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Join in expert discussion on special and general relativity discussion. Relativity is the dependence of various physical phenomena on relative motion of the observer and the observed objects.

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Undergrad Gravitational Waves: Prerequisites for Study

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Undergrad Accelerating into a black hole?

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Undergrad Is the Equation for Relativistic Two-Body Decay Correct?

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Undergrad Deriving E&B Fields from Plane Wave 4-Potential

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Undergrad Compute Physical Coordinates of an Event in a Curved Spacetime

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Undergrad Vaidya Metrics: Outgoing M(u) Conditions & Phys. Situations

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Undergrad Does this contradict or require GR?

Apr 12, 2019 · Replies 15 · Apr 13, 2019

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Undergrad E on q independent of v - confusing?

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Undergrad Easy ways to explain special & general relativity

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Undergrad Falling Into a Black Hole: Time Dilation & Hawking Radiation

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Undergrad Photon Patterns in Space: Could They Exist?

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Undergrad Particles w/ 0 Inertial Mass Traveling Faster than Light?

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Undergrad Looking for more accurate energy-momentum transformations for photons

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Undergrad Reading suggestions about the "nature of time"

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Undergrad Transverse inertial motion of rockets in acceleration

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Undergrad Gravitational Waves: Questions on Mass & Escape Velocity

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Undergrad Time Dilation Effects - Understand without Clocks

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Undergrad Uniqueness Theorems in Non-Flat Spacetime

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Undergrad Is the Delta Function a Scalar?

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Undergrad Fastest Cause & Effect: Electric Field & Magnetic Field

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Undergrad Conserved Stress-Energy in Gravitational Theories

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Undergrad Determining c from Maxwell's Equations

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Undergrad Invariance of Action: Lagrangian Transformation

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Undergrad Gravity Waves or Gravity Delay: Which Concept Explains Our Cosmic Stretching?

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Undergrad Gravitational Waves & Matter: Causes, Effects & Thresholds

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Undergrad Free Particles & Geodesics: Do They Go Hand-in-Hand?

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Undergrad Space-time curvature and the fabric of space

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Undergrad Confusion about index notation and operations of GR

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Undergrad Black hole orbital mechanics questions

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Undergrad Gravitational field versus acceleration

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Undergrad Relativistic form of the displacement current using the Biot-Savart Law

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Undergrad Why do particles around us have finite momenta?

Mar 14, 2019 · Replies 21 · Mar 15, 2019

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Undergrad Can this event vary relatively?

Mar 12, 2019 · Replies 18 · Mar 15, 2019

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Undergrad Maxwell's Equations in Different Lorentz Frames: Are They Equivalent?

Mar 10, 2019 · Replies 16 · Mar 14, 2019

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Undergrad General Relativity and light deflection

Mar 12, 2019 · Replies 4 · Mar 13, 2019

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Undergrad Solving for Gravity Without Gravitational Constant - Little g vs Big G

Mar 10, 2019 · Replies 17 · Mar 11, 2019

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Undergrad Fermi-Walker: Showing Rotation in Plane of 4-Accel & 4-Vel

Mar 8, 2019 · Replies 7 · Mar 9, 2019

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Undergrad Finding Most General Form of Rindler Coordinates

Mar 6, 2019 · Replies 4 · Mar 6, 2019

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Undergrad Electromagnetic Curr. in Curved Spacetime: Questions Answered

Mar 4, 2019 · Replies 12 · Mar 5, 2019

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Undergrad Proper Acceleration: Why d^2x^α/dτ^2 is Not Ideal

Mar 4, 2019 · Replies 12 · Mar 4, 2019

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Undergrad Maximally symmetric sub-manifold (2-sphere)

Mar 1, 2019 · Replies 25 · Mar 4, 2019

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Undergrad On The Length of a Meter Stick

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Undergrad Geodesics in 4D Spacetime: An Overview

Mar 2, 2019 · Replies 9 · Mar 3, 2019

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Undergrad How Does the Metric of a 4-D Spacetime Define Its Symmetry and Expansion?

Mar 2, 2019 · Replies 1 · Mar 2, 2019

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Undergrad Measuring the Speed of Light: Time of Flight Experiments

Feb 27, 2019 · Replies 15 · Mar 1, 2019

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Undergrad Solving Special Relativity Problem w/ Two Spaceships

Feb 28, 2019 · Replies 3 · Feb 28, 2019

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Undergrad Connecting Geodesic Curves and the Covariant Derivative

Feb 25, 2019 · Replies 11 · Feb 27, 2019

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Undergrad Conservation of energy-momentum (tensor)

Feb 26, 2019 · Replies 22 · Feb 27, 2019

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Undergrad Spacetime Curvature: Eliptical Orbital Paths & Keppler Laws

Feb 27, 2019 · Replies 5 · Feb 27, 2019

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Undergrad Covariant derivative of tangent vector for geodesic

Feb 25, 2019 · Replies 14 · Feb 26, 2019

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Undergrad Implication of length contraction

Feb 23, 2019 · Replies 17 · Feb 26, 2019

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Undergrad Is my reasoning about commutators of vectors right?

Feb 26, 2019 · Replies 3 · Feb 26, 2019

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Undergrad Is there a zero-mass, vacuum Schwarzschild GR solution?

Feb 23, 2019 · Replies 27 · Feb 25, 2019

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Undergrad Schwarzschild metric not dependent on time

Feb 20, 2019 · Replies 58 · Feb 25, 2019

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Undergrad Contravariant Vector Transformation in Spherical Polar Coordinates

Feb 24, 2019 · Replies 13 · Feb 25, 2019

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Undergrad Parallel transport of tangent vector....(geodesic)

Feb 25, 2019 · Replies 12 · Feb 25, 2019

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Undergrad Perturbation to Flat Space Metric: Geodesic Equation

Feb 23, 2019 · Replies 6 · Feb 24, 2019

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Undergrad Speed of Light Measured by Jupiter's Moons: Error 26%?

Feb 23, 2019 · Replies 6 · Feb 23, 2019

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Undergrad Confusion about Simultaneous Events in Relativity

Feb 17, 2019 · Replies 13 · Feb 20, 2019

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Undergrad Bending of light - Newton vs. Einstein

Feb 19, 2019 · Replies 22 · Feb 20, 2019

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Undergrad Frame Dragging Effect vs Spin Orbit Coupling in GR

Feb 18, 2019 · Replies 8 · Feb 19, 2019

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Undergrad Schwarzschild: Energy Conservation at Finite r

Feb 19, 2019 · Replies 1 · Feb 19, 2019

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Undergrad Inertial Ref: Can Light Photons Be a Privileged Frame?

Feb 15, 2019 · Replies 9 · Feb 17, 2019

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Undergrad Books on Spacetime Hypersurfaces & Foliations of Space Time

Feb 16, 2019 · Replies 2 · Feb 17, 2019

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Undergrad Is Absolute Position Necessary to Understand Relativity?

Feb 17, 2019 · Replies 5 · Feb 17, 2019

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Undergrad Gamma in Brans-Dicke framework

Feb 15, 2019 · Replies 5 · Feb 15, 2019

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Undergrad Symmetric Connection: Does Torsion Vanish?

Feb 14, 2019 · Replies 3 · Feb 15, 2019

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Undergrad What are the metric components in the Brans-Dicke action?

Feb 14, 2019 · Replies 14 · Feb 14, 2019

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Undergrad GR: Electric & Magnetic Effects - Consequences

Feb 14, 2019 · Replies 7 · Feb 14, 2019

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Undergrad Einstein-Hilbert Action, Lagrangian Density & Vacuum Fields

Feb 14, 2019 · Replies 1 · Feb 14, 2019

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Undergrad Relativistic mass and gravitational potential

Feb 13, 2019 · Replies 6 · Feb 14, 2019

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Undergrad Acceleration of a relativistic particle

Feb 13, 2019 · Replies 7 · Feb 13, 2019

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Undergrad Is this answer about Lorentz transforms correct?

Feb 11, 2019 · Replies 5 · Feb 13, 2019

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Undergrad Allowed fields in General Relativity

Feb 6, 2019 · Replies 14 · Feb 9, 2019

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Undergrad Uniqueness theorems for black holes

Feb 5, 2019 · Replies 12 · Feb 8, 2019

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Undergrad Invariance of timelike Killing vector of Schwarzschild sol.

Feb 7, 2019 · Replies 3 · Feb 7, 2019

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Undergrad Can the Lorentz factor be modified for non-inertial frames?

Feb 5, 2019 · Replies 12 · Feb 7, 2019

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Undergrad Cosmological Constant Term in Einstein Equations

Feb 5, 2019 · Replies 2 · Feb 6, 2019

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Undergrad General Relativity rocket puzzle

Jan 31, 2019 · Replies 84 · Feb 5, 2019

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Undergrad What happens to the energy lost by photons in gravity?

Nov 1, 2018 · Replies 38 · Feb 5, 2019

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Undergrad Gravitational wave interference

Feb 2, 2019 · Replies 9 · Feb 5, 2019

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Undergrad Question about the limits of space contraction near light speed

Feb 4, 2019 · Replies 10 · Feb 4, 2019

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Undergrad Is Simultaneity in Einstein's Thought Experiment a Matter of Perspective?

Feb 1, 2019 · Replies 22 · Feb 2, 2019

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Undergrad Calculating Acceleration of Gravity w/ Geodesic Deviation: Troubleshooting

Jan 24, 2019 · Replies 22 · Feb 1, 2019

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Undergrad Legendre Transform: Momentum & Velocity

Jan 31, 2019 · Replies 2 · Feb 1, 2019

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Undergrad Massive Particles in Sonic & Slow Light Black Holes

Jan 27, 2019 · Replies 2 · Jan 31, 2019

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Undergrad Photon Timelessness: Does It Exist?

Jun 6, 2017 · Replies 27 · Jan 29, 2019

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Undergrad Energy Density & Mass Density: Explained

Jan 28, 2019 · Replies 2 · Jan 28, 2019

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Undergrad About spacetime coordinate systems

Jan 17, 2019 · Replies 37 · Jan 27, 2019

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Undergrad Any direct evidence of gravitational mass increase?

Jan 21, 2019 · Replies 39 · Jan 27, 2019

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Undergrad Speed of Light in Materials: Explained

Jan 26, 2019 · Replies 4 · Jan 27, 2019

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Undergrad Falling electric dipole contradicts the equivalence principle?

Jan 20, 2019 · Replies 3 · Jan 26, 2019

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Undergrad Why Are Maxwell's Equations Invariant Across Reference Frames?

Jan 24, 2019 · Replies 11 · Jan 26, 2019

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Undergrad What does coupling mean in physics?

Jan 18, 2019 · Replies 5 · Jan 26, 2019

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Undergrad Paradox: Rocket ship moving in a circle

Jan 22, 2019 · Replies 12 · Jan 26, 2019

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Undergrad Energy Tensor Gradients: ∂βTμυ

Jan 24, 2019 · Replies 5 · Jan 26, 2019

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Undergrad Allowed transformations in General Relativity

Jan 21, 2019 · Replies 12 · Jan 24, 2019

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Undergrad What do we mean when we say something transforms "under"....

Jan 21, 2019 · Replies 4 · Jan 22, 2019

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Undergrad Gravitational Time Dilation: Radius & Clock Rate Variation Explained

Jan 22, 2019 · Replies 2 · Jan 22, 2019

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Undergrad Does Special Relativity Deal with Non-Inertial Frames?

Dec 23, 2018 · Replies 21 · Jan 21, 2019

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Relativity

The theory of relativity, formulated by Albert Einstein, comprises two fundamental theories—special and general relativity. Special relativity, proposed in 1905, redefines our understanding of space and time by asserting the constancy of the speed of light for all observers and introducing concepts like time dilation and length contraction.

General relativity, presented in 1915, extends these principles to incorporate gravity. It describes gravity as the curvature of spacetime caused by massive objects, leading to phenomena like gravitational time dilation and the prediction of black holes. Einstein's equations have been consistently validated through experiments and observations, profoundly influencing our comprehension of the universe's fabric and dynamics.

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