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Graduate Deriving the line element in homogenous isotropic space
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Graduate Simple problem driving me nuts :-)
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Graduate Does a Spinning Cylinder Affect Rocket Acceleration and Energy Conservation?
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Graduate The Villain's Fate: Alive or Dead?
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Undergrad What is the required energy for reaching 99.99999c velocity?
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Undergrad What Is the Importance of Understanding the 4th Dimension?
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Graduate Colliding rotating black holes
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Graduate Can information travel faster than light?
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Graduate Learn GR: Mathematics Required for General Relativity
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Graduate Local acceleration experienced by observer
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Undergrad Losing gravitational potentional energy
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Graduate Understanding the Validity of Relativity: Questioning and Learning
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Graduate Angular momentum and quantum spin
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Graduate Can relativistic abberation be observed in quasar jets?
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Graduate Light moves at C from all frames of references?
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Graduate Energy-mom tensor of charged dust (homogeneous and isotropic)
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Graduate Consensus about Van Flandern's ideas on speed of gravity?
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Graduate Proper time of accelerated clocks
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Graduate Question on traveling spaceships
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Graduate Emission/Absorption and electron orbits
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Undergrad Speed of Light and Flash Light
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Graduate Help Deriving formula for Einstein Radius
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Graduate Radial geodesic distance with Schwarzschild's solution
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Graduate I have 2 questions about relativity
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Graduate Reverse-tracing Einstein's field equation
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Graduate How Large Must a Spark Chamber Be to Qualify as an Inertial Frame?
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Graduate How do I find the line element on a torus?
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Graduate Calculating Christoffel symbols for a spherical shell in 2-space
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Graduate Is Synchronizing Clocks at Different Positions Neglecting Light Travel Delays?
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Graduate Black holes and the time issue
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Graduate Educational value of spacetime diagrams
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High School Can Anything Travel Faster Than Light - Explained Simply
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Graduate Special Relativity, 2nd postulate, and a dilemma
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Graduate From Lorentz transformatios to Bondi's approach
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Graduate Is the Universe a Singular Entity with Time as an Illusion?
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Graduate How Does Kaluza-Klein Theory Separate Classical and Quantum Equations of Motion?
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High School Understanding the Speed of Light in Theory of Relativity: A Beginner's Guide
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Graduate Tugging on a Chain: Earth-Moon Connection Explored
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Graduate The light clock and time dilation.
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Graduate Deriving/Justifying Lorentz Interval
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Graduate Spacetime transformations or not?
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Graduate What Is the Triplet Paradox and Its Implications for Time Dilation?
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Graduate Why is the Torsion Tensor Overlooked in General Relativity?
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Graduate Tachyons travel backward in time?
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Graduate Is the Contravariant Derivative Defined by Contracting with the Metric?
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Graduate Twin Paradox: Why Does the Traveling Twin Age Slower?
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Graduate Can Lorentz Transform Hold in a Discrete Space-Time Model?
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Graduate Einstein's Thought-Experiment: Disgruntled Observer's Perspective
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Graduate Schwarzschild Metric: Combining Special & General Relativity
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Graduate Proof of invariance of gas pressure
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Graduate Use of Special or General Relativity in QM?
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Graduate What happens to time when gravity is absent
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Graduate What Happens in a Relativistic Particle Collision?
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Graduate On Pressure/Gravity/The Expanding Universe
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Graduate Why haven't we observed distortion of objects near a black hole's event horizon?
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Graduate Are Black Holes Made of Waveforms?
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Graduate How Are Gravitational Waves Derived from Einstein's Field Equations?
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Graduate Speed in Space: Relative Motion & Time Effects
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Graduate What are the implications of rotational reference frames?
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Graduate X' relative to S' and relative to S
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Graduate Wavelength in a Circular Orbit Around Earth
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Graduate Explaining Einstein's Choice of R_ab - 1/2 g_ab R
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Undergrad Can you actually measure an object's velocity?
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Graduate Understanding Curl in 3D: Using Vector Operators & Components
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Graduate Is Time Bending the 3rd Dimension in Spacetime Curvature?
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Graduate Do wormholes really exist in spacetime?
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Graduate Einstein's ultimate conclusion regarding ether and Relativity?
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Graduate E&M in a Curved Space-Time: Find Books & Papers Here
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Graduate How does a photon's event horizon look like?
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Graduate Can Atomic Clocks Accurately Measure Time in Accelerating Bodies?
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Undergrad No seriously; Can we, maybe, go to the past?
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Graduate Is Modern Physics Still Shaped by The Dancing Wu Li Masters?
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Graduate Time & Space: Inseparable? Photon Existence?
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Graduate Nature of Spacetime: Accepted View Explained
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Graduate Why nothing is observed going back in time
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Graduate Changing the speed of light does nothing?
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Graduate Cosmological constant as a perfect fluid
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Undergrad Plot a point on Earth through the Universe
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Graduate Differences between Lorentz scalars and Lorentz invariants
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Graduate Question about Relativity and the apparent direction of light
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Undergrad What is the effect of relativity on measurements in a moving universe?
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Graduate Relativity Concerning Small Particles
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Graduate How does photon gain its speed in no time?
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Graduate Why does light have invarient speed?
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Graduate Q about relativistic mass increase, starship
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Graduate Could general relativity be right simply because it explains gravity?
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Graduate Tachyons & Photons: Time & Speed of Light
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Graduate Why did Einstein postulate the theory of the speed of light in an at-rest frame?
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Graduate Understanding Metric Tensor: Time & Spatial Coordinates and Indices
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Graduate How Does Relativity Affect Our Perception of Light and Photons?
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Graduate Blueshift + Classical Physics = Golden Ratio
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Graduate Can Relativity Account for the Age Difference in a Big Circle?
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Undergrad Does gravity apply at very short distances?
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Download Einstein's Essays from Annals of Physics
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Graduate What Are the Hamilton-Jacobi Equations for General Relativity?
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Graduate Is this a suitable explanation of relativity?
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Graduate Problem with equivalence principle.
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Graduate Could time be movement in a 4th physical dimension?
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Graduate Observed Time vs Observed Duration
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