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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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Undergrad Object's mass does not increase as it approaches the speed of light?
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Undergrad Gravitational Force: Evidence & Distance
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Graduate Understanding Curvature Perturbation in Cosmology
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Graduate Understanding the Equivalency Principle: Elevator Example and Its Limitations
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Graduate Relativity through different scales
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Graduate Is the Cosmological Constant the Same as Dark Energy?
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Undergrad Electric field and light and stuff
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Graduate Physical meanings of universal coordinates in schwarzschild metric
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Undergrad Mass at equator versus mass at pole
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Graduate Experimental sticky (Hafele-Keating experiment)
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Graduate Understanding the False Twin Paradox: An Alternative Explanation
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Graduate Rotation and Minkowski diagrams.
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Graduate Evotos Experiment: Equator vs. 45° Latitude
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Graduate I am having troubles with the gravitational time dialtion equation.
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Graduate Time and the relative speed of an Expanding Universe
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Graduate Issues with Eddington-Finkelstein Coordinates
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Graduate Why Does Rotating the Minkowski Metric Yield Non-Zero Curvature Components?
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Graduate Why is the relativistic Lagrangian for a free particle proportional to 1/\gamma?
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Undergrad The aether was a flawed experiment?
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Graduate In 4-D, the Earth orbits around the sun in a straight line
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Graduate Why FTL travel of light spot can't carry any information?
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Graduate By photon's POV, would light travel infinity in no time?
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Undergrad Help with energy-mass equivalence
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Graduate Why Hawking radiation contains other particles besides photon?
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Graduate Relativity Questions on Motion Limits
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Graduate Time dilation can't possibly be explained this easily
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Graduate Massless Particles: Speed of Light & Gravitons
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Graduate Simple argument for area conservation under Lorentz transformation?
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Graduate All rotating black holes will eventually stop?
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Graduate Schwarzschild affine connection
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Graduate Covariant divergence question from Landau and Lifshitz
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Graduate Lorentz Contraction: Explaining the Mystery
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Graduate Einstein's box in media and mass-energy equivalence
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High School Is it possible? (faster than light in a medium)
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Graduate S,S' in the Lorentz transform.
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Undergrad A and B are twins,A notice B moving away from him with velocity v
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High School Why Does Light Slow Down in a Medium?
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Graduate Contradiction between Quantum Mechanics and Special Relativity？
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Graduate Einstein's box of phonons and energy-mass equivalence
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Graduate Theory of relativity second postulate
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Graduate Minkowski Norms and Lorentz Metric in Spacetime
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Graduate Black hole can regard as most efficency mass-energy convecter?
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Graduate Understand GR: Tips for Ancient Non-Mathematical Fossils
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Graduate Relativistic Collision Effects on Speed, Mass
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Graduate Is Time Relative? The Twin Experiment and Its Implications
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Graduate Solving Space-Time Variation in the Ocean
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Graduate Relative Motion: Framing Object Velocity
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Graduate Does spacetime could curved in a square way ?
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Graduate Riding on a Photon: Is Time Really Eternal?
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Undergrad F = qvB in Relativity: A Charge in Magnetic Field
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Graduate Why does time dilation only affect GPS satellites in one direction?
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Graduate Power Required to Accelerate Space Craft to Near Light Speed
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Graduate Do Charged Particles Radiate in Different Frames of Reference?
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Graduate Energy density of grav. field - analagous to EM
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Graduate Energy conservation in relativity
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Graduate Electric resonance in a moving frame
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Graduate How Do Black Holes Increase Their Mass Despite Observational Paradoxes?
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Undergrad Can a moving observer detect a magnetic field from a stationary electric charge?
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Graduate Formalism for an extended object
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Graduate How does an observer's perception of a black hole change while diving into it?
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Graduate Explaining Relative Simultaneity
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Graduate Merging Black Holes & the Nature of Time
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Undergrad A 13-Year-Old's Physics Dilemma
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Graduate Could Space-Time Variability Explain Unexpected Spacecraft Speeds?
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Graduate Observing the Universe at Relativistic Speeds: Confusion and Curiosity
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Graduate GR Resources: Books 3,4,6 & Arxiv Free Material
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Graduate Does Relativistic Length Contraction Induce Stress in Physical Bodies?
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Graduate Equivalence principle to other forces?
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Graduate Does Object Configuration Remain Consistent After Relativistic Transport?
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Graduate Q. about Bradley's Stellar Aberration
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Graduate What is the relationship between black holes and singularities?
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Graduate Calculating Covariant Derivate of Tensor T^u_v
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Graduate Does c-invariance in SR postulate need inertial frames ?
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