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Undergrad Michelson-Morley: Errors in Calculations?
- vchal
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Undergrad Can circular polarizers generate wormholes and warp drives?
- sddfds
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Undergrad How do you contract the 2nd and 4th indices of the Riemann tensor?
- GR191511
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High School Does Force Travel Faster Than Light?
- MrSimp
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High School Does the gravitational time dilation factor have a name?
- IXWELL
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Undergrad Matter Gaining Energy from Expanding Spacetime?
- Suekdccia
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Undergrad Are locally flat and locally inertial frames equivalent?
- GR191511
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Undergrad Does Special and General Relativity Affect Aging of Apollo Astronauts?
- PeterDonis
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High School Does separating two masses increase system mass via gravitational binding energy?
- andrew s 1905
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Undergrad Calculate Gaussian Curvature from 4D Metric Tensor
- Sciencemaster
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High School Do high frequency photons bend more in gravity?
- mdeng
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Undergrad Does the speed of light vary with the energy-to-mass ratio in the universe?
- JonathanMFreedman
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Graduate Relativistic Relative Velocity Comp.: Bini, D. et al. (1995)
- More_anonymous
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High School Differences in Predictions between SR and LR?
- alexandrinushka
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Undergrad Spacetime interval and basic properties of light
- HansH
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Graduate Can discrete temporal symmetries exist in general relativity?
- Tertius
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Undergrad How do moving clocks stay synchronized if light reaches them at different times?
- Master Wayne
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Undergrad Karl Schwarzschild: Solving GR on the Eastern Front
- BWV
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Undergrad Effect of Black Hole Spin on Gravity
- BWV
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High School What Causes Mass to Exert Gravitational Pull?
- Palasta
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Graduate Solving Equation 15.43 Line 2 to 3 in Tevian Dray's Differential Forms
- gnnmartin
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Undergrad Spatially Homogeneous Scalar Field on Spacetime: Showing $\nabla^2 f$
- ergospherical
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Graduate (paper) Stability properties of Kerr BH's
- malawi_glenn
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Undergrad Being at the position of a singularity before it is formed
- HansH
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High School Can gravitational time dilation explain the galaxy rotation curve?
- sha1000
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Undergrad 4D d'Alembert Green's function for linearised metric
- ergospherical
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High School Why does a relativistic rocket need less fuel in Hail Mary?
- GTOM
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High School Twin Paradox (3 objects version)
- h1a8
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Undergrad Particle velocity relation in FLRW spacetime
- ergospherical
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Undergrad The Derivative Nature of Time and Its Relation to Earth's Rotation and Speed
- sumfor
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Undergrad Galilean electromagnetism in LeBellac and Levy-Leblond (1973)
- otennert
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Graduate What assumptions underly the Lorentz transformation?
- Ad VanderVen
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Undergrad How is proper time visualized in the FLRW metric's 4D spacetime geometry?
- Ennio
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Undergrad Only Minkowski or Galilei from Commutative Velocity Composition
- Sagittarius A-Star
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Undergrad Gravity Wave Speed: Deriving Constancy from Maxwell Eqs.
- Narasoma
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Undergrad Understanding Covariant and Partial Derivatives in General Relativity
- GR191511
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Undergrad Lorentz Transformation Derivation: Assumptions Req'd?
- Pencilvester
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High School Calculating Time Dilation w/ Light Clock - Implications & Mistakes?
- rgtr
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High School Are cosmic inflation and cosmic censorship still being corrected or validated?
- Le Tenie
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Undergrad What Happens Inside BH Event Horizon?
- kochanskij
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Undergrad Calculating Relative Change in Travel Time Due to Spacetime Perturbation
- cicero
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Undergrad Why does an event appear far away in Object B's rest frame spacetime diagram?
- student34
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High School What does Einstein mean by time is what we read on the clock?
- DanAil
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Undergrad Why must a diagonal stress-energy tensor be a multiple of the identity?
- GR191511
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Undergrad Why Does Covariant Index Represent Partial Derivative in Special Relativity?
- GR191511
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Undergrad Conserved Quantity Along Affine Parameter
- Dale
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Undergrad Why is time dilation a ratio, not a difference?
- rgtr
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Undergrad When are off-diagonal stress-energy tensor components zero?
- GR191511
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Graduate Is Gravity Just the Electrostatic Force?
- TruthSeeker777
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High School Can Particles Escape a Black Hole? The Hawking Radiation Improbability
- pforeman
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Undergrad Uniform gravitational field possible in GR?
- JandeWandelaar
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Graduate Connectedness of Boundary Points in Schwarzschild Penrose Chart
- PeterDonis
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Undergrad Why do we still say “the speed of light” instead of “c”?
- katakuri
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Undergrad What is a physical frame in cosmology?
- Vincentius
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Undergrad Is the concept of a one-way speed of light meaningful and measurable?
- Freixas
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High School Object Weight on Magnetar vs Neutron Star: Attract or Repel?
- kuartus4
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Graduate Can spacetime be modeled as a fiber bundle with time as base and R^3 fibers?
- Thytanium
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Undergrad Does a spaceship at relativistic speed increase gravitational effects?
- abdossamad2003
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Undergrad Why is Number-Flux Four-Vector Frame-Independent?
- GR191511
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Undergrad Velocity addition via k-calculus
- pervect
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High School Why does the event horizon tilt 45 degrees on Penrose diagrams?
- sbaker8688
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Undergrad The Length of World Line: Prerequisite for Proper Time
- GR191511
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Graduate Finding a Britgrav paper on rotating spacetime with Weyl tensor waves
- gnnmartin
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Undergrad Why Is Minkowski Spacetime Non-Euclidean?
- Trysse
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Undergrad Weak principle of equivalence (Galileo, Newton)
- qnt200
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High School Does Mass Have Lasting Gravitational Effect Over Time?
- kyle1320
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Undergrad Why does a leg exceed the hypotenuse in spacetime diagrams?
- DavidBalut
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Graduate Why does M⁴ > J² work dimensionally in Kerr solution?
- swampwiz
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High School Does Minkowski spacetime actually exist in the real universe?
- DanAil
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Undergrad Searching for "Why Is Minkowski Spacetime Non-Euclidean" by Cronkhite
- Trysse
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Undergrad Constraints on Lorentz Velocity Transformation
- alhuebel
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Undergrad Does Space Curvature Account for Gravity Between Individual Atoms?
- Martyn Arthur
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Undergrad Can Maxwell's Equations Explain Gravitation Through Retarded Wave Solutions?
- paige turner
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Graduate Schwarzschild Geometry: Evaluating Proper Distance
- kirkr
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High School What does orthogonality between time and space mean in non-inertial frames?
- lindberg
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Undergrad Why is co-moving coordinates always possible in ADM decomposition?
- Tertius
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Undergrad Will a spherical mass be set in motion by a spherical shell rotating around it?
- JandeWandelaar
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High School Proving Reciprocity Of Time Dilation
- DanAil
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Undergrad Can you use relativistic velocity addition on a rotating disk rim?
- lindberg
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Undergrad How can Shape Dynamics match GR and SR predictions without time or simultaneity?
- lindberg
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Undergrad Questions concerning the geometry of spacetime
- student34
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High School Can Black Hole Gravity Be Overpowered?
- Picalilli
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Undergrad Relativistic Velocity Addition: Calculating Electron Speed
- lindberg
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Undergrad Does the Light's One/Two-Way Speed Distinction Mean Anything?
- Pony
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Undergrad How to find eigenvalues of the electromagnetic and stress-energy tensors
- ergospherical
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Graduate Worked examples Cartan Formalism
- zwoodrow
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Graduate Extra term in the relativistic Euler equation for fluids
- Bruno Cardin
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Undergrad Why am I getting the wrong conclusion from my spacetime diagram?
- student34
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Undergrad Instrument Size & Wavelength: What's the Relationship?
- accdd
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Undergrad Minkowski metric index notation in Lorentz transformations
- GR191511
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High School Can a Planet Made of Glass Generate Free Energy?
- Pony
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Undergrad Do charged particles gain or lose kinetic energy through wormholes?
- Haorong Wu
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High School Sagnac effect for matter beams
- alexandrinushka
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Undergrad Is the Killer Crate Paradox Resolved?
- Gamma Anon
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Undergrad Does the Doppler shift argument resolve the twin paradox?
- Kairos
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Undergrad How Can Outward Normal Vector Point Inwards?
- GR191511
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Undergrad Einstein Definition of Simultaneity for Langevin Observers
- cianfa72
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Undergrad Could extraterrestrial signals be on frequencies we can't detect?
- Spockishere
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Undergrad The Units of the Cosmological Constant: eV^2
- Safinaz
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Undergrad Simulating GR: Worth the Effort?
- accdd
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