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High School Question regarding the equivalence principle
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High School Lense-Thirring Effect and Energy Loss
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Undergrad Understanding White Holes to Region III in GR
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Graduate Transmission Line in Accelerating Frame: Energy Conservation Puzzle
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Undergrad Finding the angular momentum of a Kerr black hole
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High School Is Proper Time Only Perceived by External Observers?
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Undergrad Integration trouble (integral over a 2-sphere)
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Undergrad Commutation between covariant derivative and metric
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Undergrad Refractive index of a medium in relativistic motion
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Undergrad Is the Surface of a Sphere Locally Flat?
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Undergrad Why do the two mouths of a wormhole have opposite charges?
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High School Conflict Between Time Dilation and Red/Blue Shift?
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High School Time Dilation Question: Two Men's Watches Differ after Space Travel
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Undergrad Left-right arrow in Einstein equation
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Undergrad Metric Transformation b/w Inertial Frames: Analyzing Effects
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High School SR vs GR - Visual Difference between Length Contraction
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Undergrad Observe Hawking Rad. in Black Hole?
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Graduate Understanding Coordinate Transformation of a Tensorial Relation
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Undergrad Strange result from Bianchi identity, me spot the error
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Undergrad Alcubierre Warp Drive: Spacetime Diagram Explained
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High School Definition of Spacetime Interval
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Undergrad Learning GR with Leonard Susskind: Prerequisites Needed?
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Undergrad Parallel transport general relativity
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Undergrad A problem with how the speed of light connects to special relativity
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Graduate Conservation of energy for stationary particle attached to string
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Graduate Gravitational Potential Energy & the Equivalence Principle
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Graduate Eddington's Experiment: Sources for Calculations
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High School Gravitational Waves: Comparing Effects on Earth
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Undergrad Light Deflection Formula: Impact Parameter & Angle Shift
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Undergrad LIGO & Special Relativity: Is Spacetime Distortion Real?
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Undergrad Relativity's Effect on Long Rod Shape and Speed
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High School Fewer seconds or shorter seconds?
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Graduate Help with 2nd Order Ricci: Indexes in GR
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Undergrad GR: Attractors & Liouville's Theorem
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Undergrad Definition of Tensor Identity Simplification
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High School Gravitational Wave Background: The Mysteries of the Universe
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Undergrad The spacetime length of finite spacelike intervals
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High School Analogies for Gravitational Attraction in Physics
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Undergrad Acceleration in special theory of relativity
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High School Black Hole Energy Conversion - How Does It Work?
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Undergrad Time and Lorentz transformations
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High School Could Universe Expansion Be Causing a Decay in the Speed of Light?
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Undergrad What is a "rotating worldline"?
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High School Explaining Perihelion Shift of Mercury in GR Theory
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Undergrad How to work out the tetrads for given functions?
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High School Why Aren’t ALL SR Effects Cumulative?
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High School Time Dilation: Away or Toward Observer?
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Graduate Differences between Actions in Curved Spacetime
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Undergrad New paper gravitomagnetism explains dark matter effects
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High School Clocks Vanishing into Thin Air - Gravitational Time Dilation
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High School Understanding Spacetime Diagrams | Basics Explained
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Undergrad Electric Field seen by an observer in motion
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Undergrad Lorentz transformations: 1+1 spacetime only
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Undergrad Observing Christmas Lights in a Black Hole: What You See
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High School Is the Twins Paradox Equivalent to GPS Time Dilation?
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High School Understanding Lorentz Transformations in Special Relativity
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High School How does time dilation affect measurements of wheel rotation on a moving bus?
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Insights The Electric Field Seen by an Observer: A Relativistic Calculation with Tensors
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Undergrad Postulates of Special Relativity: Speed of Light in Inertial Frames
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Undergrad Diffeomorphism Invariance, Passive/Active Interpretations GR Insight
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Graduate Einstein's Elevator Trajectories: Desloge & Philpott 1987, Hamilton 1978
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High School Special Relativity & Einstein's Equivalence Principle
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Undergrad Thorne's error in explaining gravitational time dilation
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Undergrad Relativistic Energy & Robert M. Wald's General Relativity
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High School Event Horizon: Non-Overlapping Radii Explored
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Undergrad An algebraic manipulation in Schutz's book on GR
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Undergrad Principle of relativity: active vs passive point of view
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High School Does special relativity entail matter annihilation?
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Undergrad One more talk about the independence of Einstein's SR axioms
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Undergrad Alcubierre Drive & Gravitational Waves: Alien Effects?
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Undergrad Pole-Barn Paradox: Is My Understanding Correct?
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Graduate Latest Warp Drive Research: Examining Chronology Protection Conjecture
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High School Black Hole Observation: Outside Observer & Spherical Symmetry
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Undergrad Einstein's 1935 Paper on Wormholes & Modern Physics
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Undergrad Special Relativity: 3 Objects, Momentum & Time Dilation
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Undergrad What tests can falsify general relativity?
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Undergrad Why binary systems for gravitational waves?
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Undergrad Is Scale Factor a Scalar? Sean Carroll Invitation
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Undergrad Can the Spacetime Interval at a Singularity Change Our Understanding of Time?
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Undergrad Correcting General Relativity Effect on Atomic Time
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High School Velocity Addn Paradox: SR Postulate Explained
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High School What Happens When Light Approaches a Black Hole?
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Graduate Why Is Time Dilation Considered a Real Phenomenon?
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Undergrad Is Heart Rate Invariant in Different States of Motion?
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Undergrad Space - time and the illusion of time
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Undergrad Cross Product in E_u: Explaining Gourgoulhon's Text
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Graduate GBAR Experiment (CERN) - Genève
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High School Understanding the Stress-Energy Tensor & Solar Mass in General Relativity
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Undergrad Doppler effect - can't imagine how the frequency of light can change
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High School Is this explanation of gravity under General Relativity legit?
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Undergrad General Relativity: Angular Momentum, Gravity & Questions
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High School Light Speed Invariance: Experiments, Difficulties & Clarification
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Graduate Possible to publish a paper that contradicts Einstein's special relativity?
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High School Speed of Light: Questions Answered
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Undergrad Speed of light not an invariant in GR
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Undergrad What do physicists mean by "local degrees of freedom"?
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High School What Links High Velocities, Strong Gravitational Fields, and Time Dilation?
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High School Interested in Black Holes, Neutron Stars, and White Dwarf Stars
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Undergrad General relativity, Electromagnetism and Feynman Diagrams
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Graduate Gravitomagnetism: Derivation, Theory & Insights - Bill
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