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Undergrad Do gravitational waves have different frequencies?
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Graduate Example of Unsymmetrical Metric: 2D Solutions
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Undergrad Is Einstein's Theory of Relativity Flawed?
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Graduate Energy & Momentum: The Effects of Photons on Stars
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Graduate Understanding GR Better: Metric Spaces & Differential Geometry Courses
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Graduate Understand 'One Form' Vector & Covariant - Relativity Demystified
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Graduate Do all observers agree on gravitational mass?
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Undergrad Understanding Gravity: Properties & Effects
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Graduate Is Relativistic Mass Consistent in Inelastic Collisions?
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Graduate How long does a ray of light travel for based on ITS time scale
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Graduate Is the Proof of E=mc² Valid for Accelerating Objects in Special Relativity?
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Graduate Green's function for Klein-Gordno equation in curved spacetime
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Graduate Correction term to Newtons gravitation law
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Graduate What kind of 'rotation' is the Gaililean transformation?
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Graduate Can Total Energy Be Less Than Rest Energy in Special Relativity?
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Graduate Is Proper Time Contraction Valid for Accelerated Watches?
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Undergrad Relative Velocity of two particles
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Graduate Is the distance relative also?
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Graduate Distnace between points and isometric mapping
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Graduate Does mass increase in SR mean higher gravity in GR?
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Undergrad If you were out in space, motionless
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Graduate Can a Slower Spacecraft Overtake a Faster One in Relativistic Travel?
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Graduate Why is speed of light constant?
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Graduate Would it Feel as if Time Stopped If I Became Light?
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Undergrad Time Dilation: How Can a Watch Tick Slower?
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Graduate Does time obey the inverse square law?
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Graduate Extrinsic properties of the curved space
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Graduate Lorentz transformation as a higher dimensional rotation
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Graduate Lorentz boost and equivalence with 3d hyperbolic rotations
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Graduate Spacetime proven or is the Graviton still alive?
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Undergrad What's it like if I were standing on earth's axis?
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Graduate Spaceship flying towards earth at relativistic speeds?
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Graduate Membrane Theory: Questions & Ideas Explored
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High School What is E=mc² What is it used for?
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Undergrad Scenario allowing a signal to travel at superluminous speeds?
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Graduate Gravity and acceleration near to the speed of light
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High School Sorry if this is too basic but we've all got to start somewhere
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Undergrad What exactly is Einstein's famous E = MC^2
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Graduate What is the equation that determines the speed of light "c"?
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Graduate Why do these two terms cancel in the Riemann-Christoffel tensor?
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High School General Relativity & Newton's Gravity - the fit?
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Graduate What does observer B see in the train thought experiment?
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Graduate Lorentz Transformation: R_2=R_1^{-1}?
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Graduate Cosmological expansion question
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Graduate BRS: Using Maxima for gtr computations
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High School How to describe the 4th dimension?
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Graduate Can Time Move Faster in Low Gravity Fields?
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Graduate Divergence of curvature scalars * metric
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Graduate Normalization of 4-velocity in general relativity
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Graduate Why no privlidged reference frame?
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Graduate Diagonalizing Rank 2 Symmetric Tensors in 4D Spacetime
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Graduate Partial derivatives as basis vectors?
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Graduate Why hyperbolic geometry in spacetime if it is flat?
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Graduate Mercury Precession & GR Calculation Impact
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Graduate Wave equation and Galilean Transformation
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Undergrad Why is E=pc with Light's Zero Rest Mass?
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Graduate Is a Curve Timelike, Spacelike, or Null?
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High School What Does Relative Really Mean and How Is It Used?
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Graduate What is the Composition of Spacetime?
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Graduate Other universes vs Hawking radiation
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Graduate Lorentz Boost Help: Why Use Hyperbolic Functions?
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Graduate Warp Space Travel: Is the Light Always Ahead?
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Graduate Gravity & Charge: Explained by Maxwell's Eqs?
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Undergrad Do All Wavelengths of the EM Spectrum Have Photons?
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Graduate Is Simultaneity Absolute or Relative in Einstein's Theory of Relativity?
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Graduate Gravitational redshift equation
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Graduate Energy into matter conversion possible?
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Graduate Testing the Equivalence Principle with Spectral Anisotropies
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Graduate Unifying Gravity and Electromagnetism: Refuting Einstein's Attempts
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Graduate General Relativity Revisited (What if gravity actully is a force?)
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Graduate Accelerating frames and black holes
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High School Explaining Time Dilation: A Simple Guide
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Graduate Diffeomorphism invariance of metric determinant
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Graduate Cosmological Redshift: Why Does k Remain the Same?
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Graduate Spinning Super Fluids: Reach Relativistic Speeds?
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Graduate Equivalent Trajectories in Relativity: Observer Effects
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Graduate Vectors in Special Relativity
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Graduate What is the four-momentum of a photon and its associated four-velocity?
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Graduate How does General Relativity explain the orbit of a planet around a star?
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Graduate Rod shortening - physical reality?
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Graduate Is the Time Coordinate Timelike or Spacelike?
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Graduate Is D'Inverno's Equation (11.38) Correctly Integrated?
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Graduate Deriving Ernst's Equation for Complex Metrics
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Graduate Twin paradox and length contraction
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Undergrad Time dilation in relation to earth time
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Graduate Can GR Explain the Expansion of the Universe Through Curvature of Spacetime?
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Graduate Is Spacetime Like Whales Displacing Water in an Ocean?
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Graduate Can Time Travel Reveal Tasks Before Completion?
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Graduate Simultaneity & seeing the same event multiple times.
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Graduate Clarifying the relativity theory
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Graduate Would light reach the earth in this scenario?
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Graduate What Does the Right Hand Side of the Equation Refer To in OEMB Section 3?
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Undergrad Is the Speed of Light Really Constant in a Vacuum?
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Graduate Deriving the Schwarzschild metric just by using the equivalence principle
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Graduate Confused by variational principle
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Graduate Can gravity exist without mass?
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Graduate What is relativistic mass and rest mass
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Graduate Axis Alignment in Einstein's 1905 Paper: Symmetry Impact
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Graduate Metric outside a spherically symmetric source.
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Undergrad Understanding the Massless Photon
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