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Graduate Lambda Warp Drive: Locally Manipulating for Alcubierre Warp Bubble
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Graduate Can a Stationary Observer Replace a Moving One in Relativity Experiments?
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Graduate Photon-Electron collision problem
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Graduate Symmetry of mass distribution producing radial gravitational force field
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Graduate Geodesic applied to twins paradox
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Graduate Mach's Principle and Equivalence
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Graduate E=mc^2 in 1,2,3,5,6 dimentions?
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Graduate Modified gravitation ; how to make it relativistic ?
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Graduate How does angular speed affect the relativistic mass of a rotating cylinder?
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Graduate Is Exotic Matter Driving the Universe's Accelerating Expansion?
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Graduate Le Sage Gravity - some questions
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Graduate Rotating Space Station & Gravity: A General Relativity Exploration
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Graduate How do we know that gravity is an attractive force?
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Graduate Free fall coordinates in Schwarzschild?
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Graduate Novice's Question: Understanding Photon & Spacetime Curvature
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Graduate De Sitter relativity and Lorentz contraction
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Graduate Why Is General Covariance Fundamental in Modern Physics?
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Graduate Relativistic centripetal force
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Graduate Schwarzschild de sitter solution
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Graduate Is the Loedel Diagram a Special Case of the Minkowski Spacetime Diagram?
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Graduate Kinetic theory in general relativity
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Graduate EINSTEIN-VLASLOV EQUATION (to chriss HILMAN or anyone else who cares)
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Graduate Relativistic wheel and orbit connection?
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Graduate Simultaneity Check for Light Flash in Train and Platform Frames
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Graduate Cooperstock &Tieu's most recent paper
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Graduate Does General Relativity Explain Mercury's Perihelion Precession and the CMBR?
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Graduate Closing Door Paradox in SR Theory
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Graduate Time Dilation: 10.5B Years at Light Speed?
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Graduate Newtonian Limit of GR: Experimentally Constraining k in the Einstein Equation
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Graduate Constant Acceleration seen in an inertial frame
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Graduate Where Do Closed Timelike Curves Go?
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Graduate Derivation of the Teukolsky Equation
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Graduate Lorentz Transform in Non-Minkowski Spaces
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Graduate Derivation of Lorentz Transformation
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Graduate 2 Masses accelerating to eachother
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Graduate How Does Special Relativity Explain the Michelson-Morley Experiment Results?
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High School Is Light Speed Fixed? - Physics for the Lay Person
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High School Why is the speed of light limited in physics?
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High School My 9-year-old son has a physics questions that I couldn't answer
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Graduate Which solutions of GR are experimentally tested
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Graduate Linearized gravity / Linearized Einstein Field Equations / GEM
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Graduate Considering Relative Simultaneity - Relying on clocks instead of observers
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Graduate Visualizing 4 Dimension Objects - Length, Breadth, Height & Time
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Graduate Scalar Gravitational Theory with Variable Rest Mass
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Graduate Do Cosmological Assumptions Affect Conservation Laws?
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Graduate Tidal Effects of Non-Uniform Gravitational Fields in Free-falling Coaches
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Undergrad Rotational Kinematics: Finding KE in SR
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Undergrad Light Slowed to 70 Km/h: Causes & Effects
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Graduate Topology of closed timelike curves (CTC)
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Graduate How Does the Twin Paradox Challenge Our Understanding of Time Dilation?
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Graduate Could a moving object become a black hole?
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Graduate Why the metric is covariantly constant?
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Graduate Topology outside vs inside black hole
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Graduate Understanding the Frame Dependence of the Speed of Light in a Medium
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Graduate Is Einstein's etheric model of GR compatible with modern physics?
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Graduate Does a photon slow down when absorbed?
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Undergrad Can somebody read this and tell me the flaw in the argument?
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Graduate Does Time Slow Down Near a Black Hole?
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High School Time Dilation: If You Go to Space, What Happens to Time?
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Graduate Is the speed of light constant?
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Graduate What happens to kinetic energy in the case of a photon?
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Graduate Could photons emitted by high velocity electrons have a specific emission angle?
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Graduate Slowing Down a Photon - Does It Make Sense?
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Graduate Understanding the Concept of 4-Vectors in Physics: A Mathematical Perspective
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Graduate Calculating Black Hole Gravity: Velocity > Light Speed?
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Graduate Do Photons Have Infinite Energy at Light Speed?
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Undergrad Gravity/conservation of energy?
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Graduate Question on Curvature of Space
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Graduate Why EFE Satisfy Empty Space in 2-3 vs 4-D+ Dimensions
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Graduate Brightness detected based on direction of travel relative to source
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Graduate Why torsion free metric compatible connection ?
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Graduate Modelling Einstein's Thought Experiments (Trains + Mirrors)
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Time dialtion tick tick skeptick
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Graduate Why is synchronizing clocks important?
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Graduate Crackpot argument on Physicsforums gets published?
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Graduate How Does Acceleration Relate to General Relativity and Spacetime Curvature?
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Graduate Why Does Hamilton's Function Equal Zero in Relativistic Lagrangian?
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Graduate Is the Speed of Light Truly Constant in a Vacuum?
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Graduate SR Limit Problem: mcc/sqrt(1-uu/cc)
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Graduate Gravity: real force or artefact of acceleration?
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Undergrad Looking for complete explanation of logic behind relativity
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Undergrad Einstein's papers translated to english?
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Graduate Can Lorentz Contraction Exceed Light Speed?
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Graduate Relativity, the flow of time and speed
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Undergrad Does Hubble's Law violate special relativity?
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Graduate Can Two Black Holes Merge and Reverse into Regular Matter?
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Undergrad A rocket can't travel faster than the speed of light
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Graduate Question about events inside black holes
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Graduate Boosting EM Field Tensor: Lorentz Invariance & Potential Effects
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Graduate A question with the readings of synchronized clocks
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Graduate Special Relativity, Existence, and Big Bang
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Graduate De Broglie & Light: My Doubt - Einstein's Calc
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Graduate Speed/Aging Theory: Is a 4D Universe Moving at c?
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Graduate Can a Particle Reach Light Speed at r=3M in a Schwarzschild Black Hole Orbit?
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Graduate What does curvature of spacetime really mean?
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Graduate Wormholes, parallel universes, negative mass
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Graduate Lorentz transformation active or passive？
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Graduate Do Standing Waves Exist in General Relativity?
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Graduate Paper discussing the mathematics of relativity
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Graduate Invariance of combinations of physical quantities
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