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Graduate How to measure the lack of external force during free fall?

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Graduate Does the shape of the curve, that is produced in space by a mass, have a name ?

  • TheDinosaur
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Graduate Time does not run slower or faster

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Graduate Approximation of the FE feat. loose notation

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Graduate Does constant acceleration keep working as you approach light speed?

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Undergrad Do photons from a light source have a particular emission rate?

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Graduate Twin Paradox: Is Time Speeding Up?

  • Xori
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Graduate Is inertia relative or absolute?

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Graduate Time Dilation: The Traveller's Perspective

  • Destrio
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Graduate What Mathematical Knowledge is Needed to Understand Einstein's Field Equations?

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Graduate Speed of photons inside a very powerful gravitational wave

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Graduate Simple Lorentz transformation. Are there objections

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Graduate Understanding Schutz's "Invariance of the Interval"

  • Ray
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Undergrad What Is the Linear Form of the Lorentz Transformation Equation?

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Undergrad Why can't objects move at light speed and what causes relativistic effects?

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Graduate Magnetic field, frames of reference

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Graduate Dark Energy as a Gravitational Field?

  • cefarix
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Graduate Relativity and space travel - what's the problem?

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Graduate Is time an illusion, or is it a fundamental aspect of our universe?

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Graduate Can a Ferris Wheel Spin Faster Than Light?

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Graduate Speed of photon B relative to photon A in a head-on collision

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Graduate How Can Gravity Create a Dent in Space-Time Without Preexisting Gravity?

  • White Lotus
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Undergrad Noobish question on time dilation

  • Übermensch
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Graduate On the way to showing that LT is linear

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Undergrad When sun is gone, gravity of light, which one faster?

  • ArielGenesis
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Undergrad Do Photons Experience Gravitational Red Shift?

  • JPC
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Undergrad Universe Expansion: Is There a Cycle?

  • JPC
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Graduate Time gap between explosions in moving frame of reference

  • Vijay Bhatnagar
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Graduate General relativity vs quantum field theory

  • Urkel
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Graduate Does the sum of the mass of two bodies vary with the distance between them ?

  • C_Ovidiu
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Graduate Causal paradoxes - how to solve them?

  • Demystifier
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Graduate Max Frequency at the Speed of Light: Clarifying a Puzzling Concept

  • TheAnalogKid
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Graduate Speed of Theoretical Wave: Constant Regardless of Frame?

  • ArielGenesis
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Graduate Gravity ficticuous force because it's relative to mass?

  • rcgldr
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Graduate Deriving Lorentz transformations from length contraction without time dilation

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Graduate Photon Acceleration: From 0 to c in Zero Seconds?

  • PhanthomJay
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Undergrad Is a 2004 Discovery About Physics Still Relevant Today?

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Graduate Time Dilation and Biological Aging

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Graduate Superconductors and Gravitomagnetism

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Graduate Speed of Light always remains constant ? think again.

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Graduate Why do the sun and earth pull on each other with equal force?

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Graduate What is a Lorentz transformation and how does it relate to boost transformations?

  • captain
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Graduate How has the definition and scope of special relativity evolved since 1905?

  • JustinLevy
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Undergrad Does Pythagoras' theorem govern acceleration in relativistic bodies?

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Undergrad Is Time Dilation Making You Younger or Older in Special Relativity?

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Graduate Verification of the Lorentz contraction of the space

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Graduate Can Uniform Relative Motion Turn a Wormhole into a Time Tunnel?

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Graduate Which rule determines the direction of gravitomagnetism?

  • adm2e
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Graduate Can Energy Exist Without Mass?

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Graduate What are time-like curves, space-like curves and light cones in relativity?

  • Lakshya
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Graduate Why does a moving train appear longer when approaching?

  • Aeneas
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Graduate How Are Gravitational Waves Produced?

  • adm2e
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Graduate Direct and inverse Lorentz transformation

  • bernhard.rothenstein
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Graduate 3d simulation of special relativity

  • Petroz
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Graduate Scientists claims light speed barrier broken

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Graduate Stress Energy Tensor vs Energy Momentum Tensor

  • captain
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Graduate Questions about time dilation and whether time moves differently at high speeds

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Undergrad Can we perceive time passing faster by moving toward distant light?

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Graduate What is r in the gravitational time dilation formula?

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Graduate Can Light Create a Time Machine?

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Graduate What is Rindler's Lemma on Equal and Opposite Velocities?

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Graduate Constant proper acceleration and the relativity of apparent deceleration

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Graduate Coordinate speed of light vs. gravitational time dilation?

  • kmarinas86
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Graduate Curved space-time observed and confirmed

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Graduate Surely k-calculus kT is 'mixing units'

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Graduate Do Tachyons Really Exist in Physics?

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Graduate Time dilation on accelerated reference frames

  • hover
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Graduate Speed of Light and Black holes

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Graduate How Does Time Dilation Affect Perception of Speed in Relativistic Space Travel?

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High School Is Light Really Bound by Gravity?

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Graduate Is light actually faster than light?

  • Idjot
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Graduate Transforming to Accelerated Frames in Special Relativity

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Graduate GR explanation of Newtonian Phenomena

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Graduate SR predictions on an recent microwave experiement

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Graduate Derivation Of Lorentz Transformation by Lawden

  • Hacky
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Undergrad When is a physical quantity time-like or space-like?

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Graduate Can Future Generations Really Travel Back in Time?

  • quantum123
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Graduate Einstein Field Equation purely in partial derivatives wrt x,y,z,t?

  • quantum123
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Graduate Moment of inertia corrected with relativity

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Graduate Is time perception solely influenced by time dilation?

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Graduate What does a spacetime interval of zero mean for objects traveling at c?

  • Point Conception
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Graduate How do we perceive curvature of time from gravity?

  • sanman
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Where Can I Find the Penrose Lecture Link Mentioned in the Forum?

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Graduate Pertinence of relativity of simultaneity

  • ice109
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Graduate Artificial Black Holes, again

  • Jake
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Graduate Researchers create gravity in lab experiment

  • SF
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Graduate Can matter reach light speed with infinite energy and spacetime engineering?

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Undergrad Is a uniform gravitational field a gravitational field?

  • MeJennifer
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Undergrad Constant Velocity: Does Time Dilation Occur?

  • CINA
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Graduate Lorentz's Derivation: A Historical Exploration

  • yogi
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Graduate Can a spacecraft near light speed plus a running person exceed light speed?

  • Holocene
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High School Can we travel faster than the speed of light?

  • Luke*
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Graduate Does the speed of light change in accelerating frames?

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Graduate Is energy conserved in an expanding universe?

  • Robert100
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Graduate What makes a derivation standard?

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Undergrad Speed of light relative to universe expansion?

  • tommyburgey
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Undergrad Why does a clock run slower near a gravitational field?

  • Holocene
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Graduate Photon beyond light speed?(?tachyon?)

  • madphysics
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Graduate Light under light gravitational force

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Graduate Is expansion of space relative?

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