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Graduate Why Does Redshift Occur?; Other Factors That Cause Elongation Of Wavelength?
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Graduate Superluminal events which do not transmit information or energy
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Graduate Can Superluminal Speed Be Incorporated into Lorentz Transformations?
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Graduate Mechanism for Alcubierre engine?
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Undergrad Magnetic field from Van De Graff
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Graduate Relativistic effects on a body rotating at near c
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Graduate Relativistic Problem: Mr. C's Observation
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Graduate Proton falling into a Black hole?
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Graduate Calculating World Line for Least Proper Time: An Easy Question on Relativity
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Graduate Question about Killing vectors in the Kerr Metric
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Undergrad Understanding Mass and Energy in Special Relativity
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Graduate Problems with a complex stress-energy tensor
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Undergrad Can Time Be Infinite?
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Graduate Do Photons Influence Gravitational Fields?
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Graduate How Is The Relativity Of Simultaneity Consistent With Physics And Relativity
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Graduate What is the condition for a circular orbit?
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Graduate Exploring the Physicality of Metric Solutions in Einstein's Field Equation
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Graduate If time slows down as velocity approaches C
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Undergrad Do Gravity Waves Exist? Understanding the Mechanics of Gravity Waves
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Graduate Is the polarization of light relative?
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Graduate Rotation of coordinate system in minkowsky spacetime
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Graduate Controlled experiment with time.
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Graduate Maxwell's equations and relativity
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Undergrad What tests have been done to confirm the speed of gravity?
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Graduate Gravity: An Effect or a Force?
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High School Where did the gravity come from?
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Undergrad Why Can We Feel the Gravitational Field of a Black Hole?
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Graduate Time dilation plus constancy of light implies space is dilated?
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Graduate Scenario where time dilation seems to be paradoxal
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Graduate Calculating the speed of the earth
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Graduate Is body to body gravity scale independent?
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Graduate Hermitian Metric - Calculating Christoffel Symbols
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Graduate Can a photon be trapped and studied without observation?
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Graduate Falling into a super massive blackhold
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Graduate What is Frame Dragging and How Does a Black Hole's Rotation Affect Space?
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Graduate Space-time at the speed of light
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Graduate Does Force Transform Equally in All Force Laws Among Different Reference Frames?
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Graduate Length Contraction: Measuring Circumference of Moving Circle
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Graduate Lorentz Contraction Physical Reality
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Graduate Space-Time Dilemma: Explaining Earth & Eris Orbits
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Graduate Symbolic manipulation program required
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Graduate What causes time dilation in gravitational fields?
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Graduate What equations are affected by Lorentz Transformations
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Graduate Dimension of Fields in Physics: What is it?
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High School What is the difference between special and general theory ?
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Graduate Finkelstein's unidirectional membrane paper
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Graduate Is the Cosmological Constant Truly Constant?
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Undergrad PC cpu limitation ruining our movie promise
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Graduate Are the directions of charge flow (=current?) absolute?
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Graduate If already known the Action and unkown the Metric, how to get geodesic equation?
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Graduate De Sitter Relativity and its Relation to Special and General Relativity
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Graduate Fluid element, conceptual questions
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Graduate Why Does Matter Cause Space to Warp?
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Graduate Killing vectors in KS coordinates
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Graduate Schutz 4.5, p. 100: A differential equation
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Undergrad Mass and Light: Is There a Connection?
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Graduate Why Is Gravity Viewed as Spacetime Distortion Rather Than a Force?
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Graduate Questions about light speed, time, and dimensions.
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Graduate Conservation Law: Invariance Under Translation & Understanding
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Graduate Would gravitational time dilation prevent Singularity in a black hole?
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Graduate Effects of Gravity and velocity on Time
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Graduate The Relativistic Hookean Spring: A Lorentz-Covariant Force
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Graduate General Relativity math, Tangent vectors on manifolds
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Graduate Black Hole Event Horizon: Beyond Schwarzschild Radius?
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Undergrad What is the maximum speed attainable by particles and objects in space?
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Graduate Does size increase or decrease as mass approaches c?
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Graduate Comparing Ropes Released from Ships A and B in Relative Motion
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Graduate Can Space Tear? Examining the Elasticity of Space and Time
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Graduate Relativity of Simultaneity: A question about the train paradox
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Graduate Understanding Permeability of Space
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Graduate Curved Space-Time: Books & Research on Mass & Force Curve
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Graduate What happens when the rope goes off hook?
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Graduate Mass distribution of a black hole?
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Graduate What time does an observer see when watching a clock on a rotating circle?
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Graduate Has Anyone Solved Einstein's Unified Field Theory?
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Graduate Energy change of a photon when it bounces between two mirrors
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Graduate Why (-,+,+,+) and not (+,+,+,+)?
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Graduate Lorentz ether frame, Relativistic Mass, and Inertia
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Graduate Length Contraction of the Universe Surpassing Length of Moving Object?
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Graduate Please suggest some material for quick review of general relativity.
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Graduate Why Does the Divergence of aRab + bRgab Vanish at b = -1/2a?
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Graduate Is the Theory of Magnetism and Relativity Flawed?
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Graduate Special Relativity and direction of travel
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Graduate Complex metric solutions in GR
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Graduate Backround independence and the definition of distance
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Graduate SR pedagogy: energy-momentum and area in the x-t plane
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Graduate The Schwarzschild (Exterior) Solution
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Graduate Point Charges & Magnetism: Relativity's Role
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Graduate Electric field of charged black hole.
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Graduate Lorentz Transformations in general
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Graduate Are Photons Timeless? | Federico
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Graduate Equivalence Principle precision
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Undergrad Can the Energy in a Human Power the Entire Planet for a Week?
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Graduate Two Spheres, Two Humans: Who is Older?
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Graduate Time Dilation and Death: Understanding the Effects of Gravity on Aging
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Graduate Lorent's time transformation Feynman 15-6 simultaneity
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Graduate Calculational details of Hawking radiation
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Graduate Energy-momentum tensor and conservation of both energy and momentum
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Graduate What effect does the expanding universe have on spacetime?
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