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Graduate Relativistic collision and max energy
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Graduate Andromeda paradox and empirical consequences
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Graduate Unifying Quantum and Relativity
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Graduate Understanding EM Stress Energy Tensor: Sources and Current Density
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Undergrad Vector drive - faster than light?
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Einstein's real importance to relativity theory
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Graduate Solving a Paradox of SR: A Rocket Collision Example
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Graduate Is Space More Like Fabric or Fluid?
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Graduate How can simultaneity and the constant speed of light stay coexist.
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Graduate Ether hypothesis and M/M Experiment not needed
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Graduate How does weight work in general relativity?
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Graduate How High Must A Tower Be To Break Earth's Gravity?
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Graduate What Are Christoffel Symbols and Their Types in General Relativity?
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Undergrad What is the true nature of gravity?
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Graduate Lorentz-FitzGerald Contraction
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Graduate Measuring curvature with parallel transport
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Graduate A fast fly hits a train and then ?
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Graduate How is the increase in relativistic mass determined in particle collisions?
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Graduate Partial derivative as a vector
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Graduate Communication with no time boundaries?
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Graduate What Causes Time Dilation in the Twin Paradox?
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Graduate The one-form basis and contraction
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Undergrad How is Time Dilation Possible in Front of Me?
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Graduate Optical effects of special relativity
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Graduate How is general relativity cast as a gauge theory?
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Undergrad Speed of light c = 0 Km/s. Not 300K, but a big, fat zero Km/sec
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Graduate Will a Photon Launched Perpendicular to a Point Source Mass Ever Return?
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High School How does light travel so fast?
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Graduate Acceleration and Curvature of space-time
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Graduate Geometry of Space as a Function of Time: Time Dilation & GR
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Graduate What is the relationship between the metric tensor and spacetime?
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Undergrad Did the Apollo Missions Use an Atomic Clock for Time Dilation Experiments?
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Graduate Can We Theoretically Travel Faster Than Light?
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Graduate Calculating Particle Decay in a Magnetic Field
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Graduate Covariant vs. contravariant time component
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Graduate Does relativity apply to a coordinate system moving with a photon?
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Graduate Length contraction depends on the distance of the object?
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Graduate Calculation of the black hole horizon's surface
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Graduate Understanding the Metric Tensor and its dx's in Space-Time
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Graduate What determines who feels the time dilation?
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Graduate Breakedown of common sense and inertial ccordinate systems
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Undergrad Affect of gravity instant or not?
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Graduate Travelling near the speed of light
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Graduate Where did General Relativity Come From
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Graduate Why do objects follow curved paths in spacetime without the presence of gravity?
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Graduate Crossing the event horizon of a black hole
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Graduate Ive been reading ON THE ELECTRODYNAMICS
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Graduate Can Black Holes Enable Faster-Than-Light Travel?
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Undergrad Traveling 10 Lightyears at 75% Speed - Time & Average Speed
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Graduate Paradoxes if instantaneous signals
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Undergrad Long Bar and the Speed of Light
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Graduate Accelerated coordinate systems
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Graduate Quantum Field Theory - Charged Field
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Graduate Twin paradox and time dilation.
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Graduate What happens to the energy when accelerating an object at lightspeed?
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Graduate Is the Woodward Effect the key to propellant-less propulsion?
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High School Space-Time Disturbance: What Is It?
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Undergrad Millenium falcon firing a laser
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Graduate Could you pull someone out of a black hole?
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Graduate Event Horizon and Light Exit Cone Question
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Undergrad Understanding the Relative Aging Equation for High Speeds: Explained Simply
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Graduate Understanding Proper Acceleration and Four-Acceleration in Special Relativity
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Graduate Why the Galileo transformations are not correct for inertial systems
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Graduate Time dilation related questions
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Graduate Formula for the acceleration felt by an accelerating object?
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Graduate Lorentz transformation in non-inertial frame
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Graduate Artificial gravity in spinning space ship conumdrum
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Graduate Is Null Physics the Key to Understanding a Balanced Universe?
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Graduate Can a pole traveling at 0.88c fit inside a 2 light year long garage?
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Graduate Is Gravitational Time Dilation Proportional to Relative Motion Time Dilation?
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Graduate Why Does Gravity Exist and What Are Gravitons?
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Graduate What happens before crossing the Event Horizon
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Undergrad What is the principle behind Michelson interferometer?
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Graduate Understanding Relativity: Observer Perspectives on Time and Distance
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Graduate Is the speed of one beam in the LHC nearly twice that of the other?
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Graduate Can Newtonian Cosmology Emerge from FRW and Oppenheimer-Snyder Frameworks?
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Graduate Proper acceleration and g-forces
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Graduate According to Alice's frame of reference
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Graduate Can the speed of light be exceeded by relative velocities?
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Graduate Deriving Special Relativity: Force, Acceleration, and Velocity
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Graduate Do Moving Reference Frames Affect Event Timing in Special Relativity?
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Graduate Difficulty with imagine ( MM experiment)
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Graduate Time-reverse symmetry of the principle of relativity
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Graduate Continuity equation from Stress-Energy tensor
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Graduate Why does gravity not end at the event horizon?
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Graduate Tangential Velocity, Frames, and the Speed of Light
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Graduate Understanding the Relative vs Absolute Nature of Energy Conservation
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Graduate Apparent distances as seen from within Schwarzschild solution
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Undergrad Why Did the Michelson-Morley Experiment Assume Aether Has a Constant Velocity?
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Graduate Relativistic length, 2 viewpoints
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Graduate What is the problem with my energy calculation in STR?
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Graduate Minkowski Spacetime: Exploring General Relativity
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Graduate Is there a limit on real inertial frames?
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Graduate Wien's law in relativistic frame
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Undergrad Where do gravitational field lines originate from?
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Graduate Relative Motion and Time Dependance on Velocity of Light
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High School Does Light Really Have Mass?
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Graduate Mass, Gravity, Spacetime and everything
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Graduate Constructing Local Lorentz Frames in Curved Spacetime
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Graduate Questions about MTW Brick: Page 29, 101, 142
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