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Graduate What is the relativistic cause of planetary orbital rotation.
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Graduate Which principle would be violated?
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Graduate What does the trace of the stress-energy tensor represent?
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Graduate Einstein holding Maxwell's equations above Newton's equations
- diagopod
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Graduate Could GPS satellites be used to detect gravitational waves?
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Graduate Equivalence principle and gravitational neutron diffraction
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Graduate Why Is the tt Component of the Metric Interpreted Differently in This Paper?
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Graduate Perturbative Construction of General Relativity
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High School Do not understand why 'c' is squared in Einstein's equation
- FlipUnderwood
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Graduate How Do Black Holes Form from Space-Time Curvature?
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Graduate Did Einstein Have Multiple Definitions of Time?
- Salman2
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Graduate Maxwell's Equations in a Medium
- Anamitra
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Undergrad Why doesn't light get absorbed?
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Undergrad Do Photons Have Mass and Momentum?
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High School Why Does Gravity Pull Objects Together?
- gkangelexa
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Graduate A question regarding Special Relativity.
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Graduate Can the Universe Travel Faster Than Light and Time Travel?
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Graduate Can matter and anti matter manipulation be used for replication of
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Graduate Can two stationary electrons generate a magnetic field?
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Undergrad What does time mean at t=1/infinity?
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Graduate The crossing of two light waves, a point standing still ?
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High School Is Time Travel Possible with Speed of Light?
- loffus
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Graduate Is There Research on Spacetime Elasticity and Its Relationship with Mass?
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Undergrad Does Traveling Affect Age? A Thought Experiment
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Graduate Can Neutrinos Travel Faster thyan Light?
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Graduate Fourier transform in Minkowski space
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Graduate The Schwartzschild solution - why no Stress Tensor?
- TerryW
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Graduate Communicating Through an Einstein-Rosen Bridge Without Causality Violation
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Undergrad Potential energy contributes more to gravity
- bobsmith76
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Graduate Question on Time Dilation for Traveling Observers
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Graduate Why Does Lorentz Transformation Not Yield the General Form of Four-Acceleration?
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Undergrad Are time dilation, length contraction and space-time curvature experimentally verified?
- shounakbhatta
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Graduate Questions about photons. Their interaction with time and their life-cycle.
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Graduate Speed of Light and Relativity of simultaneity
- darktangent1
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Graduate What Are the Limits of Acceleration and Energy in Relativity?
- Frogeyedpeas
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Graduate Why does special relativity invalidate the Michelson-Morley experiment?
- ft_c
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Graduate What is Waving in Light Waves?
- VegaMan
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Graduate Question on The Dichotomy Paradox
- LGram16
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Graduate I have a crude understanding of dark energy and the relativist universe.
- dacruick
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Undergrad Energy of photon never becomes zero
- NIKHEL RAINA
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Undergrad Can the change in energy change the mass?
- AudioFlux
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Graduate Time Dilation: Two Observers, Different Times
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Graduate My understanding of Space, Time and spacetime
- halix
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Graduate Newton's 3rd law violation with separated charges in special relativity
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Graduate Angular momentum conservation as a spinning neutron star collapses to a singularity
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Graduate How can a metric connection have torsion?
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Graduate If energy/matter deforms spacetime in three dimensions
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Undergrad Does Earth's Rotation and Revolution Affect Time and Speed?
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Graduate Relativistic velocity addition for objects moving at 0.6c in opposite directions
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Graduate Derivation of expansion scalar for FRW spacetime - weird observation
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Graduate Distance light travels in a relatively moving frame?
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Graduate What is it that sets the speed limit of light?
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Graduate Confusion over Einstein summation convention and metric tensors.
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Graduate Center of mass of a system of two photons
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Graduate What do I do with these christoffel symbols?
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Undergrad Combining SR and the Broglie Wavelength equations: Are they cumulative?
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Graduate Can motion be detected without external reference in a moving container?
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Undergrad Why is light speed constant in all reference frames?
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Graduate How does curved space create gravity?
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Graduate How did Albert Einstein figure this out?
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Undergrad Why is the time interval t'1 - t'2 in the relativity of simultaneity equation?
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Graduate Issues entering a spacetime in GRTensor II
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Graduate Does Time Flow for a Photon in the Context of Time-Space?
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Undergrad Why does x-ct=0=x'-ct' not imply M=1 in Lorentz transformation derivation?
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Graduate A mind experiment about speed and time
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Graduate Mass is Energy Moving Faster then Light?
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Graduate In the back of the popular Relativity book
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Graduate Time dilation and clock readings for 0.5c travel
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Graduate How Does Newton's F=ma Relate to the Geodesic Equation in General Relativity?
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Graduate Radius of Ring Singularity in Kerr Black Hole
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Graduate Global observations from Rindler frame
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Graduate Worldline congruence and general covariance
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Graduate Oppenheimer Snyder Collapse - finite time?
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Graduate Can you measure the proper length of a rope when dangling it into a black hole?
- Slinkey
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Undergrad Black hole matter accumulation
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Graduate Divergence of Energy-momentum Tensor
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Graduate How Does Time Dilation Affect Subjective Travel Times in Space?
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Graduate How can a point-like singularity have spin angular momentum?
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Graduate Vacuum and non-vacuum regions, dust and fluids
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Graduate Combining General Relativity and Geodesy: A Master's Project Topic Suggestion
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Undergrad Earth's orbit and relative speed/time
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Graduate A thought experiment with theory of relativity.
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Graduate Momentum at the speed of light
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Undergrad Need quick answer on spatial dimensions
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Graduate How do I use Einstein's field equations to solve for particle locations?
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Graduate Red/blue shift in classic train/platfom thought experiment?
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Graduate Is Magnetism Affecting Our Clocks in Space?
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Undergrad The relationship between light, energy and relativity
- That fast guy
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Graduate How Does Mass and Energy Affect Space-Time in Relativity?
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Graduate Special Relativity and the existence paradox
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Graduate How does gravitational acceleration change near an event horizon?
- Slinkey
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Time: A Scientific Exploration
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Graduate Absolute Space and Moving Co-ordinates.
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High School Comparative speed of moving vs unmoving
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Graduate Spherical Mass Shell - What Actually Happens?
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Graduate Simultaneity is directional while time dilation is not?
- universal_101
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Graduate Spacetime expanding within galaxies?
- cbd1
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High School Whether the speed of alternative/direct current is faster than light?
- Mr.GaGa
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Graduate What is the issue with photon rest mass?
- CoolBeans
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Graduate Why does time depend on light?
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