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Graduate Looking out the window of a fast ship

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Undergrad How fast does a clock tick at Earth's center compared to the surface?

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Graduate Why does a moving observer see lightning flashes at different times?

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Graduate Liftetime of photons in matter

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Graduate Frame fields vs. Coordinate bases

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Graduate Does gravitational waves participate in gravitation interaction?

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Graduate How is 3-space curved without a fourth spatial dimension?

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Graduate Some simple minded aspects of gravity

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Undergrad Relationship between E=mc^2 and gravity

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Graduate What is it about speed that affects time?

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Graduate Can time dilation let a fast ship warn Alpha Centauri of danger?

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Graduate Does angular momentum approach infinity as a star collapses to a black hole?

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Graduate Which direction did they measure a meter?

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Undergrad What do the variables mean in the Lorentz factor formula?

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Graduate General Relativity vs Newtonian Mechanics

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Graduate Is Acceleration Truly Relative or Absolute in the Context of General Relativity?

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Graduate How Does Time Function as a Fourth Dimension in Our Solar System?

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Graduate Gravitomagnetism and acceleration

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Graduate What Is the Physical Meaning of the Torsion Tensor in General Relativity?

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Graduate Has the Hawking-Penrose Debate Shaped Modern Physics?

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Graduate Why is the Einstein-Hilbert action the right choice for gravity?

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Graduate Are time and gravity essentially the same thing in general relativity?

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Graduate Can we define a full orbit without choosing a reference frame?

  • MeJennifer
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Graduate Practical meaning of simultaneity calculations?

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Graduate Question About Speed of Light and Energy

  • Arepo
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Undergrad How are the photoelectric effect and special relativity related?

  • paradoxical67
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Graduate Understanding Velocity Transformation: A Crucial Factor in Particle Motion

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High School Does Earth's Gravitational Pull Increase with Object Proximity?

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Graduate How Does a Black Hole Affect the Human Body?

  • pgcurt
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Graduate Why did Einstein define speed of light as a constant and time as a variable?

  • EnumaElish
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Graduate Can All Clocks in an Inertial Frame Simultaneously Read Zero?

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Graduate Can non-gravitational forces cause time dilation and spacetime curvature?

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Graduate Can Special Relativity Solve the Twin Paradox in a Gravitational Field?

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Graduate GPS, GR, satellites and clock speed on the satellites

  • OS Richert
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Graduate Temperature and speed of clocks

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Graduate Observing an astronaut falling into a black hole

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Graduate What is the definition of general covariance ?

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Graduate Photon wavelength in expanding universe

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Graduate How Can I Understand Slowly Rotating Perturbations of the Whittaker Metric?

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Graduate How Does General Relativity Explain Why We Always See the Same Side of the Moon?

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Undergrad Does gravity accelerate light or just bend its path?

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Graduate Can you perturb a metric tensor and keep it valid?

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Graduate Can Adding a Constant to the D'Alembertian Maintain Relativistic Invariance?

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Graduate Schwarzschild black hole/kruskal extension

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Graduate Relativistic Limit of Tardyon Momentum and Mass

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Graduate Spacetime, the Universe, the Present and the Future

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Graduate Challenging the Speed of Light: The Curious Case of Opposing Photons

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Graduate Why does the time dilation formula give a larger value for the moving frame?

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Graduate Are time dilation from velocity and gravity cumulative?

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Graduate Antisymmetrized tensor product

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Graduate Why hasn't Gravity Probe-B announced its results?

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Graduate Expressing second and its derivatives in terms of seven SI base units

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Graduate Light's Instantaneous Wordline: Is Time Really Zero?

  • OS Richert
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Graduate Twin paradox again (yes again)

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Graduate What Are the Implications of Time Dilation on a Photon’s Speed and Perception?

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High School What is the first result on Gravity Probe B?

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Graduate Explain Independent Continuum: Einstein's Theory

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Graduate What is the mass of a photon and why does it have a mass?

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Graduate Question on Relativistic Doppler Shift

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Graduate Why is Planck time measured differently from other dimensions?

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Graduate Velocity Addition in MG and Light Scenarios

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Graduate Why should time be considered a 4th dimension?

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Graduate Is There an Absolute Rest Frame in a 2D Universe?

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Looking for a relativity movie

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Graduate Metric of supermassive black holes

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Graduate How Do CMB and Redshift Support Universe Expansion?

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Graduate A scientist’s transmitter emits a wavelength

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Thought experiment in space

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Undergrad Understanding the Impact of Mood on Perception

  • Loren Booda
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Undergrad What is Einstein's thought experiment about special relativity?

  • go9ers14
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Graduate Abraham Zelmanov's Chronometric Invariants

  • MeJennifer
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Graduate Could Time Dilation Make Us Age Differently on Other Planets?

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Graduate Are There PDEs in Special Relativity?

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Graduate Some Inertial Frames may br more Equivalnet than Others

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Graduate Understanding Relativity: Increasing Speed

  • neolayman
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Graduate Two Body Problem: Exact Solutions?

  • MeJennifer
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Undergrad I Need the explaination of The image of formation of black hole

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High School If I swing my arm, it can emit gravitational waves?

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Undergrad Transforming Kinetic Energy: A Geometric Approach

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Undergrad Why does time slow down for fast-moving objects in the twin paradox?

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Graduate Black hole entropy as a Noether Charge

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Graduate Proving invariance of scalar product

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Graduate Implications of geodesiacs(philosophical)

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Graduate Four-vector potential in d'Alembertian equation

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Graduate Questions about the speed of light.

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Graduate How to calculate invariant mass and energy in different reference frames

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Graduate Detonator paradox: why do different frames disagree on collision order?

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Graduate d'Alembertian operator applied to four-potential in EM

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Graduate What is the material that allows transverse but not longitudinal waves?

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Undergrad Twin #1 is calling twin #2 in mid flight on instant-stellar phone

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Graduate Metric versus Tetrad formulation of relativity

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Graduate What is the Twin Paradox in General Relativity?

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Undergrad How do people truly understand special relativity?

  • paradoxical67
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Undergrad Starting to learn about General and special relativity

  • David_Harkin
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Graduate Double Special Relativity (DSR) fake or real?

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Graduate Probably dumb question. problem understanding formula

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Undergrad Is there a way to intuitively understand proper time in special relativity?

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Graduate The physical nature of spacetime

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Graduate Doppler shift formula and the assumptions behind it

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Graduate Is the first postulate necessary?

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