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Graduate Thought Experiment regarding Time
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Graduate How Does the Electric Field of a Moving Point Charge Differ from Its Rest Frame?
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Graduate Time Dilation in a Non-Rotating Laser Sphere: Inside vs Outside
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Graduate Is nonholonomic Xformation = Diffeomorphism
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Undergrad Time Dilation and Length Contraction the same thing?
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How Does Light Travel Through a Coke Bottle?
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Undergrad Length of Moving Rod Relative to Frame S
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Undergrad Why Does Stationary Observer See Light Clock Traverse Longer Distance?
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Graduate Could Neutrino Bursts Be the Key to FTL Communication in SETI Research?
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Undergrad Aberration of light in classical and relatvistical cases
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Graduate Very confused about path of light from distant galaxies :-(
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Graduate How relativity could explain this engineering problem.
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Graduate Spacetime Fabric Shear Strength
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Graduate What is the Densest Known Material?
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Graduate Can Black Holes Challenge the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
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Graduate What is the concept of aberration in classical and relativistic physics?
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Undergrad Are gravitational effects instantaneous?
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Graduate What is Kaluza-Klein Particle & How Does It Work?
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Graduate Inverse coefficients of dt & dr in Schwarzschild
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Graduate Recommended GR Texts for Physics/Math Background
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Graduate Does a photon know how fast to leave its emitter?
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Graduate SR, LET, FTL & Causality Violation
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Graduate What comprises a SRT relative velocity?
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Graduate Light Reflection Question: Velocity and the Infinite Mirror
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Graduate Foliation of time in quantum gravity
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Graduate Twin Paradox: How Much Time Has Passed on Earth?
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Graduate Asymmetric Schwarzschild solution
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Graduate Understanding proper distance in Schwarzschild solution.
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Graduate Gravity AND curved space-time bending light
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Graduate Does mass really increase with speed
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Graduate Proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus
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Graduate Questions about Alcubierre Drive
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Graduate Gravitational behaviour of antimatter
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How Could You Explore Interdimensional Travel Options?
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Graduate Do we not even exist in some FoR?
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Graduate Light Speed Question: How Can 2 Light Particles Approach Each Other at 1xC?
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Graduate Woodward Effect? Explain, please?
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Graduate How can you drive the metric of kaluza klein in 5 D?
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Graduate Lorentzian contraction of a box increases the pressure inside?
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High School Galilean transformation - can you show me an example?
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Graduate If a absolute point would exist, still relativity theory would be valid
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Graduate Rotating black holes, causality and time travel ramble
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High School Do things move in uniform motion in real life?
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Graduate Acceleration through PD, relativistic momentum
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Graduate Can pressure cause gravity in a box of light?
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Graduate Falloff behaviour of light vs gravitation
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Graduate Another two ships relativity question
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Graduate Calculation of an integral with retarded time
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Graduate Minimum safe distance to black hole
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Graduate Temperature in different frames
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Graduate General Relativity, is gravity a force?
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Discussion of Inertial Frames of Reference
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Graduate Is Space the Key to Understanding Everything in Physics?
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Graduate Mass of Higgs & Relativistic: Is it Comprised of Both?
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Undergrad Why force due to gravity or gravitation cannot be measured.
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Undergrad Kinetic Energy approximation both Einstein's and Newton's
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Time Stasis Chamber: Potential Tech in Near Future?
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Graduate Mathematical Axioms of General Relativity
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Graduate What Paradox of Simultaneity Did Feynman Challenge Us to Explore?
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Graduate Observation from Single reference frame and STR
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Graduate Why is this idea on addition of velocities in SR wrong?
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Undergrad Speed of two spaceships relative to each other observed by an earth observer
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Graduate Gravity: force or space-time curvature?
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Graduate Radial expansion of the universe and the speed of light
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Graduate Special relativity implies very odd results
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Graduate Why nothing about acceleration?
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Graduate Velocity of a photon from its own reference frame
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Graduate Why extremal aging, not just maximal? (for an inertial body in spacetime)
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Graduate Large black holes and information
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High School Does relativity have any day to day life applications?
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Graduate Physical meaning of tensor contraction
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Undergrad Is the Milky Way galactic blackhole slowly sucking us in?
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Undergrad Why does time slow down the faster you go?
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Graduate What is the relationship between the Higgs boson and gravity?
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Graduate Quick question about curvation of spacetime
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Graduate Non-Tensors in GR: Affine Connections & Christoffel Symbols
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Graduate Difference between Newton & GR
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Graduate Spacetime, physical or not really?
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Graduate The Validity of Force and Point Particles in Special Relativity
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Undergrad E=mc^2, but nothing can travel faster than light?
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Undergrad Understanding the Relationship Between Gravity and Light
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Graduate Gravitational Redshift really verification of GR?
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Graduate Twin Paradox: Solving Confusing Explanations
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Graduate The Speed of Light & Gravity: Varied Across the Universe?
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Graduate Energy in two different frames
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Graduate Understanding the Speed of Light and Its Measurement
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Graduate How do I go about learning GR?
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Graduate Can Forces Be Interpreted as Christoffel Symbols in General Covariance Contexts?
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Graduate Wormholes aren't ruled out in the wonderful universe of relativity
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Graduate Questions regarding relativistic momentum
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Graduate C maximized in its own direction, so v > c possible ?
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Graduate Particle Lifetime in Gravity: Experimental Evidence?
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Graduate Time, Light, and Relativity: Photons from the Past
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Graduate We can travel faster that light?
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Graduate Alternate derivation of Lorentz Trans.
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Undergrad At what speed would one day = one year?
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Graduate Analogy between centrifugal force and gravity
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Undergrad What if something went faster than light?
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Graduate Where Do 2nd Order Terms in Gauge Transformation Come From?
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Graduate Photon interaction with gravity.
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