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Undergrad The Einstein Clock aka Light Clock
- DmitryS
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High School Train Fall Paradox
- anuttarasammyak
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Undergrad Integration of energy-momentum pseudotensor for Kerr BH
- anuttarasammyak
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Undergrad Why is the speed of light the same everywhere in the Universe?
- Rick16
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Graduate Jackson: justification of the Poynting vector by GR
- coquelicot
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Undergrad Relativity of simultaneity in actuality
- vibhuav
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High School Reciprocal time dilation
- fuentes1979
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High School Photon Energy Without Rest Mass – How?
- Uncle Thi
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Undergrad The wave equation interpretation of special relativity
- gentzen
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High School Is there a white hole inside every black hole?
- marees
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Undergrad Synchronizing clocks at different locations to measure speed of light
- ESponge2000
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Undergrad An invariant while crossing the horizon
- Tomas Vencl
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Undergrad I don't see how a black hole's event horizon can be crossed
- Foretranimal
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Undergrad Variation of the lightning train thought experiment
- FeynmanFtw
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High School Project GRE^2AT - GR on Mt. Ranier
- DaveC426913
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Undergrad How Is Intrinsic Curvature Measured in Higher Dimensions Like 4D Spacetime?
- geordief
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Undergrad Conventionality of the One-Way Speed of Light
- MrRobotoToo
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High School Trying to calculate proper time of worldlines using rotating frames
- Karin Helene Elise
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Graduate Reconciling units for the Einstein and Landau-Lifshitz pseudotensors
- Kostik
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Undergrad What Are the Limits of the Universe According to Cosmologists?
- .Scott
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Graduate Dirac's integral for the energy-momentum of the gravitational field
- Kostik
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Graduate Help me understand why “Block Universe” is not scientifically proven
- ojitojuntos
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High School Could we ever create a black hole?
- atlanticus
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Undergrad Follow-up Einstein Definition of Simultaneity for Langevin Observers
- cianfa72
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Undergrad Symmetry of motion in the special theory of relativity
- qnt200
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Undergrad Hawking After 54 Years Confirmed: BH surfaces don't shrink
- fresh_42
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Undergrad A sufficient condition for integrability of equation ##\nabla g=0##
- Jianbing_Shao
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Undergrad Follow-up on the Expanding Universe Insight article
- cianfa72
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Insights Relativator (Circular Slide-Rule): Simulated with Desmos - Insight
- Greg Bernhardt
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Undergrad How do Tensors "work" in relation to linear algebraic objects?
- Sciencemaster
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Undergrad Confused about time dilation -- motion vs energy
- mr John wheeler
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Graduate 1-Way Speed of Light
- James Hasty
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Graduate Gravitational Analysis of Wide Binaries
- juggler
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Undergrad Mass conservation in black holes
- Ranku
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High School How can a black hole absorb matter?
- Line_112
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Undergrad Please explain how length contraction and time dilation result in a constant c
- Amin2014
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Undergrad Can this experiment break Lorentz symmetry?
- Asaad-Hamad
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Undergrad MTW exercise 21.26: junction conditions for a thin shell of dust
- JimWhoKnew
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Undergrad Eddington’s margin of error
- Jedothek
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High School Can frame dragging do this?
- Ankit Doshi
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Undergrad Understanding the historical shift away from absolute simultaneity
- Iskandarani
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Graduate Is there any topology behind factor 2 in Schwarzschild radius?
- Anton Rize
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Graduate Is the constancy of c a postulate or a derivable theorem?
- Iskandarani
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Undergrad How do non-diagonal indices of a metric allow for local flatness?
- Sciencemaster
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Undergrad Transformation for Lemaitre coordinates
- Dale
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High School What reference frame is used for the velocity v in the Lorentz transformation?
- Huangdongcheng
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High School Oberth Effect Near Sag A*
- Devin-M
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Graduate Error in Landau-Lifshitz Vol 2, equation (2), page 277
- shin1980
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High School Debating the Validity of a Conversion Factor for Mass-Energy Equivalence
- suoercat
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High School Can an expanding EM be quantized: E=mc^2?
- physicsforman
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Undergrad Gravitation (MTW) Misner Thorne Wheeler - 50 years (RIP) C.W.Misner
- robphy
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High School Conservation of kinetic energy in expanding space
- rocknrollkieran
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Graduate A global energy conservation law in general relativity
- Kostik
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Undergrad Gravitational lensing of gravitational waves - real?
- Al_
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Graduate Uncertainties in the proof of Proposition 4.4.2 in Hawking and Ellis
- gasgas
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Graduate Weinberg's proof of ##{T^{\mu\nu}}_{,\nu}=0## for a perfect fluid
- Kostik
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Graduate How do you convert the Pound–Rebka redshift into time variation?
- ARChohan
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High School Relativistic contraction factor
- south
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Graduate Looking for linear frame dragging formula
- Jonathan Scott
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Undergrad Freefall and gravity
- Ranku
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Graduate Dirac's "comprehensive action principle" -- independent equations
- Kostik
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High School Time dilation for two clocks at different altitudes on Earth
- zuz
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Graduate Dirac's "GTR" Eq (27.4): how momentum ##p^\mu## varies
- Kostik
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Undergrad How does GR deal with pointlike objects with mass?
- JC_Silver
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Undergrad Shwartzschild coordinate system
- omidj
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Undergrad How to calculate basis vectors from metric tensor (as a matrix)?
- Tachytaenius
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Graduate Weyl tensor and coordinate acceleration
- Povel
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High School Geometric and arithmetic means and contraction factor
- south
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Undergrad Question about a Square Light Clock
- south
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High School Gravity and speed of information for orbiting planets
- HansH
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High School A question about warp bubbles and navigation
- Luis
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Graduate Question about Weinberg's GR book
- LordShadow_05
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Graduate Singularity Formation and Breakdown Ricci Tensor
- Alien101
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Graduate The Causal Bootstrap Paradox in General Relativity
- Alien101
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Undergrad Theoretically, can perfectly flat spacetime exist in the Universe?
- John Constantine
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Undergrad Reframing Light Bending Using Density Instead of Radius
- Owe Kristiansen
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Undergrad Why Is the Speed of Light Essential in 4-Velocity Invariance?
- omidj
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Undergrad Intuitive look at bending of light by gravity
- Owe Kristiansen
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Undergrad A "continous" gravitational field formula r=0 to infinity
- Owe Kristiansen
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Graduate Question on Dirac's derivatives of the 4-velocity w.r.t. coordinates
- Kostik
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Graduate Sidney Coleman's Lectures on Relativity: New Book by CUP
- physicsworks
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Graduate Does the New Paper on Singularities Offer Proof of Their Existence?
- windy miller
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Graduate Tensors in null basis
- Antarres
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Undergrad ##\epsilon_{ijk}## in terms of ##\delta's##
- brotherbobby
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High School Does the gravitational distortion of mass still exist in the past?
- Giblet
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Undergrad Missing proof of the Shell theorem in General Relativity
- Bosko
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Graduate A Question on the TOV Limit: Continuous Forces vs. a Discrete Trigger
- euquila
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Undergrad Effect of Radiation Pressure on a Moving Object
- wnvl2
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Graduate Does the EP imply that a free-falling observer follows a geodesic?
- Kostik
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Undergrad Temporal length vs. Temporal displacement
- LeeE
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Graduate Covariant form of Maxwell's (inhomogeneous) equations (in GR)
- Kostik
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Graduate "TImescape" models
- pervect
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High School Mass of a gyroscope when rotating or not rotating
- HansH
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High School A photon always travels in a black hole
- Koning_D
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Undergrad Going Up-Down Elevator G-forces vs Bouncing off a Spring G-force
- ESponge2000
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High School Michelson Morley experiment and the Doppler effect
- Luyo_66
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Undergrad A thought about visualizing space-time
- InquiringMind
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High School Relativity and Biological Aging: How Time Dilation Slows Cell Activity
- faz19_
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Graduate Minimal property of Spacelike geodesics in GR/curved spacetime?
- Kostik
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High School An issue about the twin paradox
- dwspacetime
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