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Graduate Simple question about time dilation in accelerated reference frames
- enfield
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Undergrad How did light speed become the governor of relativity?
- narrator
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Graduate SR: Questions on Time Synchronization & Relativity
- goodabouthood
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Graduate Different Slices of Now Observable from Earth?
- Vanadium90
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Graduate Can Negative Mass Really Defy Gravity?
- stglyde
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Graduate What experiment shows that the universal speed limit is the same as light?
- thenewmans
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Undergrad Why Is Light Speed a Limit for Spacecraft?
- machine_slave
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Graduate I would like to see the math of something
- JT73
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Graduate Question about how Time varies with Velocity
- rsclafani
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Graduate Spacetime desynchronized in quantum realm?
- stglyde
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Graduate Diagonal Metric and General Relativity: A Fundamental Question
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Graduate What happens to stars in front of a falling observer entering a black hole?
- Passionflower
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Graduate Does a Photon Traveling at Light Speed Imply Infinite Mass and Energy?
- E=mc4
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Graduate Question of units of B, H in Gaussian system
- Master J
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Undergrad I have a question for the masses. if you were traveling at 60 mph
- trix5153
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Graduate Metric of 2 Bodies: Superposition & Resulting Tensor
- tarquinius
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Graduate Can a Car's Stereo Still Function at the Speed of Light?
- Ransom7D
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Graduate Understanding Inextendible Worldlines in Manifolds: Examples and Applications
- Matterwave
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Mind-Bending Mirror Puzzle: Experience the Impossible in Bali
- PatrickPowers
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Graduate Does time stop for a photon? Why is that a nonsensical question?
- JamieForum
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Graduate Gravitational field conceptual question
- PrakashPhy
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Graduate Calculating GPS Accuracy Using Special Relativity and General Relativity
- godtripp
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Graduate What is the observed precession of Mercury?
- utesfan100
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Graduate Can Time Dilation Allow for Survival of the Universe's Death?
- Mind Bender
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Graduate Solving Sliding Clock Fun with Two Photons
- Zula110100100
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Graduate How Does General Relativity Explain Earth's Shape and Gravity?
- PatrickPowers
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Graduate Is Gravity Just Inertia in Disguise?
- Gomjabbar
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Graduate Relativistic mass increase appearing to form a black hole vs. a real black hole
- Meatbot
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Graduate Twins Paradox: The paradox within the paradox
- YummyFur
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Graduate Studying special relativity and using the idea of four vectors
- JFo
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Graduate Objects move into gravity=shorter time?
- gabeeisenstei
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Graduate Lorentz Transformations Acceleration: A simple problem
- Albertgauss
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Graduate A problem in special relativity with a surprising result
- pervect
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Graduate The principle of inertia and hypothetical FTL particles
- lalbatros
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Graduate Is a gravitational circuit possible?
- Tosh5457
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Graduate Abraham's light momentum breaks special relativity?
- sciencewatch
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Undergrad Can a human travel to distant stars? And other questions.
- WindScars
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Graduate Solving the Assassin Paradox: A Q&A with Adrian
- AdrianMay
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Graduate What is the effect of a neutron star's gravity on vertical rays of light?
- penomade
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Graduate Twin Paradox: Who is Older - B or C?
- Waaaaaaaa
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Graduate Usefulness of Kretschmann scalar
- HolyCats
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High School List of different relative speeds?
- JT73
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High School If light hits a mirror and then switches direction
- seerskater
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Graduate FTL implies Backward Time Effect
- stglyde
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Graduate About dark matter and the limits of the universe.
- WindScars
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Undergrad Why cant an object travel faster than the speed of light?
- homeylova223
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Graduate What are the differences between an object with mass 0 and mass > 0 ?
- digi99
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Graduate What Do Upper and Lower Indices in Tensor Notation Signify?
- taylrl3
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Graduate Einstein's original 'thought experiment'
- M1keh
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Graduate Relativistic doppler effect - inconsistency in my derivations
- osturk
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Graduate Why does light always travel at c in different reference frames?
- Xilor
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Graduate 2nd order correction to gauge transformation
- matt91a
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Graduate Does Time Dilation Apply to the Big Bang's Mass?
- eddybob123
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Graduate The speed of light and the mass of a photon
- JollyOlly
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Graduate Wald's definition of the Cauchy Horizon
- Matterwave
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Graduate What if speed limit is slightly faster than light?
- thenewmans
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Graduate Redshift and Weak equivalence principle
- Zula110100100
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Graduate What is the Metric Tensor and How is it Used in Tensors?
- Mazulu
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High School Explaining Causality: How and Why it Works
- Casco
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Graduate Noob question about lorentz factor
- Waaaaaaaa
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Graduate How do accelerometers measure acceleration without using relative motion?
- Zula110100100
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Graduate How Does Gravity Store Arbitrarily Negative Energy?
- Lapidus
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Graduate How to explain time dilation easily to others, maybe like this ?
- digi99
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Graduate Derivation of relativistic acceleration and momentum
- phys23
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Graduate Variational methods on Lagrangians (D'Inverno Chapter 11) - continued
- TerryW
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Graduate The Illusion of Time and distant observers
- mjames
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Graduate Black holes and time dilation around the event horizon
- Domisterwoozy
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Graduate Speed of light - why is it a constant?
- Shenstar
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Graduate Reflecting light seen by two moving persons, explanation already known?
- digi99
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Undergrad Measuring Distance to a Star One Light Year Away at 0.5c Speed
- PatrickPowers
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Graduate You approach a planet at a velocity near c, what do you see?
- cowmoo32
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Graduate Is Time Speeding Up? The Possibility of a Universally Accelerating Clock
- dshaw
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Graduate Is SR and GR Time Dilation the same thing?
- goodabouthood
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Graduate Mathematical Basis for Learning Relativity
- gordonj005
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Graduate Can time slow down infinitely in black holes?
- Xilor
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Graduate Question about Brian Greene's wormhole illustration in Fabirc of the Cosmos
- Caeru
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Graduate Length contraction and accelerating frames
- yoron
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Graduate How does relativity explain the different experiences of now for two observers?
- jtaravens
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Graduate Why so many definitions of an inertial frame?
- peter46464
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Graduate Scientific measurement standards
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Graduate Can Quantum Entanglement Enable Time Loops and Superluminal Communication?
- stglyde
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Graduate What Are Lapse Functions in 3+1 General Relativity?
- Mazulu
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Undergrad Time Dilation - Relative to Light Speed or Reference Point - I'm Confused?
- Dickie_Boy
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Graduate Is there really an absolute reference frame?
- pche8701
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Undergrad Is it Possible for A to See B Moving Faster?
- JT73
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Graduate Finding Equations of Motion from the Stress Energy Tensor
- Matterwave
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Graduate Why Is General Relativity Hard to Work With?
- PatrickPowers
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Graduate Symmetry in special relativity
- PatrickPowers
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Graduate The Lorentz Transformations and a Few Concerns
- Anamitra
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Graduate Triplet paradox: where's the error in my logic?
- gespex
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Graduate Does Relativistic Mass Change at the Speed of Light?
- jishitha
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Graduate How does the Twin Paradox demonstrate the effects of general relativity?
- PatrickPowers
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Graduate Twin Paradox Explanation Needed
- jam.muskopf
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Graduate Precession of the LRL Vector in SR
- utesfan100
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Graduate Different values for the inertia of a moving object?
- csmcmillion
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Graduate Going back in space vs Going back in time
- Shannon185
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Graduate Acceleration thought experiment
- Zula110100100
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Undergrad Michelson-Morley experiment doubts
- Highwaydude
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Graduate Is SOL infinite? (from its own point of view)
- Lukas_23
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Undergrad Newton's Second Law: Acceleration Proportional to Force
- mzntr
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