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Graduate Velocity of particle waves in an object?
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Graduate Question: Can a boosted frame remove unwanted terms from a transformed metric?
- Mentz114
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Graduate Can causes and effects be simultaneous, and does entanglement show this?
- Atype*
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Graduate Canonical derivation of Landau-Lifshitz pseudotensor
- QZQZ
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Graduate E=mc^2 proof. Why use Newtonian kinetic energy?
- SamRoss
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Graduate Historical origin of energy momentum equation?
- SamRoss
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Undergrad Speed of light is constant because of doppler effect?
- linklink
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Graduate Whoosh - linear frame dragging papers?
- pervect
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Graduate How to obtain the transformation of Null Tetrad ?
- Karmerlo
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Graduate Gravitational Pseudotensor Requirements
- Mueiz
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Graduate Is Faster Than Light Travel Really Traveling Backwards In Time?
- byron178
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Graduate How is Weyl Tensor associated with tidal force ?
- yicong2011
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Undergrad Who Experiences 50 Light Years Differently: The Astronaut or Mission Control?
- Kkamann
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Graduate Why is there gravity at a distance?
- Khashishi
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Graduate Is Epstein's time-slowing explanation of gravity circular reasoning?
- CRichard
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Graduate Velocity of Light, for an Accelerating Observer
- Mike_Fontenot
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Graduate Charge and the Equivalence Principle
- GRDixon
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Graduate Observable universe radius compared to age in matter and vacuum dominated models
- bcrowell
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Graduate Gravitational Waves: Is Gravity a Force in GR?
- Mononoke
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Graduate Why does the timelike vector in an orthonormal tetrad have -1?
- Junjie
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Graduate Universality of Doppler shift for energy of any massless field
- bcrowell
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Graduate What Other Theories of Gravity Exist Beyond Relativity in Modern Physics?
- Jake Minneman
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Graduate Special Relativity: A or B Series of Time?
- cezalinho
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Graduate What happens when you go near the speed of light and there's stuff in the way?
- Negeng
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Graduate Why does light have constant speed if objects can exceed it?
- Rupe
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Graduate Why does spacecraft B's clock rate differ between reference frames A and C?
- Bjarne
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Graduate Is Rest Mass Conserved by the Conservation of Energy and Momentum?
- superg33k
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Graduate How does gravity travel through wormholes?
- FtlIsAwesome
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Graduate Mass Equation in SR: Determining Rest Mass of Moving Objects
- Arsenic&Lace
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Graduate Measurement Problem in Einstein's Relativity
- Varon
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Graduate Projectile fired from train at 0.9c: relativistic velocity addition
- mdergance3
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Graduate Why does special relativity apply to non-electromagnetic phenomena?
- danmay
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Graduate Is the intellect the absolute reference frame?
- ktoz
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Graduate The set of allowed trajectories in spacetime
- Demon117
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Graduate What is the ratio of radii for a black hole and steel ball in equilibrium?
- JohnBarlow
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Graduate Can I express stationary spacetime and static spacetime in this way?
- yicong2011
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Graduate Divergence theorem/ Surface integral
- vaibhavtewari
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Graduate Absolute parallelism in teleparallel gravity
- karlzr
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Graduate Does the chair's force create spacetime curvature in the train paradox?
- ZealScience
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Graduate Why does a light clock beam zig-zag despite constant light speed?
- Inducer
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Graduate What are valid Preferred Frames?
- Varon
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Graduate Covariant VS manifestly covariant
- superg33k
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Graduate Are points 3 and 5 of Einstein's gravity explanation correct?
- eggman89
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Graduate Does the equivalence principle apply when acceleration direction changes?
- Jorl17
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Graduate Does acceleration at 1g cause time dilation relative to Earth's clock?
- rede96
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Graduate Notation for basis of tangent space of manifold
- demonelite123
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Graduate How much time passes for a twin traveling at near light speed?
- SpY]
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Graduate Electromagnetic Interference in Einestien Field Equation
- Mueiz
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Undergrad How Long Would Earth React to the Sun's Instant Disappearance?
- SpY]
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Graduate Are Galaxies and Quasars Inertial Reference Frames in an Expanding Universe?
- ZealScience
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Graduate Does moving near light speed increase mass through Higgs collisions?
- nomisrosen
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Graduate Possible changes in the Law of Gravitation
- mishrashubham
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Graduate Derivation of Newton's Third Law (?)
- nonequilibrium
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Graduate Understand "Manifestly Covariant" in Relativity Notes
- Kalidor
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Graduate Is there an equation for how mass affects spacetime warping speed?
- Jake Minneman
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Graduate Gravity Acceleration through a Hole in Earth
- CutterMcCool
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Undergrad Inertial vs accelerating frame
- Rear Naked
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Graduate Stress-energy tensor in static cylindrical case
- ArthurB
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Graduate Relativistic optics, w/ acceleration
- ralqs
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Graduate How Does the Geometry of Space Affect Gravitational Wave Amplitude?
- Prairie
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Undergrad What does a zero stress-energy tensor indicate?
- Ashwin_Kumar
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Graduate Topology of Minkowski spacetime
- ConradDJ
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Graduate Can Special Relativity Explain Accelerating Reference Frames?
- ralqs
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Undergrad Age Difference in Space Travel: How Does it Happen?
- bodhi
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Graduate Does a charge gain energy in every frame when it is accelerated?
- kmarinas86
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Graduate Does More Mass Mean Slower Time Travel?
- aglo6509
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Graduate Solving a Calculation Problem - Basic Math/Stress Energy Tensor
- kalish
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Graduate Bowling ball rubber sheet analogy
- Naty1
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Graduate Anti-Gravity from Matter-AntiMatter Repulsion
- sanman
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Graduate Can you determine absolute motion?
- Physicist1231
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Graduate Can't we transfer information this way? Still faster than light?
- Vikrant94
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Graduate How does a satellite orbit in curved spacetime if it's not touching the curved fabric?
- TheJoninator
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Graduate What Happens to Photon Momentum When Light Travels Through Different Mediums?
- flyerpower
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Graduate Why does light bend around a massive object if spacetime bends inward?
- flyerpower
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Graduate Einstein's Theory of Special relativity
- Science Proff
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Graduate Age of Universe: Is There an Alternate Perception?
- Holland
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Graduate Is the Two Body Problem in GR Solvable Using Geodesics?
- PAllen
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Graduate Finding Lorentz Factor of a Point Particle in Curved Spacetime
- vaibhavtewari
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Graduate Wikipedia: using the four-velocity to understand time dilation (?)
- nonequilibrium
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Graduate Mathematical Operations of General Relativity
- GDavila
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Graduate Normalization of a delta function in curved spacetime
- jdstokes
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Graduate Clock ejected from accelerating twin accumulates time dilation paradox
- RelConfused
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What is the true nature of time?
- Parbat
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Undergrad Why does light travel perpendicular to the train in time dilation examples?
- tomz
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Graduate Room in Spaceship: Apparent Paradox?
- Superstring
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Undergrad Light emitting from an object moving near the speed of light.
- Addiction2Code
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Graduate Conservation Laws vs a Spinning 'Disk Brake'
- Q-reeus
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Graduate Are acceleration and gravity completely equivalent?
- damianpaz
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Graduate Large diffeomorphisms in general relativity
- tom.stoer
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Graduate Does the expanding universe contradict relativity?
- rede96
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Graduate What is the surprising result for c_hat according to an accelerating observer?
- Mike_Fontenot
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Graduate Will GR ever explain the flyby anomaly?
- kmarinas86
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Graduate Can 5D Wormholes Make Instant Global Shipping Possible?
- rodsika
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Graduate How Do Satellites Orbit Lagrange Points Without Mass?
- gregweymann
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Graduate How can both objects claim the other falls into a gravity field?
- hprog
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Graduate Determinism, Stokes' Theorem and Relativity
- Phrak
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Graduate Relativistic velocity addition: which formula to use?
- lavster
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Graduate Does a 0.9c observer appear to have increased relativistic mass?
- CGann
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Graduate How Does Relativity Affect Our Perception of Time and Space?
- stonehaven
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Graduate Does an electron moving along a geodesic radiate?
- jnorman
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