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Graduate Lorentz Contraction: What really Contracts?
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Graduate Dust filled universe, is there a type of tension defined?
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Undergrad Understanding Time Dilation in Special Relativity
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Graduate The doppler effect and time dilation context
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Graduate Could Our Universe Be Part of a Larger Cosmic Cycle?
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Graduate Unique Distance on Pseudo-Riemannian Manifolds: Riccardo's Question
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Graduate What Aspects of General Relativity Challenge the Speed Limit of Light?
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Graduate Is your velocity constant in space-time?
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Graduate Einstein Vacuum Equation, Vacuum Constraint Equations
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Graduate Isn't working with the relativistic Lagrangian AWFUL?
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Graduate A bunch of LHC relativity questions
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Graduate Relativistic mass,momentum and energy.
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Undergrad How does the swimmer analogy explain the movement of light in the ether?
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Undergrad Understanding Momentum: What Happens When Insufficient Force is Applied?
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Undergrad Relative Velocities A & B: 5MPH Each
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Graduate How Does Relativity Affect Time Perception for Astronauts and Earth Observers?
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Graduate Steel bar bisected by event horizon
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Does a black hole cause light to move faster?
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Graduate A simple SR question, but confusing to me
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Graduate Faster than the speed of light
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Graduate Using light to see the world requires speed of light to be maximum?
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Graduate If the sun suddenly dissapeared.
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Undergrad A & B's Time Paradox: A Space-Time Conundrum
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Graduate Issues with advanced Eddington-Finkelstein coordinates
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Graduate Understanding Gravity with Embedding Diagrams
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Undergrad Question about light speed (is velocity cumulative?)
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Graduate Dust filled universe but dust is a real field.
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Graduate Quick question about gravity/time dilation
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Graduate The photon gas in the curved space
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Graduate Relativistic Boat: Does It Float or Sink?
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Graduate Rotating Black Hole: Is it Logical?
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Graduate Where s the moving train on the embankment?
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Graduate Tensor Index Exercises: Find Extra Resources Here
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Undergrad Weak and strong equivalence- what is the difference really?
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Graduate Gravity Clock: Pendulum Periods for Observers A & B
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Graduate Multibody system in general relativity
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Graduate Relativistic scattering Lab and CM frames
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Graduate Questions About Absolute/Relative Velocity and Time
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Graduate Find the Proper Time Extrema: Twin Paradox Explained
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Graduate Is Spacetime the True Cause of Inertia? Revisiting Newton's Bucket Experiment
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Graduate Is the Doppler effect for atomic spectra a purely realistic effect?
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Graduate Lorentz contraction of a light pulse
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Undergrad Target Distance and Light Travel: The Impact on Spatial Position
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Graduate Light & Relativity: 2 Questions Answered
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High School Seriously, why can't I go faster than the speed of light?
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Undergrad Why does a travelling twin age slower but not get shorter?
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Graduate Twin Paradox: Can Barbara Reach XEON Alive?
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Graduate Gravitons are still theoretical, of course, but I'm not quite sure how
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Graduate How Does the Curvature of Space Affect Our Perception of Gravity?
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Graduate Hilbert's Derivation of Field Equations?
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Graduate The Principles of Relativity - Help Kindly Requested
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Graduate Relativistic velocity limitations
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Graduate Gravitational Waves and the Role of Photons in LIGO
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Undergrad Acceleration and time question
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Graduate Einstein equation point mass solution
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How to pronounce 'Christoffel'
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Graduate Tensor Confusion: Lambda & Partial Derivatives
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Graduate Singularities in colliding black holes
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Graduate Unravelling Metrics of Spacetime
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Graduate Deriving Equations for Light Sphere in Collinear Motion - O and O' Observers
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Undergrad Explaining Special Relativity's Time Dilation
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Graduate Thoughts about Causality and Paradoxes
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Graduate Uniform background dust of plank mass black holes.
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Undergrad Thought experiment about Simultaneity
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Graduate Where did Einstein say :mass curve space/time ?
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Graduate Time dilation and space travel
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Graduate Is energy conserved in general relativity?
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Graduate Relativistic gravity incomplete? Big Bang singularity
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Graduate Is Faster than Light travel impossible?
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Undergrad Would we as humans ever be able to travel close to the speed of light?
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Graduate GR in a universe without matter or energy
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Graduate 2 black holes, 2*M -> 1 b.h., 2*M - f*2*M?
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Undergrad Solving Velocity Addition Formula: 0.75c+0.75c = 0.96c
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Undergrad What is the Lorentz contraction equation for bodies at relativistic speeds?
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Graduate Question about Schwarzschild radius
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Graduate Relativity and Spatial Dimension
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Graduate How would you calculate how bodies curve space/time?
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Graduate Einstein and idea that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light
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Undergrad Proton Mass-Energy: E=mc^2 Explained
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Graduate Speed of Light & Time: Einstein's Theorem Explained
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Graduate Absolute zero and hot in respect to time dilation
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Graduate Deriving Einstein's Field Equations: A Comprehensive Guide for Laymen
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Undergrad Light, dielectric medium, c, wavelength
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Graduate General Relativity look at backwards.
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High School Understanding Special Relativity: A Simple Explanation for KS3 Students
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Graduate Gravitational vs geodesic proper time
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Graduate Differences in Newtonian and Relativistic predictions of gravity
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Graduate Increase in spin rate as object collases to black hole
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Graduate Dificulty with Einstein's derivation of TAO
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Graduate Formulation of Einstein-Hilbert Action
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Graduate Writing the EFE in a different form
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Graduate There is a mistake in relativity.
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Graduate Sun Vanishes - How Long Till Orbits Change?
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Graduate How little does a hydrogen atom curve space?
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Graduate Is Lorentz Contraction Indistinguishable from Standard Relativity?
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Undergrad Need help understanding the twins
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Graduate Can you scoop out part of a black hole?
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Graduate Understanding Einstein's Twin Paradox, past the usual level?
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Graduate Zeno's Paradox Applied to Physics: Can Object B Catch Up?
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Graduate Relativistic Rotation: Does v=rω?
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