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Graduate Traveling Fast and Infinite Mass
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Undergrad Everything in the universe is related
- Caesar_Rahil
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Graduate What Explains the Variation in Gamma-Ray Burst Spectral Time Lags?
- wolram
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Graduate Will Gravitons Redefine Our Understanding of the Electromagnetic Spectrum?
- Vast
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Graduate Beginner Help on Minkowski Space (and others)
- dekoi
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Undergrad Can gravitons travel in a vacuum?
- bola
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Undergrad How do you explain the twin paradox to a friend
- GSwindle
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Graduate Some conceptual questions on SR
- Reshma
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Graduate Tachyons & Time: Does Faster Mean Before?
- Caesar_Rahil
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Graduate Traveling to the Future with Speed of Light - Can it be True?
- gunblaze
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Graduate Einstein's Quest for Unifying SR & GR with EM
- εllipse
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Graduate Place to discuss the Theory of Relativity
- Daminc
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Graduate Einstein's Belief: Everything Moving at Speed of Light?
- RAD4921
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Graduate Lorentz Contraction of a Rotating Object
- SahinTC
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Graduate Time and the Sound Barrier: How Fast is Too Fast?
- Tjl
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Graduate What Is Minkowski's Geometric in Relativity
- yukcream
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Graduate Gravity of Light: Can a Laser Beam Generate Its Own Field?
- Iridium
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Graduate Escaping Black Holes: Is It Possible?
- melknin
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Graduate Absolute vs. Relative: Explaining Relativistic Effects
- Eppur si muove
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Graduate J Baez' The meaning of Einstein's Equations
- DaTario
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Graduate Is time relative for each observer in motion?
- Jeremy
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Graduate How to calculate speed of gravity in GR?
- cefarix
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Undergrad Asking the Big Questions: Gravity Explained
- shrumeo
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Graduate The difference between felt, and unfelt motion.
- LosBoogie
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Graduate Why Minkowski spacetime and not Euclidean spacetime?
- cefarix
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Undergrad How do you explain the twin paradox to a friend
- GSwindle
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Graduate Minkowski spacetime interval's Lorentz invariance
- cefarix
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Graduate General Relativity And Quantum Mechanics
- abercrombiems02
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Graduate Experiences of particles moving at relativistic speeds in non-vacuum
- ACG
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Graduate Does Quickly Moving Object Have More Gravitational Mass?
- LeonhardEuler
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Undergrad What Are Gravity Waves and How Do They Work?
- amt
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Graduate Resolving the Twin Paradox: A Mathematical Approach
- rczmiller
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High School The Basics of General Relativity Explained
- yukcream
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Graduate Special Relativity Knowledge Challenge (for experts only)
- Aer
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Undergrad The Speed of Light: Theory of Special Relativity
- Rainbow
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High School What in the world does E =mc2 mean?
- Matthias765
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Graduate Do Massless Particles Like Gravitons Interact With the Higgs Field?
- nabodit
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Graduate Energy in a volume changing the geometry
- DaTario
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High School Twin Born On Earth and in Space - Age Difference
- aznpride2pac
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Graduate Theory of General Relativity: Reason for Heavenly Bodies Creating Spacetime Dent
- Rainbow
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Graduate Gravity Probe B: Gyroscope Orientation and Precession
- Paulanddiw
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Graduate Understanding Relativistic Kinetic Energy in Lab Experiments
- Pengwuino
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Graduate Twin paradox, live via satellite
- Pengwuino
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Graduate Questioning Relative Mass Magnification by a Moving Observer
- DaTario
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Graduate Blackhole decay and gravitational wave
- nabodit
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Undergrad Is the Big Bang Theory Misunderstood in Terms of Expansion and Gravity?
- yourdadonapogostick
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Graduate New Paper: GR implies no dark matter
- selfAdjoint
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Graduate Is the Twin Paradox Misunderstood in Terms of Aging Differences?
- DaTario
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Graduate Angular momentum at near-c velocities
- Mortimer
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Graduate What are the prerequisites for understanding Lorentz transformations?
- preet0283
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Graduate Can particles and geometry coexist in gravitational theory?
- mewmew
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Graduate Fermi-Walker transport - problem with a minus sign
- mikeu
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Graduate Relativistic Mass: Inertial & Gravitational Effects
- Antiphon
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Graduate On the Relativity of Lengths and Times
- paco1955
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Graduate Prove rectilinear motion given four-acceleration and four-velocity?
- learningphysics
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Graduate Simultaneity in IB Exam Q: Person A & B's Perspective
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Graduate Noether's theorem and Time invariance?
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Graduate Special Relativity and Mass Variation
- rczmiller
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Graduate Is Euclidean Quantum Gravity the Future of Nonperturbative Physics?
- CarlB
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Graduate Prove Tidal Distortion Volume Conservation Mathematically
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Graduate Time machines and rotating cylinders
- DaveC426913
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Graduate What do we know about gravitation?
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Undergrad Why is gravity described as bending space instead of just an attractive force?
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Graduate An old new kind of observer dependency: is v > c possible if nobody was looking?
- EnumaElish
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Graduate Accomodating relativity to dark matter
- Loren Booda
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Graduate Question about Wave equation for light in nonflat spaces
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Graduate Is Time a Dimension or a Field?
- pattylou
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Graduate H and Infinity: What Happens to Time and Distance at the Event Horizon?
- Draya22
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Graduate Why Must the Universe Expand or Contract According to General Relativity?
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Graduate General Relativity and EM - Heim Theory
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Graduate Einstein's:Mass increase resulting from Acceleration increase
- Spin_Network
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Graduate Is Rotation in x and y Invariant at the Origin in a Rotating Coordinate System?
- pervect
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Graduate Understanding the Dot Product in Fermi Normal Coordinates
- mikeu
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Graduate Gravity doughnut may solve time travel problem
- Ivan Seeking
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Graduate Fermi-Walker transport non-rotating particle
- pervect
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Graduate Gravitational redshift +blackbody spectrum
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Graduate Can spacetime as a rubber sheet be taken literally or merely as pedagogic?
- EnumaElish
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Graduate How Does General Relativity Explain the Motion of Earth and Light?
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Undergrad General Relativity in the Undergraduate Physics Curriculum
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Graduate Relativity - facing backwards on a train
- rczmiller
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Undergrad Why does light accelerates after being slowed down
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Graduate Why Do Photons Travel at the Speed of Light?
- ludi_srbin
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Graduate C constant to the observer as well?
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Graduate General Relativity Postulates and History of Publication
- εllipse
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Undergrad Will Pushing One End of a 2 Light Second Rod Move the Other End?
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Graduate The effect of wormholes on photons
- professor
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Graduate Proofing a few paragraphs on relativity
- jason_one
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Graduate Light in a Black Hole: Does It Escape or Lose Energy?
- Päällikkö
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Undergrad Meaning of frames in relativity
- Lakshminarayanan.V
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Graduate Energy of motion at high speed
- lechiffre
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Graduate Trying to track down one of the popular physics books
- lechiffre
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Graduate Special Relativity & General Relativity: Length, Time, and Motion
- yourdadonapogostick
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Undergrad What Makes the Speed of Light and Gravity So Fascinating?
- Saiarii
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Graduate Lorentz Invariant: What & When?
- Ratzinger
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Undergrad Does Magnetism Curve Space and Time
- gonegahgah
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Graduate Can Time Dilation be Determined in a Constantly Accelerating Frame?
- Aer
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Undergrad Measurements of time/distance be dependent on an object's velocity
- jason_one
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Graduate A question about relativity model
- Ar edhel
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Undergrad What is the shape of a black hole and how does it appear from behind?
- izzie
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Graduate Time Dilation & Generalization of SR: Beyond Light
- Päällikkö
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