Special and General Relativity Forum

Graduate Do Observers at Rest See Time Dilation When Others Stop Instantaneously?

Graduate Can magnetic fields be canceled by relative motion in special relativity?

Graduate Train braking paradox: does simultaneity affect whether the train passes the platform?

Graduate Light's Mass: 0 N = Infinite Acceleration?

Graduate Understanding Ricci and K Curvature in 2 Dimensions: A Simple Explanation

Undergrad Assume I travel near c from a planet 5 light years away

Graduate Would a Universe-Mass Black Hole Trigger a Big Bang?

Graduate Charged particle in a magnetic field

Undergrad Gravitational Wave: Does Vibrating Mass Emit Waves?

Graduate Weak and strong equivalence principles

Graduate Does spatial contraction increase an object's density in my frame?

Graduate Paths of Objects in GR: Acceleration vs Constant Velocity

Undergrad Is the definition of physics as matter and energy redundant in special relativity?

High School What is the Reason for Gravitation?

Graduate A video intro to General Relativity

Graduate How does the size of a black hole affect its ergosphere and event horizon?

Graduate Can Shawyer's EmDrive Really Defy the Laws of Physics?

Graduate Light deflection at high speed

Graduate Must an observer be equidistant from two events for them to appear simultaneous?

Graduate EM Fields, Space-Time, Gravity: Unifying Theory?

Graduate Is it Possible to Beat a Beam of Light and Shake Hands with Yourself?

Graduate Is my understanding of time dilation correct?

Graduate Can Gravity and Electromagnetism Be Unified in Physics?

Graduate Does Rest Mass Affect the Bending of Spacetime?

Graduate Will O' Clocks Show Different Times?

Graduate Why can't you define linear momentum in curved spacetime?

Graduate How Do Observers in Different Frames Perceive Simultaneity Differently?

Graduate Twin paradox in a hyperspherical universe without acceleration

High School Light Physics: Can Photons/Electrons Travel Together?

Graduate Why is the speed of light constant in all reference frames?

Graduate Would collapsing objects reach infinite density or stop at some limit?

Undergrad Can the speed of light be slowed down and what would happen if it could?

Undergrad Red shifting light from moving and accelerating observers

Undergrad Velocity vs Distance - Clarifying a Moronic Question

Graduate Tidal forces in free fall to a neutron star vs expansion in FRW spacetime

Graduate Does Time Dilation Create a Sense of Slow Motion for Observers in Motion?

Graduate Will Accelerating a Massive Object Create a Black Hole?

Graduate How Accurate Are Recent Tests of General Relativity Using the Double Pulsar?

Graduate Can entanglement violate causality in special relativity?

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Graduate Painleve orbits in Cartesian Coordinates

Graduate Infinite Mass, Infinite Energy

Graduate Books for learning relativity with minimal math background

Graduate Relativity in Minkowski Space and Minkowski Diagram

High School Why Does Approaching the Speed of Light Affect Mass and Time?

Graduate =Special Theory Of Relativity=

Undergrad How is the universe expanding?

Undergrad Is the speed of light really changing over time?

Graduate Basis for the postulate that all physics is the same for all inertial reference frame

Graduate Can Massive Particles Ever Reach the Speed of Light?

Graduate Special Relativity Between Reality and Illusion

Graduate Why doesn't time dilation work symmetrically in the twin paradox?

Graduate General relativity and dark matter

Graduate Two asteroids separated by distance L and time dilation without length contraction

Graduate How Does Gravity Affect the Behavior of Light?

Graduate Concerned on the relativity of lengths

Graduate When moving fast, you're too busy to age

Graduate Charge Invariant: Intuitive Reason?

Graduate Why must the Lorentz Transformations Be Linear?

Graduate From SR to GR in an easy math (and physical) way

High School No meaning to go backwards in time

Graduate Should i take differential geometry?

Graduate Why didn't Einstein just invent the concept of gravitational field?

Graduate What is the Best Self-Study Book for General Relativity?

Graduate Understanding Lorentz Equations and the Solution to Maxwell's Equations Variance

Graduate General Relativity + Electrodynamics #2

Graduate What is the Meaning of Force in General Relativity?

Graduate General Relativity + Electrodynamics

Graduate Relativistic Interpretation of the Kennedy Thorndike Experiment?

Undergrad What is the principle of equivalence in physics?

Graduate What Contracts During Length Contraction in Special Relativity?

Graduate Can resistance to acceleration reveal your absolute speed in relativity?

Undergrad Why do observers in special relativity see different measurements?

Undergrad Do black holes evaporate in an expanding universe?

Graduate There is no gravitational dipole

Graduate Does Time Stop in a Black Hole?

Graduate Does relative velocity have meaning in general relativity?

Graduate Does Relativistic Kinetic Energy Account for Mass Increase at High Speeds?

Graduate Time dilation calculation at 0.9c relative velocity

Graduate Magnetism and radiation as a consequence of SR

Graduate The Pseudo-Tensor H for Torsionless Space-Time?

Graduate Time dilation experiments with spacecraft

Undergrad Is Tensor Algebra Necessary to Understand General Relativity?

Undergrad Do relativistic and non-relativistic mass differ functionally?

Graduate Can near-lightspeed travel and quantum teleportation allow information from the future?

Graduate Free resources for learning special and general relativity

Graduate Galileo's Relativity: Theory of Clocks Synced by Signal?

Graduate Why can't light escape a black hole if it's the fastest thing?

Graduate How Can Numerical Solutions to General Relativity Enhance Computational Physics?

Graduate How Does the Twin Paradox Illustrate Time Dilation in Relativity?

Graduate Do gravitons curve spacetime or travel through flat spacetime?

Graduate Equations of Motion with Covariant Derivatives and Momentum Density

Undergrad Is Spacetime Curved by Gravity?

Graduate How Does Relativity Explain Magnetic Fields from Moving Charges?

Graduate C - Speed of Light: Is Time Relative?

Graduate Can space-time rotations create time machines in General Relativity?

Graduate Obtaining the Hamiltonian for Einstein's Lagrangian: A Wheeler-De Witt Approach

Graduate What are the limits of acceleration in special and general relativity?

Graduate Silly classical + relativity question.

Graduate Locality and non-locality in period measurement