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Undergrad Solving Spinorial Maxwell's Equations with Wald
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Undergrad Synchronous Reference Frame: Definition and Usage
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Undergrad Black hole formation watched from a distance
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Undergrad Proving Lorentz Metric on Real Type (1,0;1,0) Tensors in Wald Ch. 13
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Undergrad Cartan's Understanding of Einstein Field Equation
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Undergrad Kerr Black Hole: Superradiance Flux - Show Negative when 0<ω<mΩH
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Undergrad E Vector in E=mc2? Scalar Multiplication & Vectors
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Undergrad Relativistic Force & Velocity Relation to Acceleration
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High School Time Dilation in a Galaxy: Calculating Mass Effects
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Undergrad Does Time Drive Black Hole Travelers to a Central Singularity?
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Undergrad How Long Does it Take to Fall into a Black Hole?
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Undergrad GW detectors -- How much has their sensitivity improved since 2008?
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High School Understanding Spacetime Diagrams from "Reality is not What it Seems
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Undergrad Principle of relativity for proper accelerating frame of reference
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Undergrad Shape of de Sitter Universe: Is Hyperboloid Misleading?
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Undergrad Time travel is a fact or fiction.?
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High School Charged Particle on Earth's Surface: Will It Emit Radiation?
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Undergrad Does time dilation occur due to the speed limit of light or c?
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Undergrad Understanding Frequency in Rindler Coordinates for a Scalar Massless Field
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High School Twin Paradox: Orbital Geodesics, Gravity, & Time Dilation
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Undergrad Future null infinity confusion
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Undergrad Distinguishing Einstein Cartan from GR: Experiments
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High School Time Dilation: Traveling to a Distant Star in 4.5yr
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Undergrad Rindler Transformation & 't Hooft's Introduction to General Relativity
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High School Space-Time Expansion: Objects Accelerating Without Force?
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High School How Matter Bends Space & Slows Time: Physical Mechanism
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Undergrad Natural direction of pushforwards and pullbacks
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Graduate Condition for a spacelike surface to be achronal
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Undergrad Classical Aberration Formula: Understanding & Application
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High School Photon Mass: Does Light Have Direction?
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Undergrad Information traveling faster than light? (thought experiment)
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Graduate A question on proper time in special relativity
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Graduate Some algebra in Schutz's textbook
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Undergrad Understanding Papapetrou's Spinning Test Particles in GR
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Undergrad Violation of Special Relativity Principle?
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Graduate M-Theory: Bosonic Fields - Need Help With Part III
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Undergrad Is Spacetime Curvature Misunderstood in Eddington's Experiment?
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Undergrad Purpose of Tensors, Indices in Tensor Calculus Explained
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Undergrad Parallel Transport of a Tensor: Understand Equation
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Undergrad Time Dilation in Gravitational Fields vs Acceleration on Earth
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Undergrad Geodesics in Schwarzschild metric
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Undergrad Deriving Contravariant Form of Levi-Civita Tensor
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Undergrad Showing Determinant of Metric Tensor is a Tensor Density
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Undergrad Relativity of Simultaneity Questions
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Undergrad Velocity in Relativity: Theoretical Analysis of Multi-Dimensional Universes
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Undergrad Expressing Vectors of Dual Basis w/Metric Tensor
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Undergrad Does a Magnet Curve Spacetime More Than a Non-Magnetic Mass?
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Undergrad Pole in the Barn Paradox: Exploring Relativity of Simultaneity
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Undergrad Calculating Force & Acceleration in Electrostatic Field (B=0)
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Undergrad GPS clock synchronization in ECI frame
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Undergrad Mass of Water Increasing with Heating
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Undergrad FTL Travel: The Matryoshka Paradox
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High School Reactionless Drive Using Light Bouncing Off Moving Mirrors
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Undergrad What is the Meaning of Foliate in Physics and Spacetime?
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High School Inertial Frame of Ref & Forces: Understand Special Relativity
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Insights A Principle Explanation of the “Mysteries” of Modern Physics
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Undergrad Relative Speed of Light Between Objects
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Undergrad Light Emission by Stars: Mass, Red Shift & Hubble's Law
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Undergrad Questions regarding traveling speed in time and gravity as a force
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Undergrad Does Special Relativity Affect Mass?
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Undergrad Scope of General Relativity: Assumptions & Implications
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Undergrad Can You Derive \(T^{\mu\nu}\) From the Given Lagrangian?
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Undergrad Transpose and Inverse of Lorentz Transform Matrix
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Undergrad Schwarzschild Metric Singularity: Why?
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High School Does GTD Really Cause Gravity? | Brian Greene/Horn/e's 2011 The Hidden Reality
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Undergrad Force on Scale in Rocket Scenario: Calculation & Discussion
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Graduate Some questions about the derivation steps in the Gravitational deflection of light section in Schutz
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High School How do we know what would happen if time reversed?
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High School Derive Special Relativity: Alternative Paths
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Graduate Can the geodesic equation be derived from the EFE in a certain limit?
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High School What is the distance at which gravity and the cosmological force are equal?
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Undergrad Equivalence principle question
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Undergrad Position Vector in Curved Space Time: Explained
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High School Doppler Shift of Neutron: Energy & Momentum
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High School Cosmological Red Shift in a Perfectly Reflecting Box
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High School How Do Points M and O' Move Relative to Point O in Space and Time?
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High School Faster than speed of light due to time dilation?
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Undergrad Gravity at Schwarzschild Radius of a Black Hole
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Undergrad Another interpretation of Lorentz transformations
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Undergrad Is Covariant Derivative Notation Misleading in Vector Calculus?
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High School Is Relativity the Evolution of Classical Physics?
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Undergrad Time Dilation: Variables Beyond Speed & Gravity?
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Undergrad Left Invariant Metric: What I Don't Understand
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High School Okay, so is Mach's principle true, or not?
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Undergrad Discussing Interior Schwarzschild Proper Lengths & Gaussian Curvature
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Undergrad Gravity: Introduction to Einstein's General Relativity
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Undergrad A short derivation of the relativistic forms of energy and momentum
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Undergrad Wavelength of Light Ray Affected by Gravity
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High School Need to Check GR Beliefs? Integrity Filter Here!
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High School Why Does Mass Pull on Other Stuff?
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Undergrad How do forces change with speed?
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High School Light Speed Traveling: Cosmic Background Radiation Effects
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High School Gravitational Lensing: Refraction or Something Else?
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Undergrad Derive Escape Velocity GR: Source for Schwarzschild Metric
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High School Energy & Pendulums: Is Negative Energy Real?
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Undergrad Negative Distance Metric: Elapsed Time & Space-Time Interval
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Undergrad If gravity is not a force, what is holding us down?
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High School MEGA Drive: Jim Woodward's Propulsion System, Real or Fiction?
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Undergrad Uncovering a Decent Proof of E=mc^2
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Undergrad Calculating Covariant Derivative of Riemann Tensor in Riemann Normal Coordinates
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