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Graduate Can a Charged, Accelerating Black Hole Radiate Photons?
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Graduate Why Is the Schwarzschild Solution Considered Spatially Symmetric?
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Graduate Understanding Einstein's Law of Gravitation in Empty Space
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Position of a ship in a new dimension
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Graduate Consistency of the speed of light
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Graduate Energy momentum tensor of a scalar field by varying the metric
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Graduate Does light truly have no reference frame?
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Graduate Another question about photon perspective, concerning entanglement
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Graduate The Gauss Bonnet Lagrangian and the conserved current
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Graduate What is the correct understanding of the ct dimension?
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Graduate What is the solution to the paradox of relativistic mass increase?
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Graduate What Causes the Paradox of Aging in Time Dilation?
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Faster than the speed of light
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Graduate Events and how they are percieved.
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Graduate Naked Singularities: Questions on Fund. Particles as Black Holes
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Graduate A bench-top test of special relativity ?
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Graduate Question on Effective Potential
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Graduate EP Violation: Asynchronous Relativity & Stressed Bodies
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Undergrad Deriving Law of Conservation of Energy from E=MC2
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Graduate Can Lorentz transformations determine the middle point on a photon's worldline?
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How Thick is Space If It's Flat?
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Graduate 4-velocity, the mass shell and potential energy
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Graduate Geodesic Paths in Spacetime: How Mass and Velocity Affect the Curvature
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Undergrad Thought experiment on potential energy
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Graduate Wave equation in curved spacetime
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Graduate Photon Inertial Mass: Zero Rest Mass?
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Graduate How Does Time Dilation Affect Clocks in Different Frames of Reference?
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Graduate Is there a limiting speed for particles due to energy loss in acceleration?
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Graduate Object Falling into a Black Hole: What Happens?
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Graduate Accelerating Twice: Astronaut Achieves .99999c in Nuclear Ship
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Undergrad How does the speed of light affect the rotation of a disc?
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Who is the author of mathpages.com?
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Graduate Why is the 3 momentum represented with a negative sign in the 4-vector?
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Graduate Is Time Travel Possible and What Are Its Implications?
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Graduate How does an object know that it is in motion?
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Undergrad Creating a Common Frame of Reference for Remote Astronauts
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Graduate What happens to the pythagorean theorem in a non-euclidean space?
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Graduate Equivalence principle & nonlinearity
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Graduate My response to an anti-relativist
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Graduate Why is ct used as the fourth dimension in Special Relativity?
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Undergrad Can Anything Travel Faster Than the Speed of Light?
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Graduate Is special relativity just an illusion of time and space?
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Graduate The stress energy tensor again
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Graduate What is the explanation for the null result in the Trouton-Noble experiment?
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Graduate Relativity Revisited: Flora Lopis & Max Tegmark (MIT)
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Graduate What is the Flaw in Applying the Lorentz Factor to Time Dilation?
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Graduate Where does the energy loss from redshifted photons go?
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Undergrad Atomic clocks & general relativity
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Graduate T of t' and x of x' with respect to S
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Graduate Can Time Dilation Be Used to Identify a Moving Frame of Reference?
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Graduate Traveling into the future in order to travel back into the past
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Undergrad Can You Take a Photo of Something Traveling at Light Speed?
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Graduate The Lorentz Group in General Relativity
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Undergrad Is Time Dilation Only About Velocity and Massive Objects?
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Graduate What Phenomenon Causes Light to Change Direction Near a Black Hole?
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Graduate Can energy be converted into mass?
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Graduate Can Photons Orbit in Flat Spacetime?
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Graduate Lorentz Transformation via Rotation
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Graduate Does General Relativity Suggest a Younger Age for a Free-Falling Twin?
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Graduate Negative Rest Mass: Faster than Light?
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Graduate What is the Name of the Four-Vector with p-eA?
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Graduate Negative Mass: Possibility of FTL Travel?
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Undergrad Experiments in a revolving satellite
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Graduate How to measure absolute velocity
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Graduate Mass transfer between black holes
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Graduate Is the Universe Limited or Infinite? Exploring the Debate
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Undergrad Born Rigid Motion - references
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Graduate Lorentz invariance and General Coordinate transformations
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Graduate Clock Synchronisation in Stationary and Accelerated Frames
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Graduate How Does Gravity Influence Spacetime and Time Dilation?
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Graduate Are Scaled and Summed Four-Vectors Still Four-Vectors?
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Graduate Q: Special Relativity: Moving Light w/ Mass & Reference Frames
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Undergrad Twin Paradox: Jerry vs Tom's Time Dilation
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Undergrad A question on special relativity
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Graduate Is the Speed of Light Really Slowing Down?
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Undergrad Bending of Light: Other Observations Beyond Eddington
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Graduate Ehrenfest Paradox: Explained in Simple Terms
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Graduate Does GR say anything about solid angle deficit?
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Graduate Momentum in the time direction
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Undergrad Is Light's Gravity Influenced by Other Light?
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Graduate How Does Relative Motion Affect Time Measurement in Different Reference Frames?
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Graduate Is there a peak in the center of a GR space-time well?
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Undergrad Does E=mc² fully account for an object's total energy including kinetic energy?
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Graduate Energy, Heat & Speed: A Physics Q&A
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Would Hitting a Micro Black Hole with Your Hand Create a Hole?
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Undergrad Are Photons Massless But Still Have Momentum?
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Graduate Questioning Zero Reference and the Expansion of the Universe
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Graduate Light Speed Travel and Causality
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Graduate Size of Black Hole: Swallow 1.5m x 3.585m x 20cm?
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Graduate What Defines the Coefficient of Restitution in Relativistic Collisions?
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Graduate Not to defend Phrak, but i have a related question
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Graduate Length contraction v. time dilation
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Graduate How Do New Space-Time Coordinate Transformations Impact Clock Synchronization?
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Graduate More Spacecraft Velocity Anomalies
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Graduate A question regarding length contraction
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Graduate Unifying Gravity and Time: Insights from General Relativity & Quantum Mechanics
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Graduate ModifiedGravity.htmlWhat are the limitations of General Relativity?
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Graduate Crossing Event Horizon of Black Hole: What Happens?
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Graduate How Does a Clock Measure Time?
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Graduate Is Time Dilation a Result of Matter's Intrinsic Motion?
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