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Graduate Higgs free space travelling, close to lightspeed possible ?
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Graduate Special Relativity Spacetime Intervals
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Graduate Inverse of an operator does not exist, can't see why
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Graduate Photon's disagree of the state of the universe?
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Undergrad A question on Special Relativity
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Graduate Anomalous acceleration of Pioneer 10 and 11
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Graduate Does Relativity Affect Electric Flux Through a Gaussian Surface?
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Graduate Relation between Time-Dilation and Radioactivity
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Graduate A question in the Feynman Lectures on physics,chapter 15-4
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Graduate Can Two Rockets Outrun Each Other's Light Signals in Space?
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Graduate Does the CMB move or is it static?
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Graduate Is there a contradiction here.
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Graduate Raising/Lowering indices and matrix multiplication
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High School Age of Universe relative to what?
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Graduate Infinite universe x Deceleration of expansion
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Graduate Brian Greene, spinning bucket and acceleration
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Graduate A mechanism for Mach's Principle?
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Graduate Inertial frames and related predictions
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Graduate Increase of Mass With Relative Velocity Proven?
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Graduate Doesnt information travel faster than light in case of black holes?
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Graduate Euclidean Quantum Gravity and its relevance
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Graduate Speed of light = oo mass = black hole?
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Graduate Geometric Understanding of Tensors.
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Graduate Does anyone else question general relativity?
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Graduate GR & Rotating Water: Mach's Principle Explained
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Graduate ST Does Spacetime Actually Curve?
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Graduate Vacuum Energy in SR: A Relativity Question
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Graduate Time Dilation and Space Travel: Is Wikipedia example wrong?
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Graduate Does FTL Travel Really Lead to Time Travel?
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Graduate What is a principal null direction
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Graduate Could Maximum Gravity Explain Curved Space Phenomena?
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Graduate Twins Paradox - but with a different spin
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Graduate The Elegance and Complexity of Theories Beyond Special and General Relativity
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Graduate Instantaneous communication, Aharanov-Bohm and the Coulomb Gauge
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Graduate Why isn't velocity a dimension in SR?
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Undergrad Unraveling the Time Dilation Argument: Does Speed Affect the Passage of Time?
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Graduate Correlating/deriving space time bend with law of gravitation
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Undergrad How To Travel at The Speed of Light
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Graduate SR - car with headlights - new twist
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Graduate 4-velocity transforms as a vector?
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Graduate 0.0018 degrees/year due geodetical effect
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Graduate Energy momentum of linearized gravity.
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Graduate Measuring curvature of space around a star
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Graduate How can a black hole evaporate instantly if speed of gravity is c?
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Undergrad Why the speed of light in the equation?
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Graduate Time dilation in minkowski diagrams
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Universal Rate of Movement = Time
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Graduate Time dilation and Length contraction in Saddle Geometries
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Graduate Traveling parallel to a ray of light through a gravitational field
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Graduate Lorentz Boosts in Group Representation (from Weinberg)
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High School Does time dilation affect the relative motion that causes it?
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Graduate What do I see if I was a particle at speed moving by a spaceship?
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Graduate Is Mass the Absolute Frame of Reference in the Universe?
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Undergrad SR vs. GR: Unraveling the Differences in These Two Theories of Relativity
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Graduate Gravity: How Fast Does it Travel?
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Graduate Timelike geodesics in Schwarzschild Metric.
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Graduate Time dilation vs effects of high speed motion
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Undergrad Block Universe Theory: Evidence For & Against
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Graduate Covariant derivative of coordinates
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Graduate Light's direction of travel, bending, and speed
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Graduate Does Time Equate to Motion in the Theory of Relativity?
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Undergrad Is the Earth's gravity actually caused by its acceleration?
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Graduate Does radioactivity suffer time dilation?
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Graduate How does LQG handle discreteness?
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Graduate How Does Momentum in Special Relativity Connect with Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Levi-Civita Symbol: Understanding Rank 8 Tensor Properties
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Graduate Spacetime Interval in non-inertial frames.
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Graduate FTL Travel: Is it Possible to Violate C?
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High School How much faster does time pass in space in comparison to that on Earth?
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Graduate Can quantum mechanics explain the relationship between mass and energy?
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Graduate Decoding Mercury's Anomalous Precession: Discovering Pre-GR Explanations | [url]
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Graduate No. of Independent Components of Riemann Tensor in Schwartzchild Metric
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Undergrad What does the time coordinate represent in spacetime?
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Graduate Time dilation derivations - help me out just looking for references
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Graduate Driving a car with headlights on at the speed of light: another question
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Undergrad Where can I find the formula for the relavistic rocket equation?
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Graduate Neutrino Experiments at CERN: c=? | Is the Answer Out There?
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Graduate What Lies Inside a Black Hole?
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Graduate 1 = v^2 + t^2? and look at spacetime as velocity as x axis, time as y axis.
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Graduate Max Born's Reflections on the Non-Existent Ether
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Graduate The Arrow of Time: The Laws of Physics and the Concept of Time Reversal
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Graduate Is Our Understanding of the Space of Einstein Metrics Limited?
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Graduate How can objects in 4-D spacetime interact after experiencing time dilation?
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Graduate Bell's Spaceship Paradox - Shouldn't the thread stay connected?
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Graduate Event Horizons & Falling Objects: Will Bob See It?
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Graduate Time in Physics 4-Vectors: Is Time Included in the Position Four-Vector?
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Undergrad Gravitational waves and Tidal forces
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Graduate Is the Arthur Beiser Logic in Concepts of Modern Physics Appropriate?
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Graduate Relativistic angular momentum and cyclic coordinates
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Graduate The End of Physics and Failure to Integrate QM & Relativity
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Graduate Can someone explain the logic behind Einstein's Mirrors Experiment?
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Graduate Grazing collision of two black holes
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Graduate Speed of light becomes Infinity and Zero
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Graduate General question about E-L in revativity
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Graduate Relativity of rotating system(s)
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Graduate What is varing in the variational principle of GR
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Graduate Lorentz Contraction/ Simultan Problem
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Graduate Solving D'Inverno Ch 19 Problem 19.5
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Graduate In curved space-time, what causes gravitational acceleration?
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Graduate Understanding Relative Velocity and the Speed of Light
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