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Undergrad What Causes Time Dilation and Why Does Mass Increase Near Light Speed?
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Graduate Kerr metric hydrostatic equilibrium
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Undergrad What Is the Principle of Equivalence?
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Undergrad Ready to Explore the Updated Edition of Black Holes?
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Graduate Is there a good introduction to Hawking Radiation?
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Graduate When are two spacetimes the same
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Graduate Question about length contraction
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Graduate Gravitational lensing and diffraction patterns
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Graduate Inertia and relativistic mass.
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Graduate Questions deriving from the Principle of Equivalence
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Graduate The Twins Paradox in curved spacetime
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Graduate Rest Energy Concept: What Does it Mean?
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Graduate Actual mechanics behind gravity
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Graduate Understanding Gravitational Waves and Their Impact on Entropy
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Graduate What Causes Clocks to Appear Unsynchronized in Different Frames of Reference?
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Graduate Conceptual basis for a non-relative rest frame
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Graduate Question on gravity at the center of the earth
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Graduate Black holes and whether General Relativity views light as a ballistic particle?
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Graduate Suppose the gravitation has very very tiny deviation from inverse square law……
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Graduate Is Gravity a Force? Debate & Questions
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Graduate Help me visualize this, boundary of the future
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Graduate Could Gravity and the Strong Force Be the Same Phenomenon at Different Scales?
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Graduate How Does Light Speed Affect Signal Transmission Between Moving Objects in Space?
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Graduate Gravity Hysteresis: Effects & Implications
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Undergrad Will clocks in space show the same time after slowing down?
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Graduate Lorentz Transformation without length?
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Graduate Resource that gives classical limit solution
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Graduate Does time stop at the speed of light?
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Graduate The photon and Electromagnetic field
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Graduate How fast must a magnet go to make visible light?
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Graduate New Theory of Space: How Does Dynamic Space Relate to Relativity?
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Graduate Edwards, Tangherlini, Selleri transformations and their inverse
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Graduate Do Rotating Bodies Near Light Speed Exhibit Relativistic Effects?
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Graduate Galaxy rotation and light bending
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Einstein: list of publications
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Graduate Light with Gravity and Mirrors
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Graduate Is Time an Illusion? Opinions on Brian Greene's 'Fabric of the Cosmos
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Graduate Laser traveling near of a supermassive body
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Graduate What Is the Relativistic Mass of a Photon and Its Implications?
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Graduate What Defines an Inertial Frame in Physics?
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Graduate Electrostatic effect of a current carrying conductor
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Graduate Observable physical quantity in relativity
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Undergrad What can be the speed of transmitting information?
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Graduate Unraveling the Mysteries of Time: From Black Holes to Quantum Gravity
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Graduate Uncovering the Mystery of Centrifugal Forces: Hafele and Keating Experiment
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Graduate Black holes & hawking radiation
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Graduate Directional covariant derivative
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Graduate Photon Velocity and Pythagorean Theorem
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Graduate Proof of invariance of dp1*dp2*dp3/E
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Graduate Is True Time the Key to Understanding Light Speed and Relativity?
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Undergrad Ideas for small special relativity wiki-page
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Graduate Trouble following the derivation of Scott and Viner 1965
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Graduate GR and the role of the graviton
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Graduate What Does Curved Space Really Look Like? A Visual Guide to General Relativity
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Graduate Velocity of laser light pt. on moon > c ?
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Graduate What is the resolution to the lighthouse paradox?
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Graduate What is the energy here refers to?
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Graduate Question: Spin particles in scalar gravitational field
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Graduate Coordinate Systems in Modern Interpretation of Relativity
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Graduate Test problems in mechanics and special relativity
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Graduate How Can We Accurately Predict the Moon's Position Despite Quantum Uncertainty?
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Graduate Proper Time For Photon on Null Geodesic
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Graduate How to reduce Rindler metric to falt one
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Graduate Maxwell's Equations and Path of light & Gravitational wave
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Undergrad Is Time Travel Possible with a Device That Slows Down Time?
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Graduate What If the Speed of Light Varied: Implications for Our Universe?
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Graduate The Nature of length contraction
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Graduate Special Relativity and Reference Frames
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Graduate From special relativity to the classical one
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Graduate Anisotropy of Space: Implications for Lorentz Invariance and Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate Vacuum solution with nonzero cosmological constant
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Graduate The upward force in General Relativity
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Graduate Physical interpretation of spacetime curvature?
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Graduate Researching Authors Who Have Explored Light Being Static
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Undergrad The inherent symmetry of time dilation
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Graduate How Does Stopping a Train Realign Differing Time Perceptions in Relativity?
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Graduate Can Gravitons Escape From a Black Hole if Light Cannot?
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Undergrad Why, why, why, Mr. Anderson, WHY?
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Undergrad How Does Mass Relate to Time in Physics?
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Graduate Equivalence principle & accelerated charge
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Graduate Stokes theorem under covariant derivaties?
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Graduate How Does Time Dilation Affect Perception of Speed in Relativity?
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Graduate Birkhoff's Theorem: Schwarzschild Metric Unique Solution?
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Graduate Alternate derivation of general relativity
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Graduate Twin Paradox: Einstein's Explanation and Alternative Interpretations
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Graduate Tensors and differential geometry
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Graduate How to calculate relative velocity in SR
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Graduate Explaining Time Dilation and the Universe
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Undergrad When the speed of an object becomes equal to the speed of light
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Graduate Time Dilation: Slower vs. Faster at v=c?
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Graduate Does Nuclear Reaction Energy Contribute to the Existence of Infinity?
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Graduate What is General Relativity and How Does it Work?
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Graduate Four momentum of Photon in Center of Mass frame?
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Undergrad Analyzing E=MC2: What Does Energy Have to Do with Distance?
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Graduate Are electrical fields affected by gravity?
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Graduate What will happen to a body that is not moving at all?
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Graduate Is it possible to experience the same event twice?
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Graduate What does a rod passing through a hole look like in the inertial frame?
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Graduate Equivalence principle and Acceleration
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Graduate Poincaré on the constancy of light
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