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Undergrad Transformation mass -> energy vice versa
- desert fox
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Undergrad Curious Question: Relationship between energy and graviy?
- gfeing4935
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Undergrad Simple Harmonic Motion at Relativistic Speeds
- Washer101
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Graduate Time as coordinate in many-body relativistic mechanics
- pellman
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Graduate Can FTL Signals Reveal Inherent Clock Desynchronization in Inertial Frames?
- Austin0
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Undergrad Is Motion Absolute or Relative in Different Frames of Reference?
- JKaufinger
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Graduate Does Electromagnetic Radiation Create a Gravitational Field?
- Denton
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Graduate Is Our View of Galaxies Distorted by Their Light Travel Time and Gravity?
- Teeril
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Graduate How Does the Speed of Light Remain Constant in a Moving Spacecraft?
- JKaufinger
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Graduate Relativistic Mass: Does it Increase?
- rcgldr
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Graduate Equivalence Principle & Tidal Effects
- patrickd
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Graduate Gravity and Length Contraction
- Charlie G
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Graduate Vierbeins and spin connections kinetic terms (probably a stupid question)
- luxxio
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Graduate Is an Infinite Speed of Locality Possible?
- debra
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Graduate What are the physics of changes of timecounts of accelerated/decelerated clocks?
- Bob K
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Graduate What is counteracting spacetime deformation?
- zonde
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Undergrad The original papers of Einstein about GR
- quasar987
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Graduate What Happens to Time if a Clock is Independent of its Reference Body's Motion?
- Bob K
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Graduate Can an accelerating rod's length decrease faster than the speed of light?
- qetuol
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Graduate Newbie vs Einstein: Questions about Time Travel and Quantum Entanglement
- tnadys
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Graduate Nonlinear vs. chaotic spacetime
- Loren Booda
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Graduate Understanding the STR Paradox of Electron's Rotating Magnetic Field
- Lasand
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Graduate Understanding Time Dilation and Light Sources in Relation to Mass
- Denton
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Undergrad Do astronauts of different masses weigh differently in an accelerating spaceship?
- Charlie G
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Graduate Time derivative of relativistic momentum
- birulami
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Graduate Derivation of E=mc^2 in Wikipedia
- birulami
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Graduate Space-time contraction question
- Rade
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Graduate Is it possible to watch time progress faster?
- withahow
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Graduate How does the speed of light always appear constant?
- cmurray
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Undergrad Wormhole Trouble: Spacetime Folding Over Itself
- Charlie G
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Graduate Questions about light, theory of relativity
- gabriel4786
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Graduate Charge conservation in curved spacetime
- physics_fun
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Graduate Are gravitational waves bent by gravity?
- michelcolman
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Graduate Extreme case of relativitic momentum
- KFC
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Undergrad How to release energy in E=mc2?
- aaron35510
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Undergrad Need Book on Tensors: Recommendations for BS Math Holder
- LarryS
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Graduate When does Metric contain curved spacetime?
- Mad Dog
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Graduate Why is the speed of light exactly exactly 299 792 458 meters per second ?
- Strangerone
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Undergrad Having problems understanding Minskowski space.
- Peon666
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Graduate Does a gravitational field have any effect on mass?
- Crazy Tosser
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Graduate Interpreting Schwarzschild coordinates
- Mentz114
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Graduate Understanding maximally extended Schwarzschild solution
- Hurkyl
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Graduate Scale vs Balance: Investigating a Unique Gravity-Free Question
- Andy Resnick
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Graduate Ricci tensor along a Killing vector
- La Guinee
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Graduate Car & Garage Paradox: Solving the Mystery
- mkbh_10
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Undergrad Einstein vs Newton: Why Did Einstein Challenge Newton's View of Gravity?
- aaron35510
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Graduate Why does gravitational time dilation give infinite time inside black holes?
- aaron35510
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Graduate If speed of light isn't a constant
- sganesh88
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Graduate Could Galileo have discovered Sepcial Relativity?
- debra
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Graduate Naked singularities, and Hawking
- JustinLevy
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Graduate How Does Curvature Affect Velocity Near a Black Hole's Event Horizon?
- stevebd1
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Graduate Gravity Wave Detection: Why Not Attempt in Lab?
- HarryWertM
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Graduate Lorentz transformations, time intervals and lengths
- bernhard.rothenstein
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Undergrad What is the nature of gravity constant?
- freesom
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Undergrad Will Gravity Affect the Speed of Rockets Traveling Parallel to Each Other?
- sirsmokealot
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Undergrad Relativistic mass and the speed of light limit
- feynmann
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Undergrad Relativistic Mass: Definition & Explanation
- Charlie G
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Graduate Is Poincare Symmetry Fundamental to Relativity as Proposed by Einstein?
- bernhard.rothenstein
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Graduate Few concepts that I miss in SR
- Heimdall
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Graduate Question regarding determinism
- Gothican
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Graduate How Does Radial Redshift Affect the Energy of Light?
- nutgeb
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High School Does Light Regain Its Original Speed After Slowing Down?
- ChrisPeace
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Graduate Why does only one object feel accelerated?
- Ascenxion
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Undergrad How Does Einstein's Theory Explain Time Dilation in Gravitational Fields?
- Bjarne
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Graduate Do clocks remain synchronized forever according to the equivalence principle?
- Bob Walance
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Graduate Is Einstein's Idiots a Legitimate Challenge to Relativity?
- QuantumLove
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Graduate Rank and Weight of a Riemann Curvature Tensor
- Jack3145
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High School What has the speed of light got to do with time travel?
- sammy8761
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Graduate Schwarzschild solution radial coordinate and black holes
- Jonathan Scott
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Graduate Why Use the Tetrad Formalism in General Relativity?
- pellman
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Graduate What Makes Charged Black Holes Different from Uncharged Ones?
- Dmitry67
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Undergrad General Relativity and the Human Body
- Kindayr
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Graduate Ricci Tensor from Schwarzschild Metric
- Philosophaie
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Graduate Accelerated obserevers in special (not general) theory of relativity
- Nedeljko
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Graduate Mathpages.com Reflections on Relativity
- Al68
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Graduate Why are coordinate transformations central to general relativity?
- Mad Dog
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Graduate Einstein or Einstein-Cartan?
- Dmitry67
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Graduate Can a Gravity Wave be detected at a point ?
- WarpedWatch
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Graduate Are Massless Charged Particles Forbidden by Current Group Theory Theories?
- FunkyDwarf
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Graduate Gravitational Waves: Constant Motion Through Spacetime
- tonyb1969
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Graduate M/M experiment is not explained by Special Rel.
- ericqb
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Graduate Is Gravity a Force of Attraction or a Result of an Expanding Universe?
- loafula
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Graduate Practical calculations for gravity
- michelcolman
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Graduate Pre-requisites to study Relativity?
- Peon666
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Graduate Is the shape of a light cone affected by gravitational forces?
- dkgolfer16
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Undergrad Time relative to someone moving at a high speed-equations for a layman?
- DyslexicHobo
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Graduate Speed of a particle inside an event horizon
- La Guinee
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Graduate Confuse about the relativistic effect
- KFC
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Graduate Time stopped for a photon travelling at the speed of light?
- mildpiranha
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Graduate Which twin is younger in a spaceship race at 0.8c?
- daytripper
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Graduate What Do Lorentz Transformations and My Elementary Theory Share in Common?
- rell
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Undergrad Understanding Gravitational Energy in Motion
- Naty1
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Graduate Gravitational vs Inertial Mass
- Naty1
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Graduate Time Dilation in Special and General Relativity: An Interconnected Relationship?
- bassplayer142
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Graduate SR Doppler Redshift & SR Time Dilation
- nutgeb
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High School Car as fast as the speed of light
- mildpiranha
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High School Looking for Layman's Physical Explanation for Gravitational Time Dilation
- stuper
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Graduate Questions about gravity and curved space
- corvetteguy
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Graduate Is Mach's Principle incorporated into General Relativity?
- WCOLtd
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Graduate Is relativistic effect of length contraction physically unreal ?
- feynmann
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