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Undergrad Question about relativity example
- ivans
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Graduate What is the Relative Speed of Light at an Angle?
- Gear300
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Graduate Waves in Vacuum: Can They Travel Faster than c?
- gonchenshi
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Graduate Vacuum energy destruction of wormhole
- nomadreid
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Graduate Definition of energy in general relativity
- tom.stoer
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Graduate Geometrodynamics: Research Status & Wheeler's Text
- Reedeegi
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Graduate Schwarzschild solution and velocity of stationary observer
- dianaj
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Graduate Time in a black hole and Weyl curvature
- Naty1
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Graduate Why won't Spaceships at Right Angles Collide in Frame S1?
- daniel_i_l
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Undergrad Time dilation at an unchanging velocity
- ryuunoseika
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Graduate Understanding the Interval Metric
- FayeKane
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Graduate Gravitational effects on photons
- jnorman
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Graduate How to Calculate the Limit of Fraction Involving Four Vectors with q --> 0
- parton
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Undergrad What is the effect of aging during space travel?
- Radek01
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Graduate Scaling Paradox: Differential Geometry & General Relativity
- jdrudmin
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Undergrad Time Dilation and Future Interstellar Travel
- JuggyJugs
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Graduate What are the weaknesses of Einstein's GR ?
- Neitrino
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Graduate Why does a photon have zero rest mass?
- klij
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Graduate Tunneling does not carry information > c?
- nomadreid
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Graduate Can someone explain time dilation w.r.t following experiment?
- venuz
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Graduate What is gravitational potential energy in General Relativity?
- Zman
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Graduate Is it technically correct to say matter is made of energy
- klij
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Graduate Does Einstein implicitly proves himself and the Lorentz Transformation wrong?
- Grimble
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Undergrad Why Does Time Seem to Slow Down When Checking a Clock Mid-Tick?
- Llama77
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Graduate Can Humans Survive Near a Black Hole's Event Horizon?
- mjacobsca
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Graduate Creating Repulsive and Attractive Gravity
- putongren
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Graduate Mass/energy as a condition of spacetime
- FayeKane
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High School Gravity & Atraction: Questions about Earth's Orbit
- igurmendez
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Graduate Final Clarification: Collisions in Special Relativity
- brollysan
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Graduate Is the Dual Basis in Minkowski Space Affected by the Metric Tensor?
- NanakiXIII
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Graduate Constant Velocity Motion In Train Car
- mjacobsca
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Graduate Relativistic Effects on CMB and Cosmic Rays
- qraal
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Graduate Constraints on speed of light?
- Quickless
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Graduate The Mystery: Accelerating Time in Strong Gravitational Fields
- Tominator
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Graduate Understanding the Difference Between One-Forms and Vectors in GR
- NanakiXIII
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Graduate Gravitational mass vs inertial mass
- Neitrino
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Undergrad Question about how the speed of light is constant
- endusto
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Graduate Trying to generally understand Relativity.
- Virtuous
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Graduate General Relativity Recorded Lectures
- nicksauce
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Graduate Relativistic particle scattering
- Gerenuk
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Graduate How Can Local Theories in General Relativity Influence Global Topology?
- JustinLevy
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Graduate How Does Mass Transform into Momentum in Space Travel?
- FayeKane
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Graduate How is time related to black holes besides time dilation?
- sciroccokid
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Undergrad Time dilation and the photon clock
- Stellar1
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Graduate General & Special Relativity, Everyday Examples
- sciroccokid
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Graduate A room with a stronger gravitational force?
- harris_T
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Graduate Interactions of Moving Particles: Magnetic Fields and Experimental Results
- crx
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Graduate Relation between graviton and space curvature
- xMonty
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Graduate Is Travel to Parallel Universes Just a Myth or a Real Possibility?
- earamsey
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Graduate Is Gravitational Interaction Affected by Different Shapes of Bodies?
- paweld
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Graduate Combining Time Dilation from velocity and gravity
- edgepflow
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Undergrad Four Dimensions: The Key to Understanding Existence
- curiousphoton
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Undergrad Deriving the Michelson Interferometer Equation: d_m = (m[lambda])/2
- NovaKing
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Graduate LTB Metric: Dimensions Explained
- micomaco86572
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Undergrad Traveling faster than the speed of light?
- maxwilli06
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Graduate What Happens When Continuity of Time and Space Breaks Down?
- jason651293
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Graduate Electromagnetic field in a medium
- Bob_for_short
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Graduate Acceleration and Curvature: Understanding the Relationship
- Naty1
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High School Time dilation b/c of Gravitaional field strength
- mars shaw
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Graduate Torsion tensor: Geometric interpretation
- Terilien
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Graduate History of theories of motion; the role of inertia
- Cleonis
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Graduate Equation with Riemann curvature tensor
- paweld
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Graduate Distinguishing Curved Space vs. Coordinate Choices in Mathematics
- madness
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Undergrad Is there evidence that relativity contradicts Newton's 3rd law?
- aaryan0077
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Graduate Light beam speed in reference frames moving at relativistic velocities
- Pattonias
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Graduate Inverse Funcation of Relativistic mass
- Uncle6
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Graduate Equivalence between a Black Hole and travelling at the speed of light
- Pierre007080
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Undergrad What happens with a 'Light in a box theory'
- smokeee77
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Graduate Does forces travel faster than speed of light?
- matttan
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Graduate Question About Gravity: Bending of Space Time, Graviton, Super Force
- Fisicks
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Graduate How is singularity formed inside a black hole?
- yinfudan
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Graduate Is Relativity Really Relative? Clearing Up Confusion About Time and Light Speed
- BuddyPal
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Graduate Acceleration and velocity: Newtonian versus relativistic interpretation.
- Cleonis
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Graduate What Are the Challenges of Force in Special Relativity?
- sadraj
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Graduate Is there something behind a horizon?
- JohnStanton
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Graduate Does General Relativity Affect Vertical and Horizontal Light Beam Speeds?
- Nickelodeon
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Graduate How Does Relativity Affect Time Measurement and Velocity Perception?
- rajeshmarndi
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Graduate A & B Clocks: Why Velocity Time Dilation is Not a Paradox
- daudaudaudau
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Graduate Can an object falling towards a super massive planet reach the speed of light?
- Goalie33
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Graduate Relativistic Force Transformations
- jackqpublic
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Graduate Is Light Truly Constant Despite Its Properties?
- smokeee77
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Graduate Sum of the angles in 4D coordinates system
- mars shaw
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Graduate Can the Ehrenfest Paradox Occur for a Rotating Body with Relativistic Speeds?
- vin300
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Graduate How Does Time Dilation Impact Space Travel Durations?
- matheinste
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Graduate Lorentz Transformation in New Coordinates
- soupdejour
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Graduate How can black holes actually ever exist?
- Matthew Opitz
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Graduate Is variation pricip for light-geodetic correct?
- archipatelin
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Undergrad Is there a name for this equation?
- Jaxodius
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Graduate Particle bunching +Lorentz contraction
- Austin0
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Graduate What Makes Light Cone Physics So Intriguing?
- harshithelp
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High School What is galileian system of coordinate?
- DavidCcc
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Graduate Is poincare group simply connected?
- andrea.dapor
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Graduate Is law of universal gravitation really correct?
- DarkestNight
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Graduate Why is energy the time counterpart of momentum
- lolgarithms
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Graduate SR and GR in a medium, gravitational waves
- haushofer
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Graduate General Lorenz transformation is not group
- archipatelin
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Graduate Independent Components in Riemann-Christoffel Tensor
- Starproj
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Graduate Spacetime, curvature, orbit, matter and reactions
- Elliot.exe
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Graduate Spacetime - formal description of No Rip/Tear
- Julian M
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Graduate Time Dilation-Frames-Details and hypotheticals
- JackAtl
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