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High School Time Is Relative: What Does It Mean?
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Graduate GR & 3rd Law: A Thought Experiment
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Graduate Aetherists and the doppler effect
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Graduate Does Space Expand Faster Than Light Beyond Our Observable Universe?
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Undergrad Questions about the speed of light
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Graduate Special Relativity and Thermal Physics finals
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Graduate Time difference: light emitted vs observed
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Graduate Can Space Travel Faster Than the Speed of Light?
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Graduate Time and Space dilation and contraction
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Graduate Question about cause of curvature of spacetime
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Graduate Charge Dilation: Mass/Energy Increase, Charge Constant
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Graduate Curved spacetime is described by a manifold
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Graduate Questions on Spacetime Curve/Gravity
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Undergrad Lorentz- and Galileian-transformation
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Graduate Do Antitachyons Travel Slower Than Light?
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Graduate Bending of Light around a Star
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Graduate Photon passing through a black hole?
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Graduate Why is the Angle Between Timelike Vectors Given by g(X,Y)?
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Graduate Searching for "Perihelium Precession Problem" Derivation in General Relativity
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Graduate Potential energy and GR, something doesn't add up
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Graduate If SR Wrong: Difficulties, Paradoxes, Instantaneous Signals
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Jerry Noble and His Theory: Unveiling a Mystery
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Graduate Circular Twin Paradox: Non-Linear Acceleration and Age Differences Explained
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Graduate Why is light traveling through the ether not just at speed c?
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Graduate Detecting Space Time: Gravitational Radiation
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Undergrad Einstein's E=mc^2: How Did He Reach His Equation?
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Graduate Lorentz transform as a complex function
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Graduate Highschool student interested in cosmology
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Graduate What Are the Energy and Wavelength Limitations of Light?
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Graduate Space-Time Geometry: Consequences of Minkowski's Relativity
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Undergrad Black Hole: Seeing Inside & Out
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Graduate Why Is the Position 4-Vector Contravariant While the Del Operator Is Covariant?
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Graduate How does Einstein's theory explain gravity's effect on Earth's curvature?
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Graduate How Does Weak Coupling Between Matter and Space-Time Affect Cosmic Structures?
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Graduate Is the speed of light measurement dependent on local clocks?
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Graduate Antigravity like soluctions of Einstein equations
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Undergrad The Significance of C in Einstein's Famous Equation E=MC^2
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Graduate Understanding Kinetic Energy in Special Relativity
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Graduate A variation on the twin paradox
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Graduate A positronium atom decays into two photons c+c=c
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Graduate Is the Sagnac effect a valid argument against Relativity?
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Graduate Relativistic Dynamics: Conservation Laws Necessary?
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Undergrad Space Travel: Time Dilation at Near Light Speed Explained
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Graduate How do Orbits behave as orbital velocities become significantly relatavistic
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High School Einstein's Childhood: The Roots of SR?
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Graduate GR, SR and the Sagnac effect question
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Graduate What is the constant velocity curve of an accelerating spaceship?
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Graduate Magnetism & Relativity: Uncovering the Link Through Free Resources
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High School Kumar's Explanation of the Twin Paradox
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Graduate What Angular Velocity is Required for Relativistic Effects?
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Graduate There is no really good definition of mass?
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Graduate Gravity/acceleration equivalent?
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Graduate Infinity in Finite Proper Time
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Graduate Rotations in special relativity
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Graduate Calculating Time Dilation for Travel to Alpha Centauri
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Graduate What is the Relativator and How Does It Explain the Theory of Relativity?
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Graduate Photons in the derivation of relativistic equations
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Graduate Concerns about ontological interpetations of Theory of Relativity
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Graduate What Does the Pace of Time Reveal About the Universe?
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Graduate Can Superluminal Expansion Really Exceed the Speed of Light?
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Graduate Is Lambda a True Force or Merely a Geometric Distortion in Spacetime?
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Graduate Schwarzchild and Reissner-Nordstrom singularities
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Undergrad Not able to fully understand what im reading
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Graduate Time Dilation: Does Traveling Perpendicular Affect Speed?
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Graduate Gravity: Equivalence or Equal? | Tony's New Theory
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Graduate Different speeds of light w/ Planck Units
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Graduate Faster than light communication and signals moving backwards in time
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High School Ageing in Space: Fact or Fiction?
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Graduate Momentum and penetration depth
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Graduate Traveling at Light Speed: Is the Speed Constant?
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Graduate Can we project a 4D object onto the 3D world?
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High School If C cannot be achieved, then how can light achieve C?
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Graduate Understanding Information Propagation in Special Relativity: Explained
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Graduate The Eternal Perspective of Photons: A Scientific Exploration
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Graduate Question on speed(of light that is)
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Graduate A Puzzling Paradox: Can Light Reach Infinite Velocity?
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Undergrad My Black Hole Theory: Ely Curless
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Graduate How light is deflected by gravitational field
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Graduate Why is space-time 3+1 dimensional?
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Graduate How Can Objects Be Compressed Beyond Their Physical Space?
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Graduate First experimental verification of GR
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Graduate Is the Changing Clock Rate in Relativity Directionally Dependent?
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Graduate Is the Riemann tensor always zero for the Rindler metric?
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Graduate Can a photon get trapped in orbit around a black hole?
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Graduate How Does the Twin Paradox Affect Time Perception in Accelerating Spaceships?
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Graduate Newtonian Limit in G.R.: Differences Explained
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Graduate Faster than the speed of Light ?
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Graduate How Can I Calculate Time Dilation Between Two Observers?
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Graduate Does a wristwatch measure imaginary time?
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Graduate How can the Komar mass formula be simplified for a general static metric?
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Undergrad How Can Light Have Mass Yet Fail to Escape a Black Hole?
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Graduate Searching for Ricci Scalar in Schwarzschild Metric
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Graduate Relativity is broken"Relativity Broken: Uncovering the Mystery
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Graduate Relativistic Velocity: Can I Run Faster Than Light?
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Graduate Imaginary Mass: Understanding Tachyons
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Graduate Bus that is travelling at the speed of light
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Graduate What Are the Time Frame Differences Between Us and Quasars?
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Graduate Vacuum with cosmological constant
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Graduate Relativistic Apple: Feel Gravitational Effects?
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