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Undergrad Time Dilation and space missions
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Graduate Time slows down when you approach the speed of light?
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Undergrad Preferred Coordinates: Definition & Overview
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Graduate Proof of Lorentz Geom. Not Holding in All Acc. Frames - Example
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Undergrad Is it not possible to travel in light speed?
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Graduate Portal Discussion: Human at Speed of Light
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Graduate Co-Accelerating Ships: Explaining the Problem
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High School Maximum Non-Relativistic Speed
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Graduate How Does Change Relate to the Relativity of Time and Entropy?
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Graduate A question about relativity theory?
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Graduate Einstein began looking for gravity in the electromagnetic waves
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Graduate Is the Schwarzschild radius always constant in black holes?
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Graduate Relativity and my Intergalactic Space Race
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Graduate How Do Different Velocities Affect Clocks in Special Relativity?
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Graduate Light vs Non-EM Wave Velocity and Time Dilation
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Graduate Simulation: ray of light near black hole
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Graduate Where can I find translated versions of the original General Relativity papers?
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Graduate The Twin Paradox: Why Does the Travelling Twin Age Less?
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Undergrad The twins paradox and explanation
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Graduate What is the Equation Relating Tardyon Components in Different Reference Frames?
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Graduate Phase invariance of e.m. waves
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Graduate Does Time Dilation Occur with Uniform Motion?
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Graduate Light Speed Paradox: Explaining Newtonic Physics
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Undergrad What is the relative velocity of two observers with given object velocities?
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Graduate Postulate and special relativity
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Graduate Why Is the Riemann Tensor Contracted in the Einstein Field Equations?
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Graduate From one space dimension to two space dimensions in special relativity
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Graduate Just how many different theories of gravity are there?
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Graduate Thoughts (of an amateur) on the Solution to the Twin Paradox
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Graduate Stress energy tensor for rotating disc
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Graduate How Does Speed Affect Time Dilation?
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Graduate Deriving Length Contraction: Is There Another Way?
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Graduate If you could make your mass=0, would you begin moving at c?
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Undergrad Relativity Stumper for you Einsteins
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Graduate Galilean vs Lorentz transformation equations
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Graduate Is the direction of a pulse from a laser pen dependent on the observer?
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Graduate How does the Gravitational Wave Rocket work?
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Graduate Gravitational Self-Interaction
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Graduate Why can't we see objects fall into a black hole?
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Download GR Video Lectures | Free Resources
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Graduate Could a Special Mirror in Electromagnetic Waves Explain the Lorentz Factor?
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Graduate Is Gravity Just Another Form of Acceleration?
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Graduate Where does time travel fastest? And a moving galaxy/light speed question.
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Graduate Special Relativity: Explaining 4Potential as a 4Vector
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Graduate How is time and space affected by the warps in General Relativity?
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Graduate Can Kinetic Energy Differences Cause a Wormhole to Collapse in Science Fiction?
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High School Does a sphere maintain its shape when viewed at high speeds?
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High School What is Gravity? Understanding the Basics
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Graduate New View on Gravity: Warped Space-Time Continuum
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Graduate Gravitomagnetism and quantum theory of gravity?
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Graduate What Happens to Aging in the Twin Paradox When Both Twins Accelerate?
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Graduate Formalizing Special and General Relativity: Axioms and Conservation Laws
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Graduate What would the universe look like from the perspective of a photon observer?
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Graduate Gravity Well & Speed of Light: Questions & Answers
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Graduate Gravitational force and density.
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Undergrad Could a 6ft Object Hitting Earth at 99% Light Speed Destroy It?
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Graduate Lorentz Transformation: Conservation of Inner Product?
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Graduate Kerr solution as complex transformation
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Graduate Do Photons Coexist in the Same Space?
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Graduate Must measurement of time reference light?
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Graduate Relativistic velocity derivation under constant force
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Graduate Space-time Fabric: how what and why it warps?
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Graduate Energy in relation to space and time
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Graduate Current status of gravitational collapse (full quantum mechanical treatment).
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Graduate The Effects of Gravitomagnetism on Surrounding Particles
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Graduate Is Gravity a Force? Modern Physics Explained
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Graduate Schwarzschild solution and Machian variable G
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High School Improper Length & Time Intervals
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Graduate Math of an accelerating spaceship
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Undergrad When the revolution of the earth on its axis accelerates
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Undergrad What is the Smallest Constant Measurement of Time in the Universe?
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Undergrad Can Black Holes Accelerate Objects to Light Speed?
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Graduate Regarding the conversion of kinetic energy to mass
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Graduate Proper Length and Time Intervals in the Lorentz Transformations
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Graduate Stationary axisymmetric spacetime
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Graduate Does the Twin Paradox Challenge Classical Relativity?
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Graduate Solve the Relativity Paradox: Two Objects Moving at Light Speed
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Undergrad A Question About Special Relativity's Basics
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Undergrad Understanding Light: Puzzled by Velocity?
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Graduate Force propagation and length contraction
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Undergrad Calculating Relative Motion of A, B, & C: Agree?
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Graduate Restrictions on Riemann components
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High School Do gravitational field lines always need to be straight? Example?
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Undergrad Why do we talk about speed of light in a vaccum?
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Graduate Can a black hole be accelerated to go faster than the speed of light?
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Graduate Uniform Acceleration and Gravity (again)
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Scanned relativity books on the internet
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Graduate Is space curvature misleading?
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Undergrad Clock Synchronization: Teaching Special Relativity
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Graduate General Relativity: gravitational waves
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Graduate Newtonian perturbations to Minkowski
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Graduate Simultaneity in Relativity: self-contradictory?
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Graduate Relativity of Simultaneity: The Spreading Stain
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Graduate What is the Newtonian limit of LCDM in astrophysics?
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Undergrad Do Black Holes Expand at the Speed of Light?
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Graduate Following Schwartz's argument re: measuring (g-2)
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Graduate Does the Gravitational Mass of a Moving Particle Increase with Inertial Mass?
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Graduate Calculating GPS Locations: The Impact of Special Relativity
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Graduate Is the Schwarzschild Metric Solution Correct?
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Undergrad Would Dark Matter Make Us Invisible at High Speeds?
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