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Graduate The Limitless Fascination of Black Hole Mass: How Big Can It Get?
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Graduate Acceleration in Special Relativity
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Geometry and the Universe - A symposium on GR
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Graduate GR: A First Course Q: What is "That Region" on Page 226?
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Graduate Does the Force Propelling a Spaceship Affect the Speed of Light Emitted from It?
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Graduate Another Speed Of Light Travel Scenario
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Graduate Schutz, page 226 - Black hole formation
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Graduate Unification of space and matter
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Undergrad Why is the speed of light what it is?
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Graduate GR Contest: Uncovering the First Evidence of Revision
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Graduate Verifying Equations 9.45 & 9.46 in Schutz, pg. 224
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Graduate Nothing can exceed the speed of light
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High School Is the Sun Actually Orbiting the Earth?
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Graduate Energy of a photon in different frames.
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Graduate Stephen Hawking and time travel
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Graduate Faster Than Light Communication/Transportation Not Possible?
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Graduate Pastpaper on GR: Get Help & Resources
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Graduate Pp waves - Null dust solutions
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Graduate Lorentz contraction in Special Relativity
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Graduate Why is 4-velocity Vector u'=dx^i/ds?
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Graduate Ricci Decomposition: Questions & Answers
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Graduate Exploring the Interior/Exterior of a 3 Sphere in GR
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Graduate Question on Weak Energy Condition
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Graduate What Happens to Mass During the Annihilation of an Electron-Positron Pair?
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Graduate Solving a Relativity Problem: Two MAsses in Motion
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Graduate Does homogeneity infer isotropism?
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Undergrad Converting Energy to Mass: Is it Possible?
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Graduate The distance-dependent nature behind lorentz time-transformation
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Graduate How do you verify that v/c=pc/E?
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Graduate How to deal with the index in Einstein summation?
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Undergrad Is cheating going on in Relativity?
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Graduate What is the Folding Space Theory and its Potential Applications?
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Graduate Length Contraction & Angled Motion
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Graduate Proving Relativistic Kinetic Energy: (1/2)*(gamma)mv^2
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Graduate Simplifying Equations for Lorentz Boosts with Small Beta
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Graduate Question from Schutz, A First Course in GR
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Graduate Time Dilation and Differential Aging
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Graduate Relativity and Energy Transfer via Radiation
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Graduate Question on Phenomenology of Einsteins Field Equations
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High School Understanding Time Dilation: Explained in Simple Terms for Physics Enthusiasts
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Einstein And A Century Of Time
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Graduate Dual to Tensor: Meaning & -1/6 Explained
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Graduate Advice on GR book specific to my needs
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Graduate Is the Speed of Light Affecting Relativistic Phenomena?
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Graduate The Black Hole in a Spatially Compact Spacetime
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Graduate Einstein's Clock Synchronization Convention
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Graduate Relativistic contraction happens which way?
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Graduate Should the Special Relativity Principle be Reduced to a Tautology?
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Graduate Closed Universe Twins Paradox: No Acceleration?
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Undergrad Exceeding the Speed of Light: A Surprising Result with Two Squares on Paper
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Graduate Do gravity waves get bent by gravity?
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Undergrad The Constant Speed of Light: Investigating its Properties
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Undergrad Curtailed length and the twin paradox
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Graduate Do Primes in Lorentz Transformations Differ from Relativistic Effect Equations?
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Graduate Hawking, new theory on information paradox right or qwrong?
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Graduate Rank of Tensors: Questions & Answers
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Graduate Mysteries of the Big Bang: Is the Universe Made from Nothing?
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Graduate Why is gravity assumed to be a wave
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Graduate Coordinate transformations and acceleration
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Graduate What is the correct derivation of the relativistic rocket equation?
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Graduate Is gravity just the temporal gradients effect
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Graduate A Supposed alternative to GR I feel to be NonsenseClarification please
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Graduate What Are Contravariant and Covariant Tensors in Relativity?
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Graduate Sir Hermann Bondi (1919 - 2005)
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Graduate Antisymmetric 4-Tensor: Hodge/Duality Transformation Explained
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Undergrad Accelerated charges loose energy
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High School What are gravitational lenses?
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Undergrad Gravity Probe B Results: Preliminary Info
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Undergrad Curvature of light and its effect on reality
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Undergrad Get Formula for Rolf's 24-Hour Mars Trip
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Graduate Question 2: Relative events and space-time intervals
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Graduate The gravition and Einstein's equivalence principal
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Graduate Thoughts on Einstein’s Theories
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Undergrad Time travel is posibble or not ?
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Graduate Photon Mass: Debunking the Myth of Zero Mass in SR Equation
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Graduate Shear stress energy tensor in GR
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Graduate Question about Einstein's train and lightning
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Graduate Gravitational field of a moving object
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Graduate Through what medium does EM propagate in empty space?
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Graduate What Forms of Energy Could Exist if All Matter Transformed into Energy?
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Graduate Hypothetical; what would a rocket look like to an outside observor if
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Graduate Rotate Pencil About Axis AB: What Obs. C Sees
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Graduate Understanding Relativity: How a Mirror Reflects Your Image at Near-Light Speeds
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Undergrad Confused about fourth spatial dimension
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Graduate What is Relativity? Get Help Understanding It
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Finding Original Relativity Documents Online
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Graduate Understanding Abstract Physics: Gauge Functions & Properties of EM Fields
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Graduate Four-vectors, Minkowsky spacetime.
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Graduate Spacetime intervals again - still figuring out the formula
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Undergrad Special Relativity: 1st & 2nd Postulates Explained
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Undergrad Would it be possible to see into the past
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Graduate Is the Langevin Twins Paradox Validated by Other Experiments?
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Graduate Is the Redshift of Light at a Black Hole's Surface Infinite?
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Graduate Random questions + Geometric multidimensional patterns.
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Graduate The speed of light in a vacuum
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