Special and General Relativity Forum

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Undergrad Differential equation from derivative of time dilation

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High School Measuring the speed of light from moving source of light

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High School Speed of light circling around a black hole

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Undergrad Any database of results for the Michelson-Morley Experiment

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Undergrad What is the fastest time can go?

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Undergrad Gravitational time dilation - acceleration vs potential

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Undergrad Doppler Gravity: Does it Exist? Why or Why Not?

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Undergrad Is Time Travel Really Possible: Can We Move Backward in Time?

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Undergrad Einstein Proved Right 500M Light Years Away

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Undergrad Deriving Einstein Equations: Questions on Linearity & Symmetry

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Undergrad Force Experienced on a Curved Geodesic Path

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Undergrad Understand Relativity w/o Math: A Different Framework

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Undergrad Vectors & Frames Qs: Galilean & Lorentz Transforms

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Undergrad Real life example of the energy contained at E=γmc^2

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Undergrad How does the stress-energy tensor act on gravity?

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Undergrad Feedback Requested: Special Relativity Simplified by Phil

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High School Do photons interact with spacetime?

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High School What is the fabric of spacetime?

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High School Uncovering the Mysteries of Time: Understanding its Stretch and Rhythm

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Undergrad C Speed, Gravitational Time Dilation & 4-Velocity

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Undergrad Indices Up & Down: Understanding Dual Vectors

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High School Which Particle is Moving? Physics Q&A

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Undergrad Time Dilation: Does Gravitational Field Strength Matter?

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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

  • Mark Scalabrin
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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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