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Graduate Space Travel: SR Questions Explored
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Graduate Contradiction in Relativistic Simultaneity in Taylor-Wheeler Spacetime Physics?
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Undergrad The world revolves around a person
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Undergrad What is the best frame of reference?
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Undergrad Does light really travel in same frame of reference
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Graduate The Big Bang singularity - does it have infinite energy?
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Graduate Mass of Earth/Sun: Comparing in Different Frames
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Graduate Help Needed: Understanding Equation No. 3 in an Article
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Graduate Black Hole time dilation + biological paradox
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Graduate On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies
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High School Time Dilation: Explaining the Basics for a Sci-Fi Story
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Graduate Solve Problems in General Relativity: Books & Websites
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Graduate What Are Some Physically Relevant Higher-Order Lagrangian Systems?
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Graduate Solving for g_φφ=0 in charged/rotating BHs
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Graduate Do Black Holes Grow? Investigating the Lifecycle of a Galaxy
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Graduate Evidence for preferred frames?
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Graduate GR: "Proper Distance" Meaning and Usage
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Graduate What happens in this scenario? (Poll)
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High School Confused about moveing through time
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Graduate Some help understanding the metric tensor
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Undergrad Impossibility of Backwards Time Travel
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Graduate Are there any energy change of photon in different frame?
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Graduate Is Faster Than Light Travel Possible Through Kinetic Energy?
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Graduate Question about Big Bang and Black Holes
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Undergrad Near Light Speed Travel & Time Dilation I don't get it.
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Thread on Lorentz Invariance Violation
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Graduate Is light bound to travel at C?
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Graduate Vector Addition in Curved Space: Invariance?
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Graduate Time dilation formula for constant acceleration on a circular path
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Graduate Gravity as an emergent phenomenon
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Graduate Two dimensional anti de Sitter space without cosmological constant?
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Graduate Random General Relativity conceptual questions
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Graduate Tolman versus Recami: tachyons
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Graduate Actual earth measurement contradicts measurement predicted by special relativity
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Undergrad Gravitational Field Strength and Acceleration on Mars
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Graduate What Is the Best Way to Understand General Relativity?
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Graduate Is a Galilean Universe Truly Separate from Space-Time Concepts?
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Graduate What would happen if an object reached the speed of light?
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Undergrad Newton's Third Law, Speed of Light, and Relativity question
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Undergrad Trying to understand Relativity
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Graduate Gravity and mass in General Relativity
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Graduate Yet another Twin Paradox thread
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Graduate Special relativity:Reality or measurment error(?
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Graduate Rotation of a vertical cylinder in a gravitational field
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Graduate I don't understand the result of my Earth-muon calculations
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Graduate What are the Three Sources of Red-Shift in Astronomical Observations?
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Graduate Linearity of Lorentz transformations
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High School Time Dilation & Stem Cell Therapy: Twin A vs Twin B
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Graduate Pedagogically direct demonstrations of SR and GR
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Graduate Why perihelion shift and not aphelion?
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Graduate Tension in slowly rotating cylinder in gravity
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Graduate Biologist Trying to do Physics - Badly
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Graduate Why does an infalling observer not see Hawking radiation?
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High School A Time Machine may be on the way
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Graduate Contradiction in Taylor-Wheeler's example of spacetime invariance
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Graduate The Plane Electromagnetic Wave in Vacuum
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Graduate Length contraction, light speed and a bomb
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Graduate Time Dilation in Rotating Bodies: Effects?
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Graduate Is it possible to decrease space-time density?
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Graduate General metric with zero riemann tensor
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Undergrad Is There a Solution for Installing GRTensorII on Mac OS X?
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Graduate Infinite brightness in the singularity?
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Graduate Relativistically Invariant Tensors
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Graduate Math: How to Convert Energy in Mass Units to Joules?
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High School Travelling at speed of light and looking in the mirror
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Graduate Limits of Frame Dragging: Can Objects Create Their Own Event Horizons?
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Graduate What Do the Einstein Field Equations Reveal About Gravity in Expanding Space?
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Undergrad How did Einstein come to the conclusion
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Graduate Layman's question about the application of the curvature to space
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Graduate Consequences of the Equivalence Principle
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Graduate Is there a connection between covariance, invariance, and dark matter?
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Graduate Maxwell's Eqns for Inertial Sys on Minkowski Space: Rindler (1977)
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Graduate Hawking Radiation: Does it Really Shrink Black Holes?
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Graduate ADM Mass for a diagonal metric
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Graduate Is Time Travel Possible with Our Current Understanding of Space and Time?
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Graduate Is Time Travel Possible According to General Relativity?
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Graduate Exploring Relativistic Spinning Wheels: Radius & Simultaneity Paradoxes
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Graduate Conditions for spacetime to have flat spatial slices
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Undergrad Special relativity adandons Maxwell's mechanical interpretation of EM?
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Graduate Can We Really Travel at Light Speed Without Feeling It?
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Graduate The form of the lorentz transformations
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Graduate A few questions about the Einstein field equations?
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Graduate How does movement through solid objects work?
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Graduate Why Two Defs of Four-Momentum?
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Graduate When does Hawking radiation begin?
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Graduate What are the units of vectors and dual vectors?
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Graduate Is relativistic mass not an appropriate concept?
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Undergrad Tapping a message over lightyears in an instant?
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Graduate Understanding the Nature of Gravity: Debunking the Need for Gravitons
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Graduate D'alembertian of lorentz transformation matrix
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Graduate Age-Changes Caused By Instantaneous Velocity-Changes
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Graduate Dirac brackets and gauge in special relativity.
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Graduate What Happens to Communication at Light Speed?
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Graduate I'm currently reading DF Lawden's book Introduction to Tensor
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Graduate Where is gravitational energy stored?
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Graduate Mathematical explanation of maximum speed limit c'
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Graduate Doppler effect and the twin paradox
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Graduate Question about length contraction
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Graduate Is Time Defined Differently for Each Observer?
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Graduate Mass equivalence and instantaneous gravitational field
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