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Undergrad Can Light Really Be Slowed to 38 mph?
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Undergrad Has General relativity been proven wrong ?
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Graduate Speed of Light Dilemma: Einstein's Formula E=MC^2 Explained
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Graduate Relativistic Mass and Electrons vs. Muons
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Graduate Transitivity condition for Einstein synchronization and the one-way light speed
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Graduate Tensor Contraction: Learn by Examples & Repetition
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Graduate Measuring procedure for Fermi Normal coordinates
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Graduate Fermi Normal coordinates for an infalling observer
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Graduate Empirical test of Einstein's famous goof
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Graduate Varitaion on the twin paradox that just doesnt work out for me
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Graduate Simultaneity for entangled particles
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Graduate Speed of light relative to what?
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Graduate Is clock become slower or faster
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Graduate Can Space Appear Curved Due to Forces Similar to Magnetism?
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Graduate Dynamics of the Slowly Accelerated Electron from Einstein's original SR paper
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Graduate A descriptive picture of radar simultaneity
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Graduate Expression of Gravitational Potential in GR
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Graduate Infinite Past and Future: Surprising Consequences of Time Dilation
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High School Major difference of Inertial and non-inertial frame of reference ?
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Graduate Surpassing the speed of light?
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Graduate Will two clocks be synchronized after a period of time dialation?
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Graduate Centrifugal Forces and Black Holes
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Graduate Paradox within the twin paradox
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Graduate Sergei Winitzki's GR Book: Examining Errors in Conformal Transformations
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Graduate Proposal for measurement of Lens Thirring effect
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Graduate What would reality be like without SR?
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Graduate Gravity curvature and graviton
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Graduate Do you know how to derive the General Theory of Relativity?
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Graduate How does light from the past ever reach me?
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Graduate Massless Klein-Gordon equation not conformally invariant?
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Graduate Understanding the Equality in Equation 2.96: Volume Element as n-Form?
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Graduate Can general relativity explain the difference in tides between land and sea?
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Undergrad Time Travel Proposal: Observing Objects from the Past?
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Graduate What is the measurement of an angle in special relativity?
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Graduate Does gravitational mass change during collapse?
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Graduate Chern-Simons Form Explained: General Relativity
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Graduate Is the Boltzmann Equation in GR Truly Coordinate Independent?
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Graduate What Is the Effect of Length Contraction on Time Dilation in Relativity?
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Graduate How Does Light Behave in a Moving Light Clock?
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Graduate Spacetime and limit c->infinity
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Graduate Understanding Einstein Field Equations Through Tensor Calculus
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Graduate SR length contraction question
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Graduate General Relativity Effective Potentials
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Graduate Conceptualizing travel toward a light source
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Graduate Reference that explains general relativity
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Graduate Einstein needs to show his work
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Graduate Can proper time be calculated for varying velocity along a worldline?
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Graduate Acceleration of a circulatory particle
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Graduate Coordinate singularities and coordinate transformations
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Graduate How Do You Model an Apple Falling into a Black Hole Using Integral Calculus?
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Graduate Third derivative of quadrupole moment as source of radiation
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Graduate Proof for E=mc^2: Questions Answered
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Graduate Event horizon: light delay and grav. time dilation
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Graduate Question from Weinberg's cosmology text
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Graduate The Theory of the Transverse Doppler Effect
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Graduate Lorentz factor for slow speeds
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Possible Proof of Time Travel: Is it Physically Possible?
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Graduate Relativity and the arrow of time
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Undergrad Comparing Lorentz and Einstein: Questions Answered
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Graduate Why Do Some Theories Suggest Speeds Faster Than Light?
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Graduate Shear stress in Energy-momentum Stress Tensor
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Undergrad Gravity /electromagnetism /measuring
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Graduate The Pioneer Anomaly and Vacuum Energy
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Graduate What causes the warping of space-time?
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High School Why faster than light is impossible?
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Graduate Lorentz invariance and General invariance
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Graduate Orbit of Moons & Shapes of Planets due to Warped spacetime
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Graduate What is the different between Minkowski Space an Semi Riemann Space?
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Graduate Dimensions and information content
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Undergrad Can wormholes make you travel faster then c
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Undergrad Why Can't Anything Exceed the Speed of Light?
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Graduate Going crazy: can someone spot the error in this simple derivation?
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Graduate How Do Conformal Maps Preserve Angles in Different Geometric Contexts?
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Graduate Existence of quasi-euclidean spacelike hypersurfaces?
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Graduate Eddington Finkelstein coordinates in the Schwarzschild spacetime
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Graduate What are valid coordinate transforms (diffeomorphisms)?
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Graduate Velocity addition ain't what it used to be
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Graduate Can wormholes be used for faster-than-light travel?
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Graduate Events in different reference frames
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Graduate Covariant derivative and geometry of tensors
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High School Is It Possible to Chase Yourself Around the World?
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Graduate An issue I'm having with time dilation and other effects of speed
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Graduate Ricci tensor: symmetric or not?
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High School Is Spacetime Everywhere and Does it Stack Infinitely?
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Graduate Solving the Time Dilation Paradox - Special Relativity Explained
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Graduate Local Minkowski space and free falling
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Graduate Choice of scaling function for Penrose diagrams
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Graduate Lorentz transformations of the angular momentum
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Graduate Turning the Earth-Sun Pencil: Let's Test the Speed of Light
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Graduate Can anything truly travel at lightspeed through both space and time?
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Graduate What is the Lorentz-invariant metric for space-time in special relativity?
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Graduate Expressing 4-potential as a Fourier integral
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Undergrad How do we know that gravity results from mass?
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Graduate Upper- and lower-index Levi-Civita tensor/symbol
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Graduate Triangle GR thought experiment
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Graduate Spin of the Photon: Relativity and Angular Momentum
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Graduate What Are the Key Resources for Understanding Wormholes and White Holes?
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Graduate Definition of black hole for the purposes of no-hair theorems?
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Graduate Schwarzschild metric in 3-dimensional space-time
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