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Undergrad Questions About Speed of Light & Time
- uk9999
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Undergrad Why does refraction of light involve a difference in speed?
- Evans of Sprot
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Undergrad Physics Crisis: Faith in Gravity Clarified
- T@P
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Graduate Who does time really slow down for?
- eNathan
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Graduate What are the earliest online publications discussing the Twin Paradox?
- Prague
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High School E =mc{squared} How Did He Arrive At This ?
- nu_paradigm
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Graduate Time travel and cosmic strings
- Hercule Poirot
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How Can I Use My Spaceship to Reset My Clock?
- The Rev
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Graduate Discover the AEther Bunny: Understanding Lorentz Relativity and Twin Aging
- RandallB
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Graduate How Does Time Dilation Affect Colony Ships A and B in Relativity Theory?
- Dropout
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Graduate Does anybody have a better analogy of describing space-time curvature?
- Dropout
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Graduate How Does Gravity Affect Time Near Earth's Core?
- RandallB
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Graduate Time Dilation and Video Transmission in Relativistic Spaceships
- Kilroy-was-here
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Graduate Relativity situation. Questions.
- hedons
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Graduate Gravity & Photons: Dynamics of a Hypothetical Closed Universe
- moving finger
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Undergrad I know how to travel faster than light :\
- eNathan
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Undergrad Lorentz transformations explanation?
- guevaramartyr
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Graduate Could Time Dilation Explain the Huge Redshifts Observed in Distant Stars?
- NewImage
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Undergrad Energy to Matter: Unlocking E=mc^2
- oldunion
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Graduate Does light bending doubly violate the equivalence principle?
- wisp
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Undergrad An odd sort of symmetry about E=MC^2
- Dropout
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Graduate Conservation Principle Related to Expanding Space?
- jrdev
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Undergrad Why Can One Train Start Up Faster Than the Other After Braking Nose to Nose?
- Jimmy Snyder
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Graduate The Twin Paradox Revisited: A Local Case Study
- Garth
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High School Magnetism & Gravity: Unravelling the Mysteries
- Someone502
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Undergrad The Twins Paradox: A Controversial Truth or a Perplexing Paradox?
- cire
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Undergrad What do you see at light speed?
- Raptor483
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High School Understanding Speed and Time: The Impact of Reaching the Speed of Light
- bayan
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Graduate What Are the Degrees of Freedom for a Massive Spin 1 Particle?
- joshuaw
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Graduate Question about GR - movement in space-time
- X-43D
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Graduate An exercise in eloquence: Basic GTR
- Crosson
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Graduate Is Phase Velocity Greater than c in Spacetime?
- spacetime
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Graduate What's the Flaw in the Relativity Paradox of Gravity and Speed?
- Shaw
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Undergrad Ether Drag Hypothesis Explained - 65 Characters
- Reshma
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Undergrad Using four-vectors in derivations and proofs
- JFo
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Undergrad Fleeing earth at the speed of light
- Pengwuino
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Undergrad Race Between Light and Runner: Who Wins?
- Razor436
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Undergrad Twins paradox need clarification
- Lakshminarayanan.V
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Graduate Definition of 4-vector quantities
- steveurkell
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Graduate Reverse engineering relativity?
- selfAdjoint
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Graduate What Are the Effects of Mass and Energy on the Universe's Future?
- DMuitW
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Time machine possible or impossilble
- Qyamat
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Graduate Tensor gradient and maxwell's equation
- steveurkell
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Undergrad Understanding Matter, Energy & Relativity - How This Can Be?
- Vereinsamt
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Graduate Invariants in general relativity
- eljose
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Graduate Derivation of Lorentz Transformations
- Ed Quanta
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Graduate Did the Fitzgerald-Lorentz Contraction Explain the Michelson-Morley Experiment?
- HannonRJ
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Graduate Second Postulate of Special Relativity
- Icebreaker
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Graduate Are Both Twins Equivalent in a Torus Universe with the Twin Paradox?
- touqra
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Graduate What Does 'Velocity' Mean for a Ray of Light?
- Symbreak
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Einstein Conference: US & Canada Events
- RandallB
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Graduate Question from I. KINEMATICAL PART § 1. Definition of Simultaneity
- arrell
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Graduate Why is time dilation expressed as t' in special relativity?
- DB
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High School E=MC^2 - Do I have this right?
- ShadowKnight
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Undergrad Is there a thread or website to learn the theory of relativity from A-Z?
- guevara0001
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Graduate Explaining a Paradox in Modern Physics
- genxhis
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Graduate Black Holes in the Very Early Universe
- DrChinese
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Graduate A little problem in general relativity;momentum
- haushofer
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Graduate What is the Limits of Lorentz Transformation when (v/c->1)?.
- controlfreak
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Graduate GR: Black Hole - Electrical Charge
- RandallB
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Graduate What explains the increase in mass at high speeds?
- Symbreak
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Graduate Harmless Lorentz transformation question
- Physicsguru
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Graduate Is only GR enough for proved the event horizon
- hypernova
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Graduate How Do Lorentz Transformations Work with Y and Z Components of Speed?
- quasar987
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Graduate Relativistic Mass of an Orbiting Billiard Ball
- Physicsguru
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Undergrad Relativistic Mass: Fact or Fiction?
- misogynisticfeminist
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Graduate Derivation of the momentum-energy relation
- misogynisticfeminist
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Graduate Is the General Theory of Relativity Worth Learning from a Troll?
- ClarkKent
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Graduate New to Relativity:Need Answers
- Raptor483
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Graduate Relativity and temperature question
- Physicsguru
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Einstein's Mass-Energy Equivalence
- quasar987
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Graduate Unification of GR and classical E&M
- metrictensor
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Graduate Why Does Light Have No Rest Mass While Other Particles Do?
- munky99999
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Graduate Weighing Mass of Photons in Different Directions
- gonzo
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Graduate Is matter truly keeping pace with the expansion of space?
- wolram
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Graduate Help with a little Gedanken experiment please?
- cepheid
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Undergrad Plank & Bullet Experiment: Questions Explained
- Infamo
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Undergrad Galilean Transformation Question
- misogynisticfeminist
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Graduate Time Reversed: Can Humans Think?
- eNathan
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Graduate RF SR: What If I'm Anchored to a Moving Train?
- misogynisticfeminist
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Undergrad Derivation of relativistic energy
- misogynisticfeminist
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Graduate Is time dialation really *time* dialation?
- CarpetFilter
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Graduate Hamilton-Jacobi equation for Gr
- eljose
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Graduate Relativistic effects in non-vacuous media
- freemind
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Graduate Possible solution for dark energy
- wolram
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Graduate Question About Relativistic Acceleration
- Physicsguru
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Undergrad What Experiments Provide Evidence for General Relativity?
- djmike
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Undergrad Unraveling the Gamma Factor Equation
- Infamo
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Undergrad Why does E=MC^2 require the speed of light and why is it squared?
- KingNothing
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Graduate How to retrieve the lenght-contraction from the LT?
- quasar987
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Graduate What is the accuracy of world time and can it be improved?
- wisp
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Graduate Einstein's Quadrapole Model for Gravity Waves
- yogi
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Graduate Time Travel: Examining the Possibilities
- CeeAnne
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Graduate Quick question for a confused English major
- Eldian
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Graduate Is gravitation faster than light?
- CarstenDierks
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Graduate Stationary Einstein-Vlasov system
- JohanL
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Has anyone heard any more about this guy
- Cosmo16
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Graduate What is the Mass Density of a Magnetic Field in Relativity?
- pmb_phy
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High School The Sun revolves around the Earth?
- eNathan
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Graduate How Does Sectional Curvature Define Spacetimes in General Relativity?
- hellfire
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