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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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Graduate No real purpose in space-time?
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Graduate Time dilation and twins paradox
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Graduate Graviton: Energy, Impulse, Frequency & Quantum
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Graduate Light bent in gravitational field
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Graduate Blackhole mass = Hawking temperature x Entropy?
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Undergrad What exactly is relativistic mass?
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Graduate Simultaneity question – is sequence absolute?
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Graduate Weyl Tensor Notation in Dimension 4
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Graduate How Can Massless Photons Be Affected by Gravity in Black Holes?
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Graduate My paradox, dead or not according to different observers
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Graduate Can time dialation really just be the slowdown of physical processes?
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Graduate Curvature of space/time question/problem
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Undergrad How would a trampoline solve the twin paradox in relativity?
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Graduate Parallel velocity hydrogen/antihydrogen annihilation at relativistic speeds.
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Graduate Age divergence of Identical accelerating twins
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Graduate Clocks & Curvature: How Space-Time Affects Timekeeping
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Graduate How could strange shapes affect space-time?
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Graduate Confusion with lower/raising indices
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Undergrad Question about energy in C-O-M frame and Lab frame.
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Graduate Derivation of the Lorentz Transformations
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Graduate Schwarzschild Metric - Need help understanding
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Graduate Non inertial frame: Speed of light
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Graduate Light Clock Experiment - questions from a newbie?
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Graduate Stress energy tensor for a swarm of particles ( in MTW )
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Undergrad Gravitational Acceleration in Homogeneous Fields
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Graduate Approximate Space Physics for Online Game
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Graduate How Does Matter Cause Space to Curve?
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Graduate Variation of cosmological constant with time
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Graduate Special theory of relativity question
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Graduate Your photonic rocket reaches planet A, 10 light-years away in 10 years.
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High School Can We Really See the Past Through Science?
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Graduate Significance of gauge transformation any experts?
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Graduate Lorentz factor and Bondi factor
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Undergrad Does Light Reach Objects Moving at High Speeds?
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Graduate Struggling with MTW Exercises: Any Hints for Exercise 3.18 and 5.1?
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Graduate Einstein field equations
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