energy?
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Graduate Twin Paradox in Relativity: Examining Motion, Time and Distance
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Graduate Understanding curvature tensor equation
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Graduate Snell's law and General Relativity
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Graduate Historical question: Equations of motion from lagrangian
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Graduate How does the duration of acceleration affect the Twin Paradox?
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Undergrad Is Time Dilation Caused by Distance?
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Graduate How does mass cause the curvature of spacetime at a distance?
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Graduate Couldn't you accelerate past light by means of gravitational acceleration?
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Graduate What is the relationship between particle and energy frames in fluid dynamics?
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Graduate Need a code to construct an antisymmetric tensor with Mathematica 6.
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Graduate Does an object emitting electromagnetic radiation really lose mass?
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Graduate Einstein Tensor; super simple derivation; where did I go wrong?
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Graduate How important is the research LISA would do if they ever finished building?
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Graduate Why doesn't Diffeomorphism Invariance lead to Scale Invariance?
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Undergrad Relative motion and collisions
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Graduate Einstein thought experiment, different outcome of a same event
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Graduate Understanding the 4-Vector Nature of the Electromagnetic 4 Potential
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Graduate Name Of A Good Book (Modern Physics)
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Graduate A Dissident View of Relativity Theory
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Graduate Is My Journey Through the Universe a Valid Inertial Frame?
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Graduate Relativistic speeds going perpendicular
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Graduate Help a rookie understand lightspeed
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Graduate What Real Experiments Explore the Speed of Gravity?
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Graduate Permittivity, permeabiltiy and gravity
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Graduate Direct observation of lorentz length contraction
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High School Is My Time Dilation Equation Correct?
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Undergrad Unravelling the Mystery of Light Speed (c)
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Graduate Why does light seem to slow down when passing through transparent materials?
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Graduate How Does the Principle of Extremal Aging Determine the Path of a Free Object?
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Graduate Question about charge without charge
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Graduate Sciama's Machian Origin of Inertia
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Undergrad Is Dark Energy the Cause of the Universe's Accelerating Expansion?
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Graduate Effect of Gravity on the Speed of Light
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Graduate Is the vacuum stress energy tensor Lorentz invariant ?
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High School Can gravity be destroyed explain
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Graduate Tachyonic Energies in a Minkowski Metric
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Undergrad Travel Instantly: Is Distance Still a Factor?
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Graduate Can Protons Reach 199.99998% the Speed of Light in Collisions?
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Graduate Do balck holes violate the constancy of the speed of light
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Graduate About the instability of wormholes
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Graduate Gravitational Acceleration and Rising Objects
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Graduate How Does Time Behave from the Perspective of Light in Relativity?
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Graduate Photons of different energy follow different geodesics?
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Graduate Is the Principle of Relativity Valid for Faster-than-Light Propagation?
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Graduate Is Time Reversed in Special Relativity When Moving Opposite to Light?
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Graduate Time dilation in acceleration or velocity
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Undergrad Basic questions on the speed of light
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Graduate Lightcones in advanced Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates
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Graduate Interference Pattern versus SR
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Undergrad Can light be transmitted through a fluid medium?
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Graduate Lorentz Contraction: Gaining Mass & Shrinking
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Graduate Does photon have a rest frame?
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Graduate What Would You See on a Relativistic Journey to a Distant Star?
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Undergrad Question of Relativity and the Speed of Light?
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Undergrad What is the speed of gravitational waves?
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Graduate Light in local reference frames in extreme gravitational fields.
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Graduate Is curved space cancelled between two massive bodies?
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Graduate Velocity addition formula for multiple velocities within each other
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Graduate Warping of space and special relativity?
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Undergrad Wormholes for Dummies: Calculating Distance
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Graduate Hi,After having studied special relativity, I sometimes see things
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Graduate What Does It Mean to Travel at the Speed of Light in the 4th Dimension?
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Graduate Why does E=MC² use the speed of light squared as a constant?
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Graduate Theories for Mechanisms Underlying SR/GR?
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Graduate Did I Witness a Moving Train or a Stationary One? The Mystery of Bolts of Light
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Graduate Would someone care to elaborate
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Undergrad Speed of Light Limit: Earth & Spaceships
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Graduate Is the flow of time at rest a universal constant?
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Graduate Is Time Travel Possible with Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate 8-dimensional Minkowski spacetime
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Undergrad Timetraveller killing himself in the past
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Graduate Exercises of Schutz's First Course of General Relativity
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Graduate Relativistic aberration and locally measured electric flux density
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