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Graduate Gravity, Gravitons, and Geodesics.
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Request for Opinion on DW's Excellent Website - Geocities.com/zcphysicsms
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Graduate Why do the Einstein Field Equations have multiple solutions?
- kurious
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Graduate What Happens to Light Speed When Measured from a Fast-Moving Space Station?
- zoobyshoe
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Graduate Weyl Curvature, Mach's Principle, and Heisenberg Uncertainty?
- PFanalog57
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Graduate Length contraction and field theory
- kurious
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Graduate Dought regarding equivalence principle
- einstein_vishnu
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Graduate Question about special relativity
- µ³
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Undergrad Einstein's Constant: The Speed of Light Irrespective of Source
- HIGHLYTOXIC
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Graduate Metrics in Special Relativity & General Relativity
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Graduate What are the implications of gravity and other dimensions in our universe?
- Alkatran
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Graduate Solution to GR Field Equations
- zeronem
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Graduate Time Distortion Debate: Tom & Jerry's Tennis Ball Experiment
- RAD4921
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Graduate What Happens to Gravity Fields When They Change?
- Phymath
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Graduate Uniformity of dark energy distribution
- kurious
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Undergrad Can Relativity Prove Existence?
- Imparcticle
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Undergrad Time Dilation: Is Distance a Factor?
- Moose352
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Undergrad Is Time Travel Possible When Objects Cannot Coexist in Different Time Periods?
- Themuffinman
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Graduate What is the true relationship between speed and mass?
- Dook
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Graduate Dayton Miller's Ether-Drift: Fact or Fiction?
- PFanalog57
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Does Time have a beggining? an End?
- Themuffinman
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Undergrad Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light
- NanakiXIII
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Graduate Mass, Inertia, Charges & Space-Time: Positioning in Order
- Reflector
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Graduate If you back in time and shooting yourself, do you die?
- Edward Teller
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Graduate How Does Time Geometry Affect the Concept of Event Simultaneity in Relativity?
- Antonio Lao
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Graduate Time travel and Multiverse Theory
- chronus
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Graduate Time Travel: Paradox, Parallel or Repetitive?
- Whitestar
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Graduate Why Haven't Two Clocks on a Table Been Used to Measure Light's One-Way Speed?
- Martin Miller
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Graduate Speed of Light Broken? | Special Relativity
- Nenad
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Undergrad How Does Gravity Shape Space-Time Beyond Simple Indentations?
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Graduate Why is then Time Travel possible?
- HIGHLYTOXIC
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Undergrad Could 2D Time Revolutionize Tic-Tac-Toe Gameplay?
- Alkatran
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Is Time Travel Just a Concept?
- shadowman
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Graduate What is the primary concept between absoluteness and relativity?
- Michael F. Dmitriyev
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Undergrad Does Time Dilation Make Me See More?
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Graduate Metric Tensor & 4-Vector: Unit of Measurement
- Sammywu
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Undergrad Gravity: Attraction of Two Particles vs. Two Objects
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Graduate Has ayone seen the lost simultaneity?
- geistkiesel
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Graduate Visualizing Space: A Thought Experiment with a Rotating Rod and Flashlight
- petmar
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Graduate Movement through space or movement through time?
- kurious
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Graduate Does mass decrease with expansion
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Graduate Questions of the equivalence principle
- Garth
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Graduate What Did Einstein Mean by "Everything Travels at the Speed of Light"?
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Graduate Equivalence and derivation of general relativity
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High School Why Can't Anything Travel Faster Than Light?
- Riko
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Undergrad Clarifying Confusion: Understanding Einstein's Theory of Relativity
- Alkatran
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Graduate Today Special Relativity dies
- ram1024
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Graduate Is the temperature of a black hole infinite as its mass approaches zero?
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Graduate Solving the Riddle of Sorts: Who Signed the Peace Agreement First?
- Tom McCurdy
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Graduate Red shift frequency from a black hole
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Graduate Today Special Relativity is still alive
- Lama
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Graduate Michelson - Morley Experiment Revisited
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If we are light, what would we see?
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Graduate How do gravitons behave in relation to general relativity?
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Graduate Does the gravitational force actually exist?
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Graduate Unification of Quantum Theory and General Relativity
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Graduate Resolve the Bug-Rivet Paradox - Strange SR Paradox
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Graduate Curvature and General Relativity
- kurious
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Graduate Relativity Paradox: Clock Readings at B & B*
- yogi
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Graduate Why Does Time Behave So Uniquely in the Sun's Core?
- idontthinkright
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Undergrad What Happens to Gravitational Force at the Center of the Earth?
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Graduate Official speculation as to constant c
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Graduate Experimental support for SR & GR
- Chi Meson
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Graduate Can string/brane theory generate spacetime warps with gravitons?
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Graduate Curvature of reciprocal Euclidean space
- Loren Booda
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Graduate Two event horizons in close proximity
- kurious
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Will 2025 be the next big celebration for physics?
- quartodeciman
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Graduate Richard Feynman's Spacetime Paradox: Can We Know Things in Space-Like Intervals?
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Graduate Entropy & Black Holes: The Relationship Between Area & Information
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Graduate Can Gravitational Waves Influence Photon Polarization in EPR Experiments?
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Graduate Gravity & LIGO: Wave Length, Amplitude & Gravitons
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Undergrad Calculating speed from acceleration
- confutatis
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Graduate False Claims of Gravity Propagation Limit
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Graduate Do Gravitons Lose Energy in a Proton's Gravitational Field?
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Graduate Einstein's Train and a simple consequence
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Graduate Isn't this a weak basis for time paradoxes ?
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Graduate Equivalence principle + light speed postulate =
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Graduate General relativity and Newton's laws
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Graduate I can't see how stress-energy tensor meets the minumum tensor requirement
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Graduate Why do people talk as if the Twin Paradox is problematic?
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Graduate What is the Relationship Between Space and Time?
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Graduate How are the Riemann tensor of curvature and the Hamilton operator connected?
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Graduate One-off: Black drop problem an SR effect?
- OneEye
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High School Gravity Above 8000km: How Distance Affects Attraction
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High School Unraveling the Time Travel Paradox - The Truth About Space and Time
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Graduate Riemann-Christoffel Covariant differentation
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Undergrad Help With Dilation: Get Answers Here
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Graduate Can you solve Einstein's Train Paradox?
- geistkiesel
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Graduate Understanding Special Relativity: Counter Rotating Frames in Motion
- DW
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Graduate String theory verses Special Relativity
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Graduate Conundrum Regarding the Lack of an Absolute Frame of Reference
- loseyourname
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Graduate Measuring Time: A Revolutionary Method
- geistkiesel
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Graduate What is the relative speed of photons?
- StarThrower
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Graduate Is It Possible to Escape a Black Hole Using Charge?
- Narcissus
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Undergrad Two Questions about Black Holes and Laws of Physics
- mrjeffy321
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Graduate Understanding Relativity: Demystifying the GPS Satellite System Calculation
- Doctordick
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Graduate Why is energy-momentum symmetry important in special relativity?
- krab
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Graduate Maximum Temporal Distance Between Events That Are Simultaneous in Another Frame
- loseyourname
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Graduate Multiple Big Bangs: Could Symmetry Explain Quantum 'Spookieness'?
- Reflector
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Graduate Is Relativity Incorrect? Examining Motion and Perception Evidence
- wespe
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