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Graduate Is Electromagnetism Relative and Does it Create a Paradox in Moving Frames?
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Undergrad Light Speed Relativity: A Puzzling Question
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Graduate Units of length and time in MeV?
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Undergrad Spacetime and how wormholes relate to it
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Graduate EPR experiments imply STR not correct?
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Graduate Embedding curved spacetime in higher-d flat spacetime
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Graduate Black Hole and the event horizon
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Graduate Matter and Antimatter - Gravity
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Undergrad Gravitational Lensing Deflection angle
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Graduate Time dilation in de Sitter Special Relativity
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Graduate Collapse to a ring singularity
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Graduate Stupid question about invariance of maxwell equations
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Graduate Finding the ring-singularity of a rotating black hole
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About Deja Vu: Mass and travelling into an alternate universe.
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Graduate Kinetic and dynamic twin effect
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Graduate Lorentz-Fitzgerald Contraction or Time Dilation?
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Graduate Is There Evidence for Electric Field Contraction in Space?
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Graduate Operational definition of four velocity
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Graduate SR is that nothing can move faster than light
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Graduate How does curved spacetime result in an effective gravitational force?
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Graduate Is Gravitational Acceleration a Violation of Space Curvature Theory?
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Graduate Finding Ratio Between Reduced Circumference & Radius of a Black Hole
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Graduate Cosmic microwave background and a reference frame
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Graduate Killing Vector on S^2: Solving the Killing Equation
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Graduate A few questions from introduction to sr by rindler.
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Undergrad How Do GR and SR Influence Modern Technologies Beyond Nuclear Energy?
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Graduate Calculating Stress Energy Tensor for Rotating Bodies
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Graduate How does the theory of relativity affect our understanding of temperature?
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Undergrad What does pressure mean in regards to GR?
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Graduate Can tensors always commute with each other or are there exceptions?
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Graduate Is 2nd postulate of SR necessary?
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Graduate Question on general principle of relativity
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Undergrad Can Infinitesimal Time Change Our Understanding of Physics?
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Graduate Quantum Mech incompatible with Relativity
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Graduate What Does Repulsive Gravity Do to Space-Time?
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Graduate Understanding Weinberg's Symmetries and Rays
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Graduate About a Lorentz matrix and its inverse
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Graduate Superextreme rotating black hole
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Graduate What Distinguishes Timelike from Non-Spacelike Curves in Spacetime?
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Graduate Effects of non-linearity of GR
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Graduate Poisson brackets for Hamiltonian descriptions
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Graduate Mathamatical Description of the Cosmological Principle
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Undergrad The Limitations of Time Travel: Ignoring Spatial Movement
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Graduate Einstein's STR is valid for systems that are not accelerating.
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Graduate Addition of velocities for General Relativity
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Graduate Four vector component. how to recognize it?
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Undergrad Flash Light at the Speed of Light Question
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Graduate Is GR a 2nd order approximation in g?
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Graduate Is Proper Time the Only Measure of Motion in Spacetime?
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Graduate Can Relativity Explain a 5000 Year Old Universe with Billions of Light Years?
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Graduate Relativity of Simultaneity: possible scenario?
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Graduate Instantaneous EPR: Measuring Reception Times
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Undergrad Understanding Time Dilation: Whose Clock Ticks Faster in Special Relativity?
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Graduate Explaining Weak & Null Singularities in Black Holes
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Graduate Plot of the Fabric of Spacetime - Schwarzschild
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Graduate Time Travel and Conservation Laws
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Graduate Simultaneity; is it valid to deduce that events occur at the same time?
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High School If the sun were to approach the earth
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Graduate Does Relativity Challenge Our Understanding of Velocity Addition with Tachyons?
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Graduate Equivalence of inertial & gravitational mass-I need a sanity check.
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Graduate What distinguishes Kerr and Schwarzschild blackholes?
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Graduate Understanding (0,1)-Tensor in Relativity
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Undergrad Understanding the Relationship Between Matter, Energy, and the Speed of Light
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Graduate Definition of Spatial Velocity in GR Homework
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Graduate Intriguing Questions Regarding Nature of Time in Special Relativity
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Graduate Do Black Holes Really Make Objects Disappear or Just Stretch Them Out?
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Graduate Thermal radiation during black hole collapse
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Graduate Stress-energy tensor for a rotating object
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High School What Are Some Beginner-Friendly Resources for Understanding Relativity?
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Graduate Lorentz contraction and simultaneous detection of the ends of the moving rod?
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Graduate Lorentz force: absolute reference frame?
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Graduate Special Relativity and the Lagrangian
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Graduate Can Magnetic Fields Control Miniature Black Holes in Quantum Mechanics?
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Graduate Curvature of Spacetime: an inacurate Description?
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High School Can Gravitational Waves Actually Harm Us or Destroy Planets?
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Undergrad Do objects moving at faster speeds have a stronger gravitational pull?
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High School What units is E=MC measured in?
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Undergrad Would the removal of the sun result in a shockwave?
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Graduate Is temperature an observer-invariant concept in relativity?
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Graduate Why is the volume element a scalar density of weight -1?
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Graduate What is the significance of the order of tensor indices?
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Graduate Light and electric charge constant?
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Graduate Can Geodesic Deviation Prove the Gaussian Curvature of a Cylinder is Zero?
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High School Gravitational force between the moon and the Earth
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Graduate Gravity only illusion due to expansion of universe?
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Undergrad Understanding Scattering of Light in the Atmosphere
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Graduate Mass and Energy Conservation in Relativistic Frames
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Graduate From the direct Lorentz transformation to the inverse one.
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Undergrad Is E=mc2 Related to Zeno's Paradox?
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Graduate GR simulation - is it so difficult?
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Graduate What Happens When You Pull a 5-Light-Second Ribbon?
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Graduate A question about the principle of special relativity
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Graduate SR & Accelerations: Do You & I Have Same Proper Time?
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Undergrad Do high and low energy photons follow the same trajectory around a planet?
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Graduate Relativistic Effects of 1-Min Flashlight on 10-Yr Solar Energy
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Graduate Gravitational waves - second question
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Graduate Is the Speed of Light a Universal Constant if Time is Measured in Meters?
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Undergrad Having trouble understanding why FTL implies time travel
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Graduate Does kinetic energy transform into heat at a microscopic level?
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Graduate How Does Special Relativity Connect Space and Time?
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