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Smolin's in depth perspective on Einstein, man and mind (NYRB)
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A question about a relativity light clock
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Time Dilation: An Explainer for Beginners
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Does Einstein's General Relativity need to be adjusted for the Higgs field?
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How Can Photons Have Momentum If They Have No Mass?
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Time Dilation Explained: Why Planes Lose Time
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How to survive in a black hole: Myth Debunked
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Understanding SR: The Relationship Between Speed, Time, and Space Explained
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Debunking Crackpot Theories on Special and General Relativity | calphysics.org
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Is Time Travel Physically Possible According to Einstein's Theories?
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Nothing can exceed the speed of light
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Uncovering the Metric Sign in Einstein's Equations
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Effects of Accelerating Point Mass on Orbital Dynamics
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What is a Cauchy surface and its significance in spacetime?
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Is Time a Constant Journey or a Fixed Point in Space?
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General Relativity: Comparing Newtonian and Einstein Circular Orbits
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Speed of light in the universe, experimental data
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About interpretations and logic
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Does the Sun Create Different Geodesics for Each Planet?
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Light, Elevators, and Gravity: A Confusing Experiment or Just Me?
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Does a black hole have a stress-energy tensor?
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How Does Newton's Second Law Adapt to Relativistic Speeds?
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Non-relativistic derivation of Schwarzschild's equation
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Does Light Exert a Force on Lasers?
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Is the speed of light really constant?
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Time as a function of distance for constant a
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Calculating distance between two points in potential
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Particle production in curved spacetime
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Conceptual Aspect of Relativity: Electric & Magnetic Forces
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Question on advance of perihelion.
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Static vs Stationary Spacetime Metric: Examples & Explained
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Physics Articles - Abstracts for SR and GR Papers
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Parametric equations for geodesics
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Time Dilation: Stationary vs. Moving Atomic Clocks
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Question about the weak field approximation
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Distance Travelled by B After Circumnavigating A: 2\pi r
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Electric Current in Special Relativity
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SR forbides BHs and GR demands them
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Professionally researched relativistic orbits
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Hi, can't find the way to debunk this
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Geodesics between two points ?
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Relativity in Film: A Resource Guide
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How Does Snell's Law Change in Curved Spacetime?
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Schwarzschild Orbits in Cartesian coordinates
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Question about the energy momentum tensor
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Connection of General relativity and geometric Refraction of light
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Vacuum Solutions: General Relativity Explained
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Looking out the window of a fast ship
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Clock Ticking Speed: Center vs Surface
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Unveiling the Mystery of Simultaneity
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Liftetime of photons in matter
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Frame fields vs. Coordinate bases
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Does gravitational waves participate in gravitation interaction?
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How is 3-space curved without a fourth spatial dimension?
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Some simple minded aspects of gravity
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Relationship between E=mc^2 and gravity
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What is it about speed that affects time?
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Solving Paradox of SR & Warning Alpha Centaurians: Passer-by's Perspective
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Rotating Black Holes | Angular Momentum Explained
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Which direction did they measure a meter?
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Lorentz Factor Explained for Laymen: Twin Paradox
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General Relativity vs Newtonian Mechanics
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Is Acceleration Truly Relative or Absolute in the Context of General Relativity?
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How Does Time Function as a Fourth Dimension in Our Solar System?
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Gravitomagnetism and acceleration
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What Is the Physical Meaning of the Torsion Tensor in General Relativity?
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Has the Hawking-Penrose Debate Shaped Modern Physics?
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Understanding Einstein-Hilbert Action: Detailed Explanation from an Expert
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Time & Gravity: GR in Physics Today?
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Full Orbit in General Relativity: Defining a Frame Invariant Concept
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Practical meaning of simultaneity calculations?
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Question About Speed of Light and Energy
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How are the photoelectric effect and special relativity related?
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Understanding Velocity Transformation: A Crucial Factor in Particle Motion
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How Does a Black Hole Affect the Human Body?
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Why did Einstein define speed of light as a constant and time as a variable?
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Can All Clocks in an Inertial Frame Simultaneously Read Zero?
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A question about general relativity ?
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Can Special Relativity Solve the Twin Paradox in a Gravitational Field?
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GPS, GR, satellites and clock speed on the satellites
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Temperature and speed of clocks
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Observing an astronaut falling into a black hole
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What is the definition of general covariance ?
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Photon wavelength in expanding universe
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How Can I Understand Slowly Rotating Perturbations of the Whittaker Metric?
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How Does General Relativity Explain Why We Always See the Same Side of the Moon?
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Light Behaviour: Does Gravity Accelerate Light?
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Tensor pertubration: Hello to everyone
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Can Adding a Constant to the D'Alembertian Maintain Relativistic Invariance?
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Schwarzschild black hole/kruskal extension
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Relativistic Limit of Tardyon Momentum and Mass
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Spacetime, the Universe, the Present and the Future
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Challenging the Speed of Light: The Curious Case of Opposing Photons
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Understanding Time Dilation in Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity
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A question about time dialation
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Antisymmetrized tensor product
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Gravity Probe-B: Results & General Relativity
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Expressing second and its derivatives in terms of seven SI base units
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Light's Instantaneous Wordline: Is Time Really Zero?
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Twin paradox again (yes again)
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