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Graduate Did Einstein Truly Explain the Mystery Behind Gravity's Nature?
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Graduate My Sad Paradox: Watching 30 Years in 3?
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Graduate Can objects moving faster than light exist in special relativity?
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High School How Did Physicists Determine the Speed of Light?
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Graduate Are the formulas that account for aberraion and doppler shift compatible?
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Graduate Definitions (continued from the cosmology forum)
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Graduate How come equations don't account for
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Graduate Are gravitons consistent with black holes emitting them?
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Graduate So, thank you very much again.Why not length contraction?
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Graduate Length Contraction in Particle Accelerators
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Graduate Could Negative Mass Break the Cosmic Speed Limit?
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Graduate Possibility of Time Travel at Light Speed
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Graduate How Does Light Behave on a Rotating Disc in Different Reference Frames?
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Graduate Unifying Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity: Why Hasn't It Been Done Yet?
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Graduate Should spacetime transformations make a group?
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High School Why light can achieve such fast speed?
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Graduate Question about greene's the fabric of the cosmos
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High School Gravity Explained Simply: What Makes Objects Attract?
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Graduate Palatini Formalism: History, Motivation, Advantages
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Graduate Combining SR and GR time dilation
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Graduate Is relativity remain unchanged?
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Graduate Is Movement Through Space-Time Really Possible?
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Undergrad Webliography: What is the experimental basis of Special Relativity?
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Graduate Magnetic Fields and Lorentz force flaw
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Graduate Lorentz transformation without the speed of light postulate
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Graduate Minkowski Metric: Does it Violate Metric Space Axioms?
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Graduate Does the existance of relativity prove that gravity's wrong?
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Graduate Relativity in 2 spatial dimensions
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Graduate Does Light's Speed Depend on the Motion of Its Source?
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Undergrad How Does Time Dilation Work in Relativity?
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Graduate How does gravity get away from a source so it can pull back to the source?
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Graduate Gravity Deflecting Light and Gravity Lensing
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Graduate Object Approaching Event Horizon: Why Does it Slow Down?
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OriginalPapersWhere can I find Einstein's original handwritten papers?
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Undergrad Light shone in a train bouncing off mirrors
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Graduate Expansion of Universe and Time dilation
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Graduate Understanding Parallel Transport and its Implications for Coordinate Systems
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Graduate Galileo's relativistic postulate question
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Graduate How Does the Twin Paradox Illustrate Time Dilation and Aging Differences?
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High School Is Exploding the Atom Possible?
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Graduate Electron and photons time of flight
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Graduate Question about A Calorimetric Test of Special Relativity
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Graduate What is the significance of v=0 in Eddington-Finkelstein/Kerr coordinates?
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Graduate What is Space? Mass, Curvature, Dimensions Explained
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Graduate Potential to rectify an error in wikipedia
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Graduate GR Point Masses: Seeking Help from Relativists
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Graduate Perspective and Time Question RE: Green's Fabric of Cosmos
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Graduate Confusion about relativistic fluids
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Undergrad Understanding the Lorentz Factor: A Simple Explanation on Simple.wikipedia.org
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Graduate How Does Speed Affect Laser Light in a Moving Space Probe?
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Graduate Do mirrors show simultaneous events in the mirror frame?
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Graduate Black Holes, Quantum Gravity and the Curvature of spacetime
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Graduate Validity of the Doppler shift formula?
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Graduate Is the Time Dilation Formula Incorrect?
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Graduate Minkowski Space-Time: A Philosopher's Guide
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Graduate Lorentz contraction at relativistic speeds
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Graduate SR Inertial Frame Scenario Confusion
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Graduate Can We Observe Our Own Past Through Reflected Light?
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Graduate What are some open questions in general relativity for microscopic objects?
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Graduate Black Hole Entropy: Is S=A/4 robust ?
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Graduate Is Einstein's Gravity Theory Historically Accurate?
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Graduate Does Curved Spacetime Affect Atoms?
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Graduate Does Defining a Four-Dimensional Velocity Vector Make Sense for Time Dilation?
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Undergrad What are some everyday applications of relativity in modern technology?
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Graduate Gravitational Time Dilation and the Galaxy Rotation Curve
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Graduate Space-Time gravitational field problem
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Graduate How does Curvature Relate to 'Gravitation'?
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Graduate What is the proper time interval in special relativity?
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Graduate Is there such a thing as at rest ?
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Undergrad Why one cannot push light but just in the normal direction to the ray?
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Graduate Special relativity and the Photon
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Graduate Mass-inflation in rotating/charged black holes
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Undergrad Would You Experience Weightlessness in a Free-Falling Elevator?
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Graduate Volume of Dimension reduced due to gravitation
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Graduate Why is Light Always Linked to Time in Relativity?
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Graduate Length contraction and magnetic field
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Graduate Homogeneity of Space and Time vs Gravity
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Undergrad Gravity: Is There an Equation?
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Graduate Is There a Connection Between Inertia and Time Dilation?
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High School E=mc^2 and is it possible E/c^2=m
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Graduate Gravitational force vs space time fabric
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Graduate A Challenge to Special Relativity?
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Graduate Particle disappearing from view if it exceeds c
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Graduate Why should A change its view on the length of B ship during relative motion?
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Graduate Is there a formula for the shrinking of the universe due to object curvature?
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Graduate What's the curvature of spacetime describe?
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Graduate Spacetime we are able to distinguish between different inertial frames
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Graduate Surely fault about relativistic momentum
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Graduate Constructing Lorentz Basis: Restrictions & Possibilities
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Graduate Clarifying the Jerk Four Vector: Definition & Form
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Graduate Gravitational Lensing: Extent & Effects on Universe
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Graduate Is Mass a Relative Concept in Physics?
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Graduate What Happens to a Photon's 4 Momentum After a Lorentz Boost?
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Graduate Thim experiment: Doppler expected or not?
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Graduate Understanding Special Relativity
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Graduate Time Dilation & Gravity: Can You Go Back in Time?
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Graduate Extrapolating Schwarzschild exterior coordinate
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Graduate Kretschmann Scalar for Rotating Black Holes: Curvature Invariant
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Graduate Varying timing of eclipses of Algol and constant speed of light?
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Graduate Can You Be Both Dead and Alive When Traveling at Light Speed?
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