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Graduate Rocket ship speed and relativity
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Graduate Is GPS the only practical application of General Relativity?
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Graduate Basis vectors under a Lorentz transformation
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Graduate Special theory theory oe relativity
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Graduate Is Gravity Really an Entropic Force?
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Graduate What is the Frequency of the Photon at the End of the Platform?
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Graduate Introductory material - GR Hamiltonian Treatment
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Graduate Accurate Results of General Theory of Relativity
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Graduate Frame-Jumping & Incorrect Gamma Derivations Aplenty
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Undergrad Lorentz Transformation (simplified)
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Graduate Is/are there any invariant OBJECTS in relativistic? Is there a substratum?
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Graduate Can objects move faster than the speed of light in certain reference frames?
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Undergrad Can You See Humans Glow on the Dark Side of Earth from a Fast Rocket?
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Graduate Is Einstein's Principle of Relativity Compatible with Galilean Transformations?
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Undergrad What is the Minimum Speed in Relativity?
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Graduate Does the Relativity of Simultaneity Depend on the Axis Along Which Events Occur?
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Graduate Light Traveling in Opposite Directions
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Graduate Linear size of everything doublles overnight
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Graduate Can light be redshifted by gravitational fields?
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Graduate Special Relativity - Transformations and Equivalence Principle
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Graduate How to Determine Velocity in Special Relativity
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Graduate Four-Momentum: Schutz's Extra Postulate?
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Graduate The Physical Meaning of gravitational time dilation
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Graduate Can Gravity Bend Time in the Opposite Direction?
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Graduate Elaborating on stress-energy tensor
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Graduate Is it possible for warp nacelles to warp space without the use of a warp bubble?
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Graduate Understanding the Invariance of the Speed of Light: A Question on Relativity
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Graduate Event horizon of elementary particles
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Graduate Electron Repulsion: Explaining Electron-Electron Repulsion
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Undergrad Why do objects appear shorter and clocks run slower in space stations?
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Graduate Can spacetime be created ? if yes how if not why ?
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Undergrad Why must we travel through something at C?
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Graduate Can We Really Build a Time Machine with Today's Technology?
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Graduate Can Spinning the Earth Faster Reduce Gravity?
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Graduate Is There a Basic Element That Connects All Matter and Energy in the Universe?
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Graduate Gravitational field of photons
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Graduate Is gravitational attraction finite?
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Graduate Energy in different references
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Graduate Galileo and Lorentz transformation
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Graduate Are Light Cones and Black Hole Event Horizons the Same?
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High School Why there are gravitation at all
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Graduate What Are the Different Perspectives on the Nature of Time?
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Graduate Stationary below the event horizon?
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Graduate The Physical Meaning of the Relatvity of Simultaneity
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Graduate Time Dilation/Gravitational Theories Needed for Short Film
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Graduate Space Time Curvature Question.
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Graduate Changes in planet orbits as a star (eg. the Sun) decreases is mass.
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The Meaning of Living in 3 Dimensions?
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Undergrad Can molecules exist in other dimensions?
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Undergrad Understanding the Speed of Light: A Thought Experiment
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Graduate Christoffel symbol+covariant derivative+parallel transport
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Graduate Black Holes are Singularitiesor vice versa?
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Undergrad If light has no mass, how can it have energy according to e=mc2?
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Graduate Why does Einstein say that a clock slows when it is moving?
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Graduate Bending of light and the travel distance
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Graduate How do we know nothing can go faster than c and why?
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Graduate Is Relativistic Mass Plausible?
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Graduate Calculating Time dilation in Accelerated systems
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Graduate Gravitational force vs. relativity
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Graduate Doesn't relativity define time as an illusion?
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Graduate Unraveling the Twin Paradox: Three Inertia Frames in a Race Against Time
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Graduate Can Gravitons Escape Black Holes?
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Graduate Geodesics Around Black Holes: Do They Form Closed Loops?
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Graduate Clocks running slower is an illusion
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Graduate Can an Infinitely Long Rod Spinning at Light Speed Exhibit Relativistic Effects?
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Graduate Galilean Transformations and Relativistic Physiology
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Graduate Frame of references in time dilation
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Graduate Another paradox from the force transformation laws?
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Graduate How Do Planck Scale Dimensions Define Universal Limits?
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Graduate Interpreting Stress-Energy Tensor in General Relativity
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Undergrad History & Timewarp: Does Time Change Earth's History?
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Graduate Relativity and time (twin paradox)
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Graduate Speed of light vs speed of time
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Graduate Question about Einstein's Original E=mc^2 derivation
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Graduate Why Does the Traveling Twin's Clock Show Less Time in the Twin Paradox?
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Undergrad Cutoff Point for Relativistic Effects
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Graduate Crossing the Event Horizon of a Black Hole
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Graduate Telling if a reference frame is moving or at rest
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Graduate Superluminous Objects and Black Holes
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Graduate Alcubierre drive has trouble with quantum effects
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Graduate Can Black Holes Exist? Physics Community Viewpoints
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Graduate Mobile communication with electromagnetic waves and theory of relativity
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Graduate Do particles without a rest mass bend spacetime?
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Graduate Detecting Gravity Waves Through Matter-Antimatter Collisions
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Graduate Properties of Mass in Curved Space-Time
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Graduate How Do Accretion Disks Around Black Holes Form and Function?
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Graduate What is the minimum mass required to distort space and time ?
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Undergrad How is E=mc^2 connected to the speed of light?
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Undergrad Where does gravity get its energy from?
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Graduate 1905 paper Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon its Energy-Content?
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Graduate Understanding "Linearity" in Hawking & Ellis' Subspace of T_p
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Graduate Is Time Altered in a Gravitational Field?
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Undergrad Understanding Gravity and Mass: A Confusing Concept Explained
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Graduate Physical meaning of index gymnastics
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Graduate Understanding the Lemaitre metric
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Graduate Gravitational waves and gravitation
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Graduate How can we say there is Zero G force in space what about SUN's G ?
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High School Learn About the Alcubierre Warp Drive: A High Schooler's Guide
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High School Special Relativity and Distance/Space
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