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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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In my book i think that on any planet if we can stay for 1 year then

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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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Graduate Light Bending: Comparison of Theories

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Graduate Is the speed of light a paradox?

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Graduate Inertial frame dependent on mass?

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Graduate Einstein's Field equations & quaternions / octonions

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Graduate A virtual pole vaulter in the relativistic barn

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Graduate Possible non-existence of black holes and consequences

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Graduate What is Expanding Horizon of a black hole?

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Graduate Can Traveling Faster Than Light Lead to Negative Time Travel?

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Graduate Gravitons vs Attraction Due to Curvature of Spacetime

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Undergrad Solid angle , never seen derivative

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High School Gravitational Field: Particle Generated Force

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Graduate Time-Dependent Lagrangians: Reference Work & Euler-Lagrange Equations

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Graduate Gravitational time dilation on cylinderical objects

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Graduate Traversable Wormholes: Overview and Questions

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Graduate Penrose-Terrell rotation and the 3 great special relativistic myths

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Graduate Godel's metric in cylindrical coordinates

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Graduate Special relativity/speed of light

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Graduate Do tidal forces mean the Equivalence Principle is BS?

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Graduate Curvature and Stress-Energy: Solving the Einstein Equation with Tensor Densities

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Graduate Schwarzschild radius and curvature

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Graduate Is the Speed of Light Truly the Ultimate Limit in the Universe?

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Graduate There is no Transverse Gravitatonal Redshift

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Graduate Electric field in curved spacetime

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Graduate Not sure about this coordinate definition

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Graduate Gravitational Radiation: Falling Objects into Black Holes

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Graduate What Happens to Gravitational Fields When Mass Converts to Energy?

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Graduate Does GR contradict Mach's principle?

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Undergrad Matter to Energy: Kinetic + Rest Mass?

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Graduate Space-Time Curvature: A New Perspective on Dark Matter?

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Graduate Rotation tensor and absolute time

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Graduate Space time reversal inside a black hole

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Graduate Lorentz transformed pressure for a rod with two masses at its ends

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Graduate In General Relativity, what would happen to the Earth the Sun disappeared?

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Graduate Higgs field at the event horizon

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Graduate Equivalence priciple, light bend

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High School Did David Hilbert beat Einstein to Relativity?

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Undergrad Did Lorentz or Einstein theoretically derive special relativity?

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