Special and General Relativity Forum

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Graduate Solving a Relativity Problem: Two MAsses in Motion

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Graduate Does homogeneity infer isotropism?

  • Loren Booda
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Undergrad Converting Energy to Mass: Is it Possible?

  • Mandelbrot
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Graduate The distance-dependent nature behind lorentz time-transformation

  • Twukwuw
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Graduate How do you verify that v/c=pc/E?

  • asdf1
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Graduate How to deal with the index in Einstein summation?

  • yukcream
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Undergrad Is cheating going on in Relativity?

  • Sam Woole
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Graduate What is the Folding Space Theory and its Potential Applications?

  • Seeruk
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Graduate What happens to length contraction for angled motion?

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Graduate Proving Relativistic Kinetic Energy: (1/2)*(gamma)mv^2

  • asdf1
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Graduate Simplifying Equations for Lorentz Boosts with Small Beta

  • Jimmy Snyder
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Graduate Question from Schutz, A First Course in GR

  • Jimmy Snyder
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Graduate Time Dilation and Differential Aging

  • Sherlock
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Graduate Relativity and Energy Transfer via Radiation

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Graduate Question on Phenomenology of Einsteins Field Equations

  • robousy
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High School Explaining time dilation to someone with limited calculus

  • QuantumTheory
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Einstein And A Century Of Time

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Graduate What is the dual of a tensor and where does the -1/6 come from?

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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?

  • IAN STINE
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Graduate Should the Special Relativity Principle be Reduced to a Tautology?

  • Perspicacious
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Graduate Closed Universe Twins Paradox: No Acceleration?

  • infinitus
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Undergrad Can the intersection point of two tilted sheets exceed the speed of light?

  • nameta9
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Graduate Do gravity waves get bent by gravity?

  • jim_990
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Undergrad Does the speed of light change with the source's motion?

  • Avgiu
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Undergrad Curtailed length and the twin paradox

  • Quan Chi
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Graduate Do Primes in Lorentz Transformations Differ from Relativistic Effect Equations?

  • neopolitan
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Graduate Hawking, new theory on information paradox right or qwrong?

  • berty
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Graduate Why does tensor contraction reduce rank by 2?

  • yukcream
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Graduate If the universe expands forever, what was the big bang and where did it come from?

  • zelldot
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Graduate GRTensorJ - Books (physics/0509108)

  • robphy
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Graduate Why is gravity assumed to be a wave

  • jim_990
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Graduate Coordinate transformations and acceleration

  • Trilairian
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Graduate What is the correct derivation of the relativistic rocket equation?

  • StatusX
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Graduate Is gravity just the temporal gradients effect

  • jim_990
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Graduate Is k-calculus a viable alternative to general relativity?

  • Sir_Deenicus
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Graduate What Are Contravariant and Covariant Tensors in Relativity?

  • yukcream
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Graduate Sir Hermann Bondi (1919 - 2005)

  • robphy
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Collecting errors and suggestions for my physics website

  • pmb_phy
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Graduate What is the Hodge dual transformation and how does it work in relativity?

  • yukcream
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Undergrad Accelerated charges loose energy

  • vidmar
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High School What are gravitational lenses?

  • kiru
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Undergrad Gravity Probe B Results: Preliminary Info

  • Paulanddiw
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Undergrad Curvature of light and its effect on reality

  • Jeremy
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Undergrad Get Formula for Rolf's 24-Hour Mars Trip

  • Reaptor
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Graduate Question 2: Relative events and space-time intervals

  • yukcream
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Graduate The gravition and Einstein's equivalence principal

  • StatusX
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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 Why does the SR equation predict zero photon mass if c is lightspeed?

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Graduate Shear stress energy tensor in GR

  • blue_sky
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Graduate Einstein's train and lightning: relativity of simultaneity

  • robert Ihnot
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Graduate Gravitational field of a moving object

  • Ahmes
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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?

  • vidmar
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Graduate Hypothetical; what would a rocket look like to an outside observor if

  • Shanos
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Graduate Rotating a 2-light-second pencil in space: can observer A rotate the axis?

  • Yaaks
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Graduate What happens to your mirror reflection at 0.99c?

  • fusi0n
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Undergrad Can a 2D being find the third dimension using circle measurements?

  • sandesh trivedi
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Is there a thread about the speed of light slowing down?

  • Jimmy Snyder
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Graduate What is relativity and how does it affect time, mass and velocity?

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Finding Original Relativity Documents Online

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Graduate Gauge transformations in electromagnetic potentials and fields

  • francisco
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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 How do the two postulates of special relativity reconcile with velocity addition?

  • rocketboy
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Undergrad Would it be possible to see into the past

  • derek yau
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Graduate Is the Langevin Twins Paradox Validated by Other Experiments?

  • Yehuda
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Graduate Is the Redshift of Light at a Black Hole's Surface Infinite?

  • Macro
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Graduate Random questions + Geometric multidimensional patterns.

  • Temporarily Blah
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Graduate The speed of light in a vacuum

  • francisco
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Graduate How do I calculate tidal forces from gravitational potential derivatives?

  • Allday
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Graduate The nature of space, time and spacetime

  • playmesumch00ns
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Graduate What do the twins observe during the twin paradox trip?

  • Enos
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Graduate How Does Relativity Apply in Rotating Frames of Reference?

  • mikeu
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Critique of light clock derivation of time dilation

  • francisco
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Undergrad Either my professor made a boo-boo or I don't get it(regarding E=mc^2)

  • schattenjaeger
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Graduate Deriving Relativistic Mechanics Equation: \gamma

  • amcavoy
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Graduate Light Bending Effect in General Relativity: Understanding Gravitational Lensing

  • Spin_Network
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Undergrad Relativistic energy and matter

  • Zelos
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Undergrad Relativistic length contraction

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Undergrad Is Earth's Gravitational Field Zero at 900km Altitude?

  • samaank
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Graduate Is Time the Same for All Observers in Different Dimensions?

  • scilover89
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Graduate Relativistic velocity addition at 60 degree angle

  • pigasuspig
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Graduate Could infinite gravity waves from the big bang explain quantum entanglement?

  • magi
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Graduate In this section explaining relativity

  • asdf1
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Graduate Time in the Lorentz transformation

  • asdf1
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Graduate What happens to time when a body reaches the speed of light?

  • Nirav Chavda
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Graduate Is Relativistic Mass Still Relevant in Modern Physics Discussions?

  • Aer
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Undergrad So two ships leave earth in opposite directions

  • pigasuspig
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Relativity challenge website and attempts to disprove Einstein

  • mruncleramos
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Graduate Can squeezed light bubbles transmit FTL without causality violation?

  • Iridium
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Graduate Did Einstein derive E = mc²?

  • vincentm
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Graduate A better way to imagine the time space continuum.

  • the_truth
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High School Why is the speed of light independent of the observer's motion?

  • LedZep_Kamal
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Graduate Linear vs Sagnac: Examining Arrival Time Differences

  • TheAntiRelative
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Graduate Is the Hafele-Keating experiment really reliable?

  • Yehuda
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