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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?
- jefswat
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Graduate Spacetime - infinite or expanding?
- daytripper
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Graduate Where to find solved problems on relativistic kinematics and dynamics?
- univers
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Graduate Can Geodesics Cross in General Relativity?
- mtak0114
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Graduate Twin paradox: telling who accelerates (why isn't it arbitrary?)
- Confusedent
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High School Does E=MC2 Determine a Body's Gravity?
- chis
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High School Is Stopping Time Truly Impossible?
- LockeJ
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Graduate How Does Gravity Influence Time in Our Universe?
- chis
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Graduate Is There a Limit to How Much Space-Time Can Curve?
- Crazy Tosser
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Graduate G_ab: Calculating a Corrected Value
- Philosophaie
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Graduate Rigid bodies in special & general relativity
- atyy
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Graduate Amplified frame-dragging effects due to superconductors?
- taitae25
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Undergrad Do Massive Objects Float Above or Rest on the Fabric of Space?
- ChrisPeace
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Graduate Nonstandard relativistic dynamics
- bernhard.rothenstein
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Graduate Is relativistic effect of length contraction physically real ?
- kahoomann
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Graduate Questions about the Velocity of Light
- Xray
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Graduate Special Relativity, Question on C and Time Dilation
- iRish_waKe
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Undergrad Can someone explain equivalence of gravity and inertia?
- Crazy Tosser
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Undergrad Quantum Gravity in Relation to Gravitational Waves
- Ignoramus
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Graduate Can a black hole predict its own growth before it happens?
- lzkelley
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Undergrad Space and time. What I dont know but would like to
- Fiction
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Graduate Temperature of fast objects decreases?
- Crazy Tosser
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Graduate Quantifying Negative Energy from Entropy
- MuggsMcGinnis
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Undergrad Can any one explain me about the bigbang singularity
- satyaraj
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Graduate Spacetime Immutability: Is it True?
- alphachapmtl
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Graduate Understanding the Ricci and Riemann Curvature Tensors in Tensor Calculus
- Jack3145
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Graduate What Gives a Motionless Meteorite Shard Momentum in the Curvature of the Sun?
- Chaste
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Graduate Curl added to the spacetime metric.
- David S.W
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Graduate Hard time grasping the concept of the Geodesic
- Philosophaie
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Graduate Non Twin Spaceflight Time Dilation
- Austin0
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Graduate Exploring the Motion and Dimensions of Light in General Relativity Theory
- Lyuokdea
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Graduate How are tensors transformed in non-linear coordinate systems?
- JustinLevy
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Graduate Light propagation in a moving train frame
- KFC
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Graduate What Limits Light-Speed in Space-Time Theory?
- Crazy Tosser
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Graduate Gravitational time dilation explanation for Newtonian gravity?
- feynmann
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Graduate Time Travel in Special Relativity
- yinfudan
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Graduate How does gravity curve spacetime?
- Naty1
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Graduate Does the Earth's Rotation Affect Time Dilation in Einstein's Twin Paradox?
- poeteye
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Graduate Hubble Redshift: New Paper on Its Implications
- Crothers
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Graduate Symplectic mechanics - elementary particles
- nughret
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Graduate Best name for the length of a moving rod measured by a stationary observer
- bernhard.rothenstein
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High School Matter Defined: Mass, Volume & Time? Unit Ideas?
- nuby
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Graduate Is there any exp. evid that massless photons cuves spacetime?
- ensabah6
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Graduate Universe Expansion: Is There a Formula for Space Creation?
- ddelbourgo
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Graduate Tension in space in Newtonian gravity
- Jonathan Scott
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Undergrad Warping of Space-time, Confusion about the illustration
- TMulhall
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Graduate Could I really be as massive as the entire universe?
- p.tryon
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Graduate Is the Equivalence Principle Contradictory in General Relativity?
- JustinLevy
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Graduate Simple math question regarding Lorentz Invariance
- JustinLevy
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Graduate Negative Mass: Fact or Fiction?
- cam875
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Graduate Time in a Vacuum: Does it Exist? | Tim
- daytripper
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Graduate Derivation of Gamma: Is it Correct?
- epkid08
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Graduate Is General Relativity Exclusively a Macroscopic Theory?
- laserblue
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Graduate My First ST Diagram: Testing SR Understanding
- Saw
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Graduate How the last part relative to the azimuthal angle works
- stevebd1
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Graduate Why the Six Generators of the Restrict Lorentz Group
- martyf
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Graduate Why is the sign of p^0 invariant for orthochronous Lorentz transformations?
- astros
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Graduate Explaining the Blue Shift in Terms of the Strong Equivalence Principle
- latentcorpse
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Graduate Prove Chern-Simons Dispersion Relation | Carrol, Field, Jackiw
- zwicky
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Graduate Can Satellites Measure Earth's Geode Using Velocity Instead of Position?
- dodo
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Graduate Angular Momentum and the speed of light
- bassplayer142
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Graduate Physical law from experimental data
- bernhard.rothenstein
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Graduate Why Do Square and Rhombus Grids in Spacetime Diagrams Have Equal Areas?
- yinfudan
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Undergrad Current Applications of the Theory of Relativity?
- Iaool
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Graduate What would happen if you tossed one end of a wormhole into the other end?
- Meatbot
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Graduate Why does the photon bounce vertically in the light-clock?
- Saw
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Graduate Understanding Time Dilation in Relativity: An Example
- squeeky100
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Graduate Idiot trying to grasp relativity with a couple questions
- flea77
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Graduate Newton's Third Law and Relativity
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Graduate Would Einstein Object? The Lorentz Transformations
- bernhard.rothenstein
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Graduate Inertial frames vs velocity vectors
- Vanir
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Graduate Electromagnetic spacetime curvature effects
- Naty1
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Graduate What is the exact physical extent of a black hole singularity?
- nutgeb
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High School Schwarzschild Radius and gravitational constant
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Undergrad Relativity, speed of light and stuff
- ricmat
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Graduate Is an isometry always a statement about the principle of covariance?
- quasar_4
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Graduate Does electrical-magnetic fields curve spacetime?
- ensabah6
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Undergrad My Problem Understanding Special Relativity
- DaveShepherd
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Graduate Why does the twin paradox seem to imply an aether?
- A-wal
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Undergrad Do we also travel at a fixed velocity?
- The_Thinker
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Graduate Lorentz Transformations: Understanding and Deriving Acceleration Expressions
- univers
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Undergrad Understanding Michelson-Morley Experiment
- Odai
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Graduate Why does stress-energy tensor change between reference frames?
- Jitu18
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Graduate Universe Expanding: Forces That Speed & Slow It Down
- dkgolfer16
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Graduate Search for a correct explanation
- DaTario
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Graduate One-parameter family of metrics
- mach4
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Graduate Lorentz contraction of box filled with gas
- Xeinstein
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Graduate Tensors of Relativity: Inner vs Outer Indices
- praharmitra
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Graduate How Does Relativistic Doppler Effect Impact Perception in Space Travel?
- sodaMay
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Graduate Relativity fails with quantum particles?
- PeterNoodles
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Graduate Moving faster but taking longer
- gonegahgah
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High School Why is Gravity on Earth but Not in Space?
- 5thElement
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Undergrad What Happens to Time If the Rotation of Planets Stops?
- Peon666
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Graduate External clock synchronization and sbsolute motion
- bernhard.rothenstein
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Graduate Is gravitomagnetism only frame-dependent, not real frame-dragging?
- tiny-tim
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Graduate Gravitational Force: Position Formula for Object Attracted
- disregardthat
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Graduate Rotating a laser beam faster than light?
- sinebar
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Graduate What is the relationship between energy and speed in a Schwarzschild geometry?
- stephenmitten
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Graduate Understanding Time Dilation: Explaining the Twin Paradox in Special Relativity
- Continuum
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