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Undergrad Current Applications of the Theory of Relativity?
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Graduate What would happen if you tossed one end of a wormhole into the other end?
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Graduate Why does the photon bounce vertically in the light-clock?
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Graduate Understanding Time Dilation in Relativity: An Example
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Graduate Idiot trying to grasp relativity with a couple questions
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Graduate Newton's Third Law and Relativity
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Graduate Would Einstein Object? The Lorentz Transformations
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Graduate Inertial frames vs velocity vectors
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Graduate Electromagnetic spacetime curvature effects
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Graduate What is the exact physical extent of a black hole singularity?
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High School Schwarzschild Radius and gravitational constant
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Undergrad Relativity, speed of light and stuff
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Graduate Is an isometry always a statement about the principle of covariance?
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Graduate Does electrical-magnetic fields curve spacetime?
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Undergrad My Problem Understanding Special Relativity
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Graduate Understanding special relativity
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Undergrad Do we also travel at a fixed velocity?
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Graduate Lorentz Transformations: Understanding and Deriving Acceleration Expressions
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Undergrad Understanding Michelson-Morley Experiment
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Graduate Help with Stress Tensor: Local vs Other Observers
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Graduate Universe Expanding: Forces That Speed & Slow It Down
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Graduate Search for a correct explanation
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Graduate One-parameter family of metrics
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Graduate Lorentz contraction of box filled with gas
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Graduate Tensors of Relativity: Inner vs Outer Indices
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Graduate How Does Relativistic Doppler Effect Impact Perception in Space Travel?
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Graduate Relativity fails with quantum particles?
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Graduate Moving faster but taking longer
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High School Why is Gravity on Earth but Not in Space?
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Undergrad What Happens to Time If the Rotation of Planets Stops?
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Graduate External clock synchronization and sbsolute motion
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Graduate Gravitomagnetism … is wikipedia wrong?
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Graduate Gravitational Force: Position Formula for Object Attracted
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Graduate Rotating a laser beam faster than light?
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Graduate What is the relationship between energy and speed in a Schwarzschild geometry?
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Graduate Understanding Time Dilation: Explaining the Twin Paradox in Special Relativity
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Graduate Can gravity creating by energy?
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Graduate Is a reference frame fixed to a photon an Inertial Frame?
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Graduate Does Light Have Advanced Knowledge of Denser Mediums Along Its Path?
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Graduate GR - Gravity versus light - acceleration of light?
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Graduate Is light everywhere at once when traveling at the speed of light?
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Graduate Universal Reference Point question
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Graduate Contradiction in special relativity?
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Graduate What is Linear Frame Dragging in General Relativity?
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Graduate Relativistic momentum and photons
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Graduate Is There Still Interest in Aether Theory?
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Graduate Age of universe and relativity
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Graduate Speed of light same as light speed?
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Graduate Acceleration up to lightspeed (From the inside)
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Graduate How does acceleration affect time dilation in Special Relativity?
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Graduate Testing Einstein's Theory: Examining Light Deviation by Gravity
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Graduate Does everything that has to do with velocity
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Graduate Exploring Relativistic Motion: Insights from Special and General Relativity
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Graduate Understanding Space Time Fabric: How Objects with Mass Affect Its Curvature
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Graduate After 103 years, Einstein's E=MC2 proved
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Graduate Derivation of Time Dilation and Length Contraction from Lorentz Transformation
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Graduate Why is there an 8 instead of a 4 in Einstein's gravity formulation?
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Graduate Effects of Space-Time Hypothetical Thought Experiment
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Graduate Questions about the Kretschmann curvature scalar
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Undergrad What is the figure of 6 years representing in resolving the Twin Paradox?
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Graduate Can kinetic energy impact the gravitational field of a system?
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Graduate Why can't an object move at the speed of light
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Graduate Can gravity carry information out of a black hole?
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Graduate Mach's Principle and General Relativity
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Graduate Math Proof for E=mc^2 | Find It Here
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Graduate How Does an Accelerating Observer Measure Light Velocity?
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Graduate Can a tachyon escape a black hole?
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Graduate Energy conservation in relativity
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Graduate Going from Acceleration to Constant Velocity
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High School Faster than light speed Comunications?
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Graduate Can the speed of light truly be constant from its origin of motion?
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Graduate Question about gravity and time
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Undergrad What Happens to Twin Ages in the Reverse Twin Paradox at .6c?
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Graduate Gravitomagnetism equations-wikipedia wrong?
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Graduate Near-Horizon Metric: Understanding Equation 4.2
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Graduate Decelerating at 1g into a black hole
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Graduate Dark Matter: Explaining the Unseen Observations
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Graduate Is Time Travel Physically Possible? Professional Advice
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Graduate Gravitational Waves and Potential
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Graduate How would the world appear at near c?
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Graduate Where can I find examples for solving equations of motion in Relativity?
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Graduate Extremal Kerr Black holes, and their associated temperature.
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Graduate Mass of a sphere of light - how pressure causes gravity
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Graduate Black Hole Parameters: Mass, Angular Momentum, Charge & More
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Graduate Stress-energy tensor and active mass
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Graduate Arbitrary Velocity C in Special Relativity
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Graduate Travelling on a photon towards earth
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Graduate Do Photons Perceive a Two-Dimensional Universe?
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Graduate Deriving the Velocity Addition Rule for Vector Addition in 2D Spacetime
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Graduate Why do heavier atoms experience relavistic effects(contraction)?
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Graduate Correcting Discrepancies in Schwarzschild Geodesic Equations
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Graduate Experiment: Gradient Colored Rod in Special Relativity
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High School Light Mass: Does Light Have Mass? Explained for 11th Grade
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Graduate What Happens in the Reverse Twins Paradox with Accelerated Motion?
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Graduate Is time dilation dependent on the observer's frame of reference?
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Graduate Conservation of tensor pressure terms
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Graduate Relative Relativistic Velocities
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Graduate Twin paradox and the nature of time?
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Graduate Do Gravitational Effects Impact Mass at a Distance in the Universe?
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Undergrad Discovering the Speed of Light: Michaelson-Morley Experiment and Variations
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