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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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Undergrad No Universal Chronological Order of Events? Explained
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Graduate Gravitational binding energy and the TOV limit
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Undergrad What is the gamma factor in a particle's rest frame?
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High School What is the Bridge Fall Paradox and its implications for material stress?
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High School Is Euclid's 5th Postulate Correct? - A Teacher's Perspective
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High School What is the theory of relativity?
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High School Pulsar Clock: The Mystery of Slowing Rotation in a Spaceship
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High School Light cone and Cherenkov radiation
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Undergrad Issues with the variation of Christoffel symbols
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Undergrad Examples of invariant quantities
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Undergrad Universe Inside Black Hole: Principles Different?
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Graduate Physical Basis of Lovelock's Theorem: GR & Equivalence Principle
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Undergrad Is there any way to derive the time dilation formula?
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Undergrad Riemann curvature tensor derivation
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Graduate Explaining the Geocentric Celestial Reference System
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Undergrad Deriving Covariant Form of $E_{1}E_{2}|\vec{v}|$
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Undergrad Why doesn't a photon's mass increase to infinity?
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Undergrad How do non-inertial frames affect special relativity?
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Undergrad Geometric Meaning of Complex Null Vector in Newman-Penrose Formalism
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Graduate Hawking radiation and rotating Black holes
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Graduate Space Travel & Relativity: Is it Possible?
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High School Acceleration: Effects on Matter & Observers
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High School Einstein's Gravity Model: Explaining Its Creation
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High School Is Mass Truly Relative or Absolute?
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High School FTL train + FTL communication thought experiment
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High School Constancy of the speed of light
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Graduate Gravitational Waves: Expansion of Spacetime?
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Graduate Compute Normal Forces on Box Sides via Stress-Energy Tensor
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Undergrad Can Newton's Theory Apply in a Small Volume?
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High School Tensors & Lorentz Transform: Is There a Connection?
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Undergrad A moving rod; two Lorentz boosts compared with one
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Undergrad Charged Particles Radiating in "Free Fall" into Black Holes
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Undergrad Rotating Black Hole w/ Ring: Spacetime Effects
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Graduate When does the Minkowski metric get non-zero off-diagonals?
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Undergrad The metrics to describe a wormhole
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Undergrad Spacetime is homogeneous and isotropic
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Undergrad The relativistic de Broglie equation
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Undergrad Why does bent space set objects in motion?
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High School Theoretical Question On The Twins Paradox and Heart Rate
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Undergrad Expressing Locality in Vector Space for GR
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