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Graduate Is Einstein's Idiots a Legitimate Challenge to Relativity?
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Graduate Rank and Weight of a Riemann Curvature Tensor
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High School What has the speed of light got to do with time travel?
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Graduate Schwarzschild solution radial coordinate and black holes
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Graduate Why Use the Tetrad Formalism in General Relativity?
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Graduate What Makes Charged Black Holes Different from Uncharged Ones?
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Undergrad General Relativity and the Human Body
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Graduate Ricci Tensor from Schwarzschild Metric
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Graduate Accelerated obserevers in special (not general) theory of relativity
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Graduate Mathpages.com Reflections on Relativity
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Graduate Coordinate Transformations in GR
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Graduate Einstein or Einstein-Cartan?
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Graduate Can a Gravity Wave be detected at a point ?
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Graduate Are Massless Charged Particles Forbidden by Current Group Theory Theories?
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Graduate Gravitational Waves: Constant Motion Through Spacetime
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Graduate M/M experiment is not explained by Special Rel.
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Graduate Is Gravity a Force of Attraction or a Result of an Expanding Universe?
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Graduate Practical calculations for gravity
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Graduate Pre-requisites to study Relativity?
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Graduate Is the shape of a light cone affected by gravitational forces?
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Undergrad Time relative to someone moving at a high speed-equations for a layman?
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Graduate Speed of a particle inside an event horizon
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Graduate Confuse about the relativistic effect
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Graduate Time stopped for a photon travelling at the speed of light?
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Graduate Which twin is younger in a spaceship race at 0.8c?
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Graduate What Do Lorentz Transformations and My Elementary Theory Share in Common?
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Undergrad Understanding Gravitational Energy in Motion
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Graduate Gravitational vs Inertial Mass
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Graduate Time Dilation in Special and General Relativity: An Interconnected Relationship?
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Graduate SR Doppler Redshift & SR Time Dilation
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High School Car as fast as the speed of light
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High School Looking for Layman's Physical Explanation for Gravitational Time Dilation
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Graduate Questions about gravity and curved space
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Graduate Is Mach's Principle incorporated into General Relativity?
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Graduate Is relativistic effect of length contraction physically unreal ?
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Graduate What Are the Latest Precision Tests of the Inverse Square Law for Gravity?
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Graduate Are All Particles Actually Naked Black Holes?
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Undergrad Gravity: Sun Moves 10 Miles - Effects on Earth?
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Graduate Spacetime - infinite or expanding?
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Graduate Modern Physics Exam: Difficulties Solving Problems? Get Help Here!
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Graduate Can Geodesics Cross in General Relativity?
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Graduate Twin paradox: telling who accelerates (why isn't it arbitrary?)
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High School Does E=MC2 Determine a Body's Gravity?
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High School Is Stopping Time Truly Impossible?
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Graduate How Does Gravity Influence Time in Our Universe?
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Graduate Is There a Limit to How Much Space-Time Can Curve?
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Graduate G_ab: Calculating a Corrected Value
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Graduate Rigid bodies in special & general relativity
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Graduate Amplified frame-dragging effects due to superconductors?
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Undergrad Do Massive Objects Float Above or Rest on the Fabric of Space?
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Graduate Nonstandard relativistic dynamics
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Graduate Is relativistic effect of length contraction physically real ?
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Graduate Questions about the Velocity of Light
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Graduate Special Relativity, Question on C and Time Dilation
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Undergrad Can someone explain equivalence of gravity and inertia?
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Undergrad Quantum Gravity in Relation to Gravitational Waves
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Graduate Can a black hole predict its own growth before it happens?
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Undergrad Space and time. What I dont know but would like to
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Graduate Temperature of fast objects decreases?
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Graduate Quantifying Negative Energy from Entropy
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Undergrad Can any one explain me about the bigbang singularity
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Graduate Spacetime Immutability: Is it True?
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Graduate Understanding the Ricci and Riemann Curvature Tensors in Tensor Calculus
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Graduate What Gives a Motionless Meteorite Shard Momentum in the Curvature of the Sun?
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Graduate Curl added to the spacetime metric.
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Graduate Hard time grasping the concept of the Geodesic
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Graduate Non Twin Spaceflight Time Dilation
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Graduate Exploring the Motion and Dimensions of Light in General Relativity Theory
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Graduate How are tensors transformed in non-linear coordinate systems?
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Graduate Trying to understand relativity
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Graduate What Limits Light-Speed in Space-Time Theory?
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Graduate Gravitational time dilation explanation for Newtonian gravity?
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Graduate Time Travel in Special Relativity
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Graduate How does gravity curve spacetime?
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Graduate Does the Earth's Rotation Affect Time Dilation in Einstein's Twin Paradox?
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Graduate Hubble Redshift: New Paper on Its Implications
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Graduate Symplectic mechanics - elementary particles
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Graduate Best name for the length of a moving rod measured by a stationary observer
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High School Matter Defined: Mass, Volume & Time? Unit Ideas?
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Graduate Is there any exp. evid that massless photons cuves spacetime?
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Graduate Universe Expansion: Is There a Formula for Space Creation?
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Graduate Tension in space in Newtonian gravity
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Undergrad Warping of Space-time, Confusion about the illustration
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Graduate Could I really be as massive as the entire universe?
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Graduate Is the Equivalence Principle Contradictory in General Relativity?
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Graduate Simple math question regarding Lorentz Invariance
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Graduate Negative Mass: Fact or Fiction?
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Graduate Time in a Vacuum: Does it Exist? | Tim
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Graduate Derivation of Gamma: Is it Correct?
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Graduate Is General Relativity Exclusively a Macroscopic Theory?
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Graduate My First ST Diagram: Testing SR Understanding
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Graduate How the last part relative to the azimuthal angle works
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Graduate Why the Six Generators of the Restrict Lorentz Group
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Graduate Why is the sign of p^0 invariant for orthochronous Lorentz transformations?
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Graduate Explaining the Blue Shift in Terms of the Strong Equivalence Principle
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Graduate Prove Chern-Simons Dispersion Relation | Carrol, Field, Jackiw
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Graduate Can Satellites Measure Earth's Geode Using Velocity Instead of Position?
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Graduate Angular Momentum and the speed of light
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Graduate Physical law from experimental data
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Graduate Why Do Square and Rhombus Grids in Spacetime Diagrams Have Equal Areas?
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