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Undergrad Looking for A.G. Walker's 1932 Fermi-Walker transport paper

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High School Does time dilation affect the de Broglie wavelength of a muon?

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High School What Does Hawking Mean by Negative Energy at the Big Bang?

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High School Can a mirror reflect parallel light rays in sync?

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Undergrad Are Kronecker delta with different index positions equivalent?

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High School Travel 7 Light Years at 50000km/s - How Long?

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Undergrad Is Time Dilation Just a Misunderstanding of Clock Errors?

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High School Time dilation on rotating disk from the clocks' perspective

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High School Can general relativity be interpreted as a varying ether?

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Graduate Christoffel symbols and curvature without a metric

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Undergrad Does energy in the electric field contribute to inertial mass?

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Undergrad Physical meaning of a spacelike geodesic

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Graduate Can a conformal flat metric be curved?

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Undergrad Radiate Single Charged Particle: Free Fall in Black Hole?

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Undergrad Distance Contraction: Is D or D*sqrt(1-(v/c)^2) Traveled?

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Insights Rindler motion in special relativity: hyperbolic trajectories

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Graduate Generalize Special Relativity for Flat Spacetime

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Undergrad Gravitoelectromagnetism: Why Equation Differs in Sources

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Graduate Affine Spaces and Vector Spaces

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High School Does gravitational time dilation accumulate on mountaintops over millions of years?

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High School Length, Time, and Velocity -- Which are fundamental quantities?

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Undergrad Effects of Supermassive Black Hole Merger on Nearby Bodies

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Undergrad Is acceleration an invariant in special relativity?

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Undergrad Superluminal laser dot on a screen observed by relativistic observer

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Undergrad Difference between proper time and coordinate time

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Undergrad Length contraction in General Relativity

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Graduate Why does Wald rewrite T^{acde}_b using two inverse metrics?

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High School Why are gravitons needed to explain gravitational attraction?

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Undergrad Spacetime Curvature via Triangle

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Undergrad How can metric components be defined as scalar products of basis vectors?

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High School Simple reasoning that the equivalence principle suggests curvature

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High School Build a Time Dilation Clock for 8th Grade Science Project

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Undergrad Wilbert Zweistein's Objection to Equivalence Principle

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Undergrad Tensor product of a 4-vector and tensor with shared indices

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Undergrad Can a Basis Vector be Lightlike?

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Undergrad Can time run backwards in an accelerating frame?

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High School Ride Gravitational Waves to Increase Speed?

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Graduate Proving $g(u,v)≠0$ with Linear Independence

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High School Does this thought experiment show that Space must be curved?

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Undergrad Relationship between Schwarzschild radius and event horizon

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Undergrad How does the Schwarzschild metric relate to particle absorption?

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Undergrad Why does the Rindler wedge seem timelike but the light cone spacelike?

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Undergrad Energy conditions and non-physical phenomena

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High School Do atoms stay bonded when an object crosses a black hole's event horizon?

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High School Why is the BH Information Paradox Called a Paradox?

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Graduate Magnetic field from the electromagnetic field tensor in Wald (4.2.22)

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High School How Can We Observe Black Holes Growing?

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Undergrad Newtonian expansion model vs GR explanation of cosmic redshift

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High School Rotation of Galaxies: Mass vs Dark Matter?

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High School Can another force dependent on stress-energy be weaker than gravity?

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Graduate Why Gullstrand-Painlevé and Lemaître coordinates look different

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Undergrad Problem sets for practical general relativity calculations

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Undergrad Is there really nothing faster than light?

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High School Energy Conservation w/ Charged Battery Time Travel

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Undergrad Measuring distance to the event horizon with a rigid ruler

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Undergrad What is the Meaning of Lagrangian in Special Relativity?

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Graduate Anti-self Dual Part (2,2) Riemann Curvature Tensor

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High School Gravitational Lensing: Magnification of Galaxies

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Undergrad Applying Reisenbach Transf. to EM Wave in Microwave Oven

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Undergrad Measuring light speed in curved spacetime near a Schwarzschild black hole

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Undergrad Detecting gravitomagnetic deflection of a laser through a spinning cylinder

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Undergrad Time Travel in Newtonian Spacetime: Is it Possible?

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Undergrad Why does the accelerated traveler's clock show less elapsed time than Earth's?

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High School Can Accelerate at Constant g in Own FoR?

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Undergrad Why are perfect fluids needed in general relativity?

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High School Why is the relative speed of two cars less in Lorentz than Galilean transforms?

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Undergrad How Does Time Dilation Affect the Twin Paradox in Special Relativity?

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Undergrad Does constant velocity motion in relativity prevent radiation emission?

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Undergrad Isotropy of the speed of light

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Undergrad General Relativity: Is it Local?

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Undergrad Deriving Special Relativity from Particle Indistinguishability

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Undergrad Gravitational vs. Electromagnetic Waves: What's the Difference?

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High School How much energy to create a 1000 kg artificial black hole?

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High School Robert Wald's General Relativity: Energy-Momentum Relation

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Undergrad Proof of Special Relativity w/ Michelson–Morley Experiment

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Graduate Alcubierre Metric: York Time Cause and Effect

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Undergrad Light speed independent of source

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Undergrad Understand Poynting Density of Flow of Energy w/Weak Physics Background

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High School Can gravitational waves have wavelengths as large as the solar system?

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Graduate Does Spacetime Absorb Energy in General Relativity?

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Graduate MTW Gravitation: Exercise 5.1 | Beginner GR Stress-Energy Tensor Symmetry

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Undergrad Why distinguish relative motion from relative acceleration in the twin paradox

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Undergrad Reichenbach Synchronisation: Proving i=r

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Undergrad A paradox for two moving protons?

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Graduate Local phase invariance of complex scalar field in curved spacetime

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High School Newton's third law for gravity in general relativity

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Undergrad About global inertial frames in GR

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High School What conditions would create a wormhole in general relativity?

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High School Can Push Travel Faster Than Light?

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Undergrad Gravity on the Moon vs. on the spinning Earth

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High School Do accelerated and gravitational clocks slow at the same rate?

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Undergrad Why does a body at rest move if Gravity is not a force?

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High School Gravitational Force acting on a massless body

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Undergrad Rocket landing in cylinder: length contraction paradox

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Undergrad Why does -c²t² + x² approach 0 as β → 1 in Lorentz transformations?

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Undergrad Is general relativity fundamental or an effective theory?

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High School A difficulty with the equivalence of all inertial reference frames

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High School Is the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy formula based on logarithm base 2?

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Graduate Energy-Momentum Tensor for 2-Body Problem: Approach

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High School Can You Become a Black Hole from Approaching Light Speed?

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