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Graduate You can't exceed the speed of light

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Graduate Speed of Light Dilation: Does Observer See Slower Beam?

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Graduate The vacuum Einstein equations and flat spacetime

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Graduate Why can photons travel faster than c?

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Graduate Thought experiment concerning worldlines

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Graduate Is a Photon the Optimal Channel for Communication Between Inertial Observers?

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Graduate Conservation law at high speeds

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Graduate Is the Speed of Light Decreasing Due to a New Interpretation of Ether?

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Graduate Can the Fabric of Space-Time Break Under Extreme Mass?

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Graduate Why is the speed of light constant and independent from the observer?

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Graduate Why Expect Gravity Waves from Distant Cosmic Events?

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Graduate Twin Paradox: Accelerating Rocket Ship from Earth in 2100

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Graduate Creating black holes through relative motion

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Graduate Is the Speed of Light Absolute or Relative in Special Theory of Relativity?

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Graduate Thought experiment: Orbiting bodies close to C

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Undergrad Does Gravity "Lose" Pulling Power?

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Graduate The Fourier-Minkowski transform?

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Graduate Another 'photon's reference frame' thread

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Graduate Is a falling elevator a valid inertial frame?

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Graduate Why Do Spaceships Shorten When They Fly at the Speed of Light?

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Graduate What is gauge in General Relativity?

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Graduate What is a Simple Example of a Functional and Lagrangian in Gravity?

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Graduate Understanding the Physical Meaning of Wigner Rotation

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Undergrad Is it realy true that nothing can travel faster than light? if so, why?

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Graduate General Relativity and Minkowski space question

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Graduate Structure of Minkowski Space

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Undergrad Floating in Space: Can Humans Create Their Own Orbits?

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Undergrad Mass and Speed in Special Relativity

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Graduate Help understanding special relativity concepts please.

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Graduate Is the Pen on My Desk a Geodesic and Is My Room an Inertial Frame?

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Graduate Question on Space time geometry

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Graduate Relativistic effects on apparent angular size

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Graduate How Does Gravity Influence the Speed of Light in Space-Time?

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Graduate Gravity: Effects of Curvature & Speed of Light

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Graduate Understanding Noether's Theorem: Field Theory on Minkowski Space

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High School Understanding the Equation E=mc^2: Any Thoughts?

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Undergrad How fast are we really moving?

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Graduate What happens when you enter a black hole

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Graduate Still learning about special relativity, .

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High School Earth's Diameter Stick: A Spinning Spiral?

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Graduate Einstein’s return to ether, what future of relativity?

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Undergrad What is the difference between the equivalence principle and Newton's third law?

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Graduate Is c invariant in Accelerating frames?

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Graduate Gravity/Curved Spacetimes effect on Time

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Graduate Do Moving Trains Affect Time Synchronization?

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Undergrad Extended Coulomb's Law: Need Help w/ LaTeX

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Graduate Where is My Understanding of Relativity Wrong in the Light Clock Example?

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High School What is the significance of squaring speed in E=mc²?

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Graduate Is there a simpler way to understand the Lorentz factor?

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Graduate Infinite mass = infinite gravity ?

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Graduate What software do real physicists use for GR calculations?

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Graduate Are My Thoughts on GR Body at Rest Correct?

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Graduate Length contraction in a current carrying wire?

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Graduate Is Everything "Else" a Black Hole?

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Graduate Electrons' Angular Velocity in Atomic Structure: Examining the Same V?

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Graduate Is light speed faster coming from a smaller star?

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Graduate Understanding the Impact of Michelson Morley Experiment on Modern Science

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Graduate Can GR be formulated as background dependent?

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Graduate Contravariant derivative tensor problem

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Graduate Photon Trajectory in Moving Laser Pointer

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Graduate Some Burning Questions about Time Dilation

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Graduate Confused about Velocity Based Time Dilation

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Graduate Spacetime & Rotating Planet: Velocities Impact

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High School Is Time's Speed Just Wild Speculation?

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Undergrad Simultaneity of events in 2 dimensions

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Graduate A paper I heard about last year about gravity.

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Graduate Two Spaceships, .90c - Why No Faster Than Light?

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Graduate What distinguishes the interior and exterior Schwarzschild metrics in Maxima?

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Graduate Gravitational Redshift for Photon around Kerr Black Hole

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Undergrad General Relativity for Dummies

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Undergrad Confused by an example in Brian Greene's book and SR in general

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Graduate Is It Possible to Integrate General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics?

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Graduate Is Faster-Than-Light Travel Possible Relative to Other Celestial Bodies?

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Graduate Relative Object Speed Q: Observer Moving or Hula Hoop?

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Graduate F.O.R. and Acceleration/Deceleration Question

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Graduate My twin galaxy puzzle Please help

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Graduate Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP)

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Undergrad Special relativity fundamental question

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Graduate Is the acceleration of mass A equal to mass B in Born rigid motion?

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Graduate Is Action&Reaction Strictly Synchronous

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Graduate Alpha Centauri to Earth: Apparent Speed > c?

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Graduate Black Body in Motion Books: Find & Learn Relativity

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Graduate How is the twin paradox solved in the first model of the expanding universe?

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Undergrad Light & Time Travel: Can the Light See Us Stopped?

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Graduate Gravitational Effects on Atomic Clocks and Other Forces

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Graduate Equivalence Principal, Acceleration, Curved Space

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Graduate Gravitational collapse to form a black hole

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Undergrad When adding up velocities, is it possible to produce 1+1=1?

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Graduate What Do Observers See in the Special Relativity Clock Paradox?

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Graduate What are the effects of traveling at light speed on aging and time perception?

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Graduate Does Time Exist at Absolute Rest or Light Speed?

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Graduate Why should the action be Lorentz invariant?

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Graduate C plus and ACAUSALITY in accelerating systems

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Undergrad Is this explanation of E=mc^2 correct or incorrect and why?

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Graduate Mathematical Question: Validity of Equations for Special Relativity

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Undergrad Can I really not tell if I am in motion?

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Graduate How does velocity affect the rate of time?

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Graduate Help Understand SR - Steve's Questions

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Undergrad How Does Distance from Earth Affect Our Perception of Time?

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