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Undergrad Increase of mass and legth contracts with speed?
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Graduate The experience of the infalling body of an EH
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Graduate A tachyon is a hypothesized particle that has imaginary mass
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Graduate What would actually be observed during Lorentz contraction?
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Graduate Solving Tensor Confusion: Electromagnetic Field Tensor
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Undergrad Einsteins Vs Newtonian Solution
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Graduate Does GR imply small Lorentz violations in practice?
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Graduate Gravity effect on observed speed of light
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Graduate If correct: a catastrophe in the Lorentz transformation
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Graduate SR and QED: How Particles Interact with Time Dilation
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Graduate Reissner- Nordstrom metric- weak energy condition
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High School Michelson–Morley experiment: Did it disprove the existence of ether?
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Undergrad Help understanding a relativity train
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Graduate Why does General Relativity break-down at Plank Temperature?
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Graduate Searching for Lecture Notes on Lie Groups from Physics Course
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Graduate Perihelion precession of Mercury
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Graduate Expansion, redshift, energy loss
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Undergrad Understanding Proper Time in Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity
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Graduate Why Are the Terms Squared in the Lorentz Transformation?
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Graduate Reconciling Energy Losses on Fast Moving Batteries
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Graduate Where can I find a covariant approach to Poisson brackets?
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Graduate Constatly accelerating spacecraft
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Graduate Whose Clock Slows Down in Relativity?
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Graduate Is Einstein synchronization trivially true?
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Graduate Freely Floating Observer Crosses Event Horizon
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Graduate Faster than the speed of light during acceleration?
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Graduate Calculating LHC Forces on a Proton
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Graduate Does light itself bend spacetime?
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Undergrad Photon Speed in a Wave: How Does It Work?
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Graduate What are the best lines of reasoning for why nothing can travel faster than c
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Graduate Understanding Time Dilation and Its Implications for Time Travel
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Graduate Even light would take an infinite time
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Graduate Can Light Speed Ever Be Reached in the Universe?
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Graduate Affine parameter Schwazschild
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Graduate 2m car near lightspeed fall into 1m hole?
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High School I just wanted to know what exactly is a wormhole?
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Graduate Christoffel symbols vanishing on a curve
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Graduate Reissner-Nordström metric for magnetic fields
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Graduate Solving Twin Paradox: Earth's Motion in Astronaut's Frame
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Undergrad Small problem with getting to E=mc^2
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Graduate Covariant derivative of an anti-symmetric tensor
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Graduate Looking to understand time dilation
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Graduate What happens if an Alcubierre warp drive fails?
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Graduate Equivalence Principle: Questioning Inertia & Gravity
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Graduate Speed Limit of causal influence
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Graduate Why Are Electric Field Lines Straight Around Relativistic Electrons?
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Undergrad From what frame of reference does the Earth orbit the sun?
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Graduate Does the Relativistic Speed of Soap Bubbles Affect Their Shape?
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Graduate Timelike and lightlike/null vectors
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Graduate Confusion wiht Curvature Tensor
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High School Faster than the speed of light
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Graduate What is the formula for gravitational redshift and its time derivative?
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Graduate How does light bend under gravitational field(gravitational force), why?
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Graduate Tachyon Properties: Time, Length & Special Relativity
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Graduate Einstein's Field Equations and Poisson's Equation
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Graduate Relativity of simultaneity and cosmology
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Graduate Calculating Warp Speeds and Travel Times Using Alcubierre Warp Drive
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Graduate Resolving the Clock Paradox: The Hafele and Keating Experiment
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Graduate Killing Vector Solutions for General Relativity Metric | Self-Study Tips
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Graduate Comparing Forces in Different Reference Frames: Impact on Time and Magnitude
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Graduate Mass addition due to gravitational acceleration
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Graduate Interpreting Gullstrand-Painlevé Coordinates
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Graduate Solving Light Clock Question: Calculations for a Relativistic Light Clock
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Graduate Could gravity be described as distance compression?
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Undergrad Mass Motion & Time: Acceleration & Momentum Impact on Measurable Time
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Undergrad Scalar Curvature, R, for Dummies
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Undergrad A noob asking about relativistic kinetic energy.
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Graduate Time Dilation or Mass Dilation
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Graduate I can't understand time dilation in absence of absolute motion.
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Graduate How Does the Principle of Equivalence Lead to Gravity Curving Space?
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Graduate Manipulating Space-Time with Lasers
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Graduate Relativity of Simultaneity and wave/particle duality.
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Graduate General relativity matter warps space
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Graduate Is spacetime a matter?how can this matter be detected?
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Graduate Why is Congruency Important in Special Relativity?
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Graduate Does empty space move? What are the laws that govern its motion?
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Graduate Can Warp Drive Exceed the Speed of Light?
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Graduate On the interpretation of a spacetime diagram
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Graduate Maxwell's equations in general relativity
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Graduate Length contraction (no calculations)
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Graduate Does a photon have a frame of reference?
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Graduate Circular Orbits in SR: Force, mv^2/r, L Conservation
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Graduate Explanation of tidal wave formation in sea due toe gravitaion force of moon
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Graduate Explore the Kaluza-Klein Model: Advantages & Drawbacks
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Graduate Gravity - an accelerating frame paradox
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Graduate Time Dilation Paradox: Interstellar Race
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Undergrad Purpose of Michelson-Morley Experiment?
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Graduate Why do singularities mean that GR breaks down?
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Undergrad Speed of Light - Highest Possible Speed?
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Graduate Does a proton age differently when accelerated at high speeds?
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Graduate Understanding Special Relativity Through Polar Coordinates
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Graduate Gravitomagnetism & Gravitational Waves
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Graduate Travel in space to Alpha Centuri
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Graduate Does a Spherical Hollow Shell Represent a New Type of Gravitational Horizon?
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Graduate Understanding SR and Electric Fields in the Principle of Relativity
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Graduate Contradiction in relative simultaneity
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Graduate How do photons split into electrons and positrons?
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Graduate Why is (ct)^2 negative in 4-dimensional space-time?
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Graduate Does gravity affect gravity the way gravity affects time?
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Graduate Strange character of space-time
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