Join in expert discussion on special and general relativity discussion. Relativity is the dependence of various physical phenomena on relative motion of the observer and the observed objects.
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High School Can mass/energy simply be distorted spacetime?
- physicsisdope
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Undergrad Principle of relativity in the proof of invariance of interval
- Mike_bb
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Undergrad Why are we looking for a graviton?
- revnice
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Undergrad Epstein diagrams and a traveling ship
- Myslius
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Graduate Ricci tensor for Fermi normal coordinates
- TimWilliams87
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High School Time Travel: Is it Physically Possible? | Scientific American
- jedishrfu
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Undergrad Question about geometrical engineering (placeholder name)
- Amazium
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Graduate "Looks" of gravitational wave emissions for an eclipsing ternary compact object?
- snorkack
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Graduate Is parallel transport exactly norm-preserving or only approximately?
- Kostik
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High School No object actually approaches the speed of light
- Atlan0001
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Undergrad What does g00 element of the Schwarzschild metric tensor tell us?
- ongoer
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High School Can anything work (including human brains) inside a black hole?
- Manan
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Undergrad Integral subbundle of 6 KVFs gives a spacetime foliation by 3d hypersurfaces
- cianfa72
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Undergrad A textbook passage describing coordinate lines in physical space
- gnnmartin
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High School When I jump up and down what is the Einsteinian way to describe it?
- ESponge2000
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Undergrad Twin Paradox Resolution
- CSnowden
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Undergrad Notion of parallel worldlines in curved geometry
- cianfa72
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High School Question about “Inertia arises from interaction with the Universe’s mass”
- ESponge2000
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Graduate Landau-Lifshitz pseudotensor - expressing the EM tensor ##T^{ik}##
- Kostik
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High School Space travel and time dilation
- Stas1234
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Undergrad Where is the mass in a black hole?
- snorkack
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Undergrad Can light be reflected in a black hole?
- happyparticle
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Undergrad Reconciling smooth spacetime with variable, rotating, earth gravity
- John Helly
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High School Is Gravity an illusion of a force but really a curvature of spacetime?
- ESponge2000
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High School Meaningfulness of the speed of light
- ginevradabenci
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Undergrad Measuring the Spacetime Interval with a Ruler
- Trysse
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Undergrad Does the metric in general relativity depend only on position because of the equivalence principle?
- ahmadphy
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High School One-Way Speed of Light
- shawnhcorey
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High School If light beam travels through a vacuum, then through diamond, then through more vacuum...
- ESponge2000
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Undergrad CTC on FLRW cosmological models
- cianfa72
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Undergrad About the meaning of "expanding universe"
- cianfa72
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Graduate Vanishing of an integral of a divergence over a closed surface
- Kostik
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Undergrad Spacetime topology of the Universe
- cianfa72
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Undergrad Clock rate in hyperbolic space-time manifold
- wreveley
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Undergrad E=mc^2 and acceleration
- cianfa72
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Undergrad [SR] light shot at an angle in a moving train
- roomie10
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Graduate Velocity Verlet for relativistic simulation
- Philip Koeck
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Undergrad Relativistic Doppler effect and refraction
- ahmadphy
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Undergrad "Exploring Time Perception Across Different Regions of Space"
- EntropicThinker
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Undergrad Black hole and coordinate time from the perspective of Alice outside
- Bellaella
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High School Do all events in my past lightcone have fewer past events in theirs?
- ESponge2000
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Graduate Dirac on localization of energy in the gravitational field
- Kostik
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Undergrad Field equation interpretation
- Yoel
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Undergrad Black hole formation and infinite redshift
- LightPhoton
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Undergrad Two-way light speed invariance
- cianfa72
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High School A question about the self consistency principle
- BadgerBadger92
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High School Prove the velocity of a moving object is absolute in one IRF?
- ESponge2000
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Undergrad Are equations for spacetime intervals correct?
- Mike_bb
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Undergrad Is there a maximum relativistic acceleration?
- Arend
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High School Drawing a Minkowski diagram to show multiple Points of View
- DaveC426913
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Undergrad Why is Rømer's light speed measurement not one-way?
- Warp
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High School Does Spacetime Have Physical Existence?
- Uncle Thi
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Graduate Value of quintessence while studying black hole thermodynamics
- djymndl07
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Undergrad Relativity of Simultaneity question (use Einstein synchronization)
- ESponge2000
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Undergrad How to correctly mark event B on the picture?
- Mike_bb
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Undergrad Non-Inertial Relativistic Dynamics
- Halc
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Graduate The wave vector ##k_\mu## in curved spacetime
- Kostik
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Undergrad Chain of lights falling into a black hole
- timmdeeg
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Graduate Spacetime model of evaporating black hole
- Dale
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Undergrad An alternative derivation of the equation of motion in General Relativity
- Bishal Banjara
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Undergrad Alive in one frame and dead relative to other?
- ahmadphy
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Undergrad You can't actually enter a blackhole?
- blackholesarecool
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Graduate Dirac's derivation of the action/Lagrangian for a free particle
- Kostik
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Undergrad Relating orthogonal accelerations in special relativity
- LightPhoton
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High School Simplest symmetrical time dilation question
- GR86
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High School Einstein thought experiment confusion: “light clock in a moving frame”
- ESponge2000
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Undergrad Angles between 4-vectors in special relativity?
- LightPhoton
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Undergrad Confusion about Cauchy surfaces
- Dale
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High School Is SpaceTime just DistanceTime?
- FRANKENSTEIN54
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Undergrad Lecture on Newtonian spacetime
- Dale
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High School The ONE Ring has been Found
- jedishrfu
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High School Theories about light and time near a black hole
- GR86
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High School Lowering a rope through the event horizon
- GR86
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Undergrad Path independence redshift photon
- wnvl2
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Undergrad Charged particles and electromagnetic waves in transparent media
- member 743765
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Undergrad Lasting effects of Mass and Distance Dilation
- Jkreider48
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Undergrad The Faraday disk in the context of the theory of relativity
- Ivan Nikiforov
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Undergrad 2 objects of enormous volume each in relative motion very close to c
- ESponge2000
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Undergrad When Does a Train Passenger Experience Complete Darkness in a Tunnel?
- ESponge2000
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Undergrad Matrix form of metric component transformation?
- farfromdaijoubu
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Undergrad Energy and reference frames
- Ivan Nikiforov
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Undergrad GR as Gauge Theory
- fresh_42
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High School Can we say that everything on the planet is made up of energy or matter?
- EVANDRUH
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Graduate A better way of talking about time?
- Yuras
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Undergrad Are Space and Time Just an Illusion in General Relativity?
- brotherbobby
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Graduate Curvature with different connections on the two-sphere
- pervect
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Undergrad Determinism & General Relativity: A Physics Primer
- intravenous
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Undergrad Transformation Riemann tensor to an accelerating frame
- wnvl2
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Undergrad SR: GA Multivector vs. Tensor notation, Maxwell's equations
- Sagittarius A-Star
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Undergrad Time dilation for two observers in relative motion
- Raytele
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Undergrad Electromagnetic field in different reference frames
- Jokar
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Graduate Speed of Light for Bonnor Beam
- diracs-cat
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Undergrad Time dilation and the human body
- Ricb
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Undergrad If electrons can be pointlike particles, why can't black holes?
- Feynstein100
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High School Is time travel... travelling from one 3 dimensional space time to another 3 dimensional space time?
- Judy
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Graduate Is Fatio–Le Sage's theory of gravitation an entropic gravity?
- Jerome Wang
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High School Is time an illusion?
- L Drago
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High School Can we measure absolute motion of Earth and Sun?
- zasvitim
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Undergrad Definition of tangent vector to a timelike geodesic
- TimWilliams87
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Undergrad Tensor field from a covariant derivative operator (affine connection)
- cianfa72
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