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Is a change in earth's surface gravity detectable?
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GR Questions: Light & Gravity Effects
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What is the Entropy Value of a 5 Solar Mass Black Hole?
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The difference b/t free fall and outer space
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Length Contraction and the Bomb Paradox
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What is the Speed of Light, Dark Matter?
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Energy Reference Frames: Consensus on Object Energy Across Different Observers?
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Angular Contraction: Wheel Rotation & Ruler
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What Starter Texts Can Help Understand Differential Geometry for GTR?
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Exploring the Effects of Space Time Expansion on Unbound Bodies
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How fast is a relativistic velocity?
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Speed of light and length contraction
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Definition of a clock in relativity theory
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I'm holding a pole and running at a relativistic velocity
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Light Around Black Holes: Can It Orbit?
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Anyone here look at Einsteins calculations?
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NASA's Gravity Probe B: Testing Einstein's Theory of Relativity
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Will Hawking or Penrose ever win Nobel Prize?
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Relativistic Doppler effect (for sound?)
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Calculating Time Dilation: A Lorentz Transformation
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What Is the Difference Between Dark Matter and Dark Energy?
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Request for Opinion on DW's Excellent Website - Geocities.com/zcphysicsms
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Why do the Einstein Field Equations have multiple solutions?
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What Happens to Light Speed When Measured from a Fast-Moving Space Station?
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Weyl Curvature, Mach's Principle, and Heisenberg Uncertainty?
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Dought regarding equivalence principle
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Question about special relativity
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Metrics in Special Relativity & General Relativity
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Solution to GR Field Equations
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Time Distortion Debate: Tom & Jerry's Tennis Ball Experiment
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Uniformity of dark energy distribution
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Can Relativity Prove Existence?
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Time Dilation: Is Distance a Factor?
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Is Time Travel Possible When Objects Cannot Coexist in Different Time Periods?
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What is the true relationship between speed and mass?
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Does Time have a beggining? an End?
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Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light
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Mass, Inertia, Charges & Space-Time: Positioning in Order
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Speed of Light Broken? | Special Relativity
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How Does Gravity Shape Space-Time Beyond Simple Indentations?
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Why is then Time Travel possible?
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What is the primary concept between absoluteness and relativity?
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Metric Tensor & 4-Vector: Unit of Measurement
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Movement through space or movement through time?
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Does mass decrease with expansion
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Questions of the equivalence principle
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What Did Einstein Mean by "Everything Travels at the Speed of Light"?
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Equivalence and derivation of general relativity
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Why Can't Anything Travel Faster Than Light?
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Clarifying Confusion: Understanding Einstein's Theory of Relativity
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Today Special Relativity dies
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Is the temperature of a black hole infinite as its mass approaches zero?
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Solving the Riddle of Sorts: Who Signed the Peace Agreement First?
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Red shift frequency from a black hole
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Today Special Relativity is still alive
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If we are light, what would we see?
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Does the gravitational force actually exist?
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Unification of Quantum Theory and General Relativity
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Resolve the Bug-Rivet Paradox - Strange SR Paradox
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Curvature and General Relativity
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Relativity Paradox: Clock Readings at B & B*
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Why Does Time Behave So Uniquely in the Sun's Core?
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Official speculation as to constant c
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Experimental support for SR & GR
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Can string/brane theory generate spacetime warps with gravitons?
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Curvature of reciprocal Euclidean space
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Two event horizons in close proximity
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Will 2025 be the next big celebration for physics?
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Richard Feynman's Spacetime Paradox: Can We Know Things in Space-Like Intervals?
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Entropy & Black Holes: The Relationship Between Area & Information
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Gravity & LIGO: Wave Length, Amplitude & Gravitons
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Calculating speed from acceleration
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Einstein's Train and a simple consequence
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Equivalence principle + light speed postulate =
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General relativity and Newton's laws
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I can't see how stress-energy tensor meets the minumum tensor requirement
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Why do people talk as if the Twin Paradox is problematic?
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What is the Relationship Between Space and Time?
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How are the Riemann tensor of curvature and the Hamilton operator connected?
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One-off: Black drop problem an SR effect?
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Riemann-Christoffel Covariant differentation
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Understanding Special Relativity: Counter Rotating Frames in Motion
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String theory verses Special Relativity
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Conundrum Regarding the Lack of an Absolute Frame of Reference
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Is It Possible to Escape a Black Hole Using Charge?
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Two Questions about Black Holes and Laws of Physics
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Understanding Relativity: Demystifying the GPS Satellite System Calculation
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Why is energy-momentum symmetry important in special relativity?
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Maximum Temporal Distance Between Events That Are Simultaneous in Another Frame
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Multiple Big Bangs: Could Symmetry Explain Quantum 'Spookieness'?
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Is Relativity Incorrect? Examining Motion and Perception Evidence
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Is Acceleration Relative Or Absolute
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Can Spinors Bridge the Gap Between Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity?
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The Derivative of Lorentz Transformation
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Gravitationally accelerated electron
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Can Gravity Escape a Black Hole Faster Than Light?
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Inertial reference frames
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Can light be instantaneous and yet measured as 'c'?
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Does the Michelson-Morley Experiment Support the Constant Speed of Light Theory?
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(1 - 2 GM/ r c^2) ^ 1/2 and Big Bang
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