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High School Derivative of the Lorentz factor
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High School Limitless Momentum of Black Holes
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Undergrad Doubt regarding derivation of Lorentz Transformations.
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Undergrad Restrictions of 1st Order Perturbation Theory
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Undergrad Learn Michelson Morley Exp: Best Books Explaining Light's C Speed
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Undergrad Kruskal–Szekeres coordinates for Kerr metric
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Graduate Pressure and Newtonian potential energy
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High School Einstein's Cosmological Constant: Push or Pull?
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Undergrad Relativity of Time for Two Observers
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Undergrad Diffuse Reflection: Calculating Momentum Transfer
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High School What the movie Interstellar got right and wrong?
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Undergrad Metric for Single Photon: What's Best?
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Undergrad Energy Radiated by Object Falling in Black Hole
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Undergrad Can someone fact check my speech about BH?
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High School Are Geometries that contain Closed Timelike Curves Possible?
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High School Thought Experiment from my daughter regarding black holes
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High School Can Causal Loops and Time Travel Coexist?
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High School Real-Life Demonstrations of Black Holes for Video
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Undergrad Does gravity impact the speed of light?
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High School Closed Time-Like Curves: Principles & Observations
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Graduate Kottler-Moller coordinates, metric "covers" a region
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Undergrad Can someone explain this phenomena?
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Undergrad SR Time Dilation in Rigid Structure Clocks
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Undergrad Why is Hawking Radiation Unequal for Matter & Antimatter?
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Undergrad Consequences of light moving in a medium
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High School Frame Dragging: Q&A for Time Travelers
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Graduate How are curvature and field strength exactly the same?
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High School Layman's Question about Special Relativity
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Undergrad Confusion regarding acceleration in SR
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High School Gravitational Redshift: Will Two Lasers Operate Differently?
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Undergrad Killing vectors in isotropic space-times
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Undergrad Uncovering Invariance in SR: Why is $0 = (cdt)^{2}-dx^{2}$ Invariant?
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Undergrad How Does General Relativity Explain Gravity's Conundrum?
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Undergrad Understanding the Relationship Between Energy and Momentum in Special Relativity
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Undergrad Solving for the Missing Factor: Jumping into a Non-Rotating Black Hole
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Undergrad How does gravitational time dilation work?
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High School Effects of a moving mirror on a ray of light
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Undergrad Can Light Transfer Momentum to Create Sound in Air?
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Insights Lessons From the Bizzaro Universe - Comments
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Undergrad Can the Christoffel connection be observed?
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Undergrad What time structure supports info moving backward in time?
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Undergrad What Is Frame Dragging and How Does It Affect Space?
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High School How to find the dual basis vector for the following
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Graduate How was the matrix in the attachment found
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Undergrad Gravitational DE(?) from Schwartzschild spacetime
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Undergrad Index placement on 4-potential
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Graduate Why is vector made different here
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Undergrad Is there a unit system with ##\hbar=G=c=\mu_0=1##?
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Undergrad Relativity and speed of light basics
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Graduate Radiation & Non-Radiation Terms in Equation B for Moving Charged Particle
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High School How Can We Detect Gravitational Waves from Black Holes?
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Graduate Hamiltonian Integral Transformation: Insight Needed
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Graduate Gravity Field Theory in Flat Space Time: Best References
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Graduate General relativity: time dilation and speed of light
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Undergrad Coordinate and proper time, null geodesic
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High School Transformation of velocity exceeding light speed
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High School Speed of Light & Virtual Particles: Is There a Connection?
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Undergrad Lie Derivative in Relativity: Examples & Uses
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Graduate Why doesn't an electron sitting on the Earth radiate?
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High School Why Are Numerical Examples Rare in Relativity and Quantum Mechanics?
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High School What is the Definition of Improper Time in Special Relativity?
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High School Is Absolute Movement Linked to Absolute Time in 3D Space?
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Undergrad Fizeau's Exp: TRANSFORMING VELOCITIES to Explain
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Undergrad Calculating Killing vectors of Schwarzschild metric
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Undergrad Relativistic Velocity Transformation: Diff. Operator Explained
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Undergrad Does a blueshift change the energy of a photon?
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Undergrad Possible Warp Drive Physics: The Alcubierre Drive
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Undergrad Relativistic addition question
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Graduate Solving Almheriri's Dilaton-Gravity Model in AdS##_2##
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Graduate Reference for Oppenheimer Snyder Collapse Paper
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Insights Rindler Motion in Special Relativity, Part 2: Rindler Coordinates - Comments
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Undergrad Nonlinear relation between coordinate time and proper time
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Graduate Solve GHY Boundary Term Problem for Calculations
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Undergrad Constructing the Tangent Space to the Sphere: A Simple Case Study in Relativity
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High School What Is Lorentz Symmetry? Understanding & Differences
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Undergrad Origin of Deformation Energy in Curved Spacetime?
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Undergrad Solving Boundary Conditions in 4D Spacetime Volume
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Undergrad Components of Riemann Tensor: 4 Indexes, 16x16 Matrix
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High School Is Spacetime a Discrete Lattice? - Prof. Sila Beane's Experiment
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High School Understanding Time in a Moving Frame: Observer's Experiment with Egg Timers
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Undergrad Earth Between 2 Suns: Time & Space Questions
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High School Does Relativistic Mass Affect the Way We Weigh Things?
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Undergrad Calculating the Ricci tensor on the surface of a 3D sphere
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Undergrad GR: Does Clock Hypothesis Apply?
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Undergrad Measuring Magnetic Field in Rotating Frame
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Undergrad Meter stick slides over a meter wide hole at a high speed
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Undergrad Benefits & Disadvantages of Palatini Action for General Relativity
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Undergrad Speed of light around a (massive) object in space ...(i.e.sun
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Undergrad Can Momentum Exist Without Net Velocity in Special Relativity?
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High School Distribution and direction of Unruh radiation
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Undergrad Conditions for Spherically Symmetric Black Hole Solution
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High School Understanding Proper Time vs. Layman's Time
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Undergrad Comparing Lie & Covariant Derivatives of Vector Fields
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Undergrad Transition from Normal Matter to Black Hole: Thought Experiment
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Undergrad Measuring Speed of Light: Reference Guide
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High School Is it Possible to Know Which Object is Moving? Special Theory of Relativity
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Undergrad Max Amplitude Gravitational Waves: 2?
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High School Experiments to Measure Speed of Light
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High School Why we don't have several theories
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High School Relative motion and proper time
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