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Undergrad Why do particles move along longest proper time trajectories

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Graduate Complex components of stress-energy tensor

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Undergrad Electrical Current Repelling Magnets Due to Relativity

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Undergrad Clock hypothesis, gravity time dilation and Equivalence Principle

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High School Visual Effects of Light Travel: Analyzing "Journey to Edge of Universe

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High School Synchronize Clocks in Relative Motion: How & Why

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Undergrad Nearly Lorentz Coordinate Systems: Is h a Tensor?

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Undergrad Finding Covariant and Contravariant components of Cylin Coor

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Graduate Uncovering the Truth Behind LIGO's Gravity Wave Detection: A Critical Analysis

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High School Gravity and how does the surface get it ?

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Graduate Mystery of Einstein's Relativity Solved with Classical Physics

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Undergrad Minkowski metric beyond the event horizon

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Undergrad Incompleteness of geodesics as ##t \longrightarrow 0##

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Undergrad Going from Galilei to Minkowski

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High School Do Objects in Motion Create Gravitational Waves?

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Undergrad Calculate Time at Infinity for GR Observer: A Photon's Journey

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High School 2 clocks -- Using orthogonal light path detectors in a space ship

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Undergrad Geodesic Deviation in Static Spacetime: Flat Geometry

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Undergrad How is a vector a directional derivative?

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Undergrad Answer: Understanding the Effect of Gravity on Falling Objects

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Undergrad Singularities in General Relativity

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Undergrad Explore Homogeneity of Space: Effects on Relativity Theory

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Undergrad Manipulating Christoffel Symbols: Questions & Answers

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High School Is anyone looking for this: reaching speed of light

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Undergrad Determining Mass & Info of Merging Neutron Stars from LIGO Signal

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Undergrad Relativistic field of moving charge. Why is it symmetric?

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Undergrad Can't understand this argument for Lorentz transformation y'=y

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High School What (if anything) limits the speed of something falling into a black hole?

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High School Relativistic Mass of Sub-Atomic Particles: What Does it Mean?

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Undergrad Maxwell's Equations, Hodge Operators & Tensor Analysis

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Undergrad Einstein Field Eqs: Stress Energy Tensor Explained

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High School Can General Relativity and Quantum Field Theory Be Reconciled?

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Undergrad Finding distance in polar coordinates with metric tensor

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Undergrad Speed of gravity vs. speed of light

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Undergrad Relativistic Mass Calculation with 4th Dimensional Vector

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Undergrad Contradiction between two fundamentals

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Undergrad Torsion & Non-Closed Rectangle in Feynman & Penrose

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Undergrad Spinning disk, length contraction, & equivalence principle

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Undergrad Theorem Proved: Universal Speed C in SR?

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Graduate Can Weyl Tensor Look Like Negative Mass?

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High School Speed of light and modern physics

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Undergrad How do I apply weak field approximation to the Einstein field equation?

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Undergrad Why must the spacetime we inhabit be a geodesically complete manifold?

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High School According to General Relativity, would the Earth be 'flat'?

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Undergrad GR in Newtonian Limit: Understanding Weak Fields & Inequalities

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High School Is Light Traveling Through Time?

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High School Time Dilation: Moving Rocket 0.5c vs Accelerating Rocket 0.5c

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Undergrad Where Did LIGO Find Merging Black Holes?

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Undergrad Gravitational Wave Modeling: A Thought Experiment

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Undergrad Understanding the Proof of Delta Variation for Determinant of Metric

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Undergrad Einstein Hilbert action

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High School Volumes and Hyper Volumes Related Special Relativity

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Undergrad Gradient in the rate of time vs acceleration

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Graduate Taylor Expansion of Metric Tensor: Troubles & Logic

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Undergrad How do you calculate the time component of a 4-Vector

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High School Gravitational waves and "warp drive"

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Undergrad EM Force vs. Gravity: Modeling Spatio-Temporal Curvature

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High School How is light influenced really close to the event horizon?

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Graduate Calculating Ricci tensor in AdS space

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High School Is Einstein's explanation of gravity just a geometrical replacement?

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High School Transforming Relativistic Kinetic Energy: A Concise Mathematical Trick

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Undergrad Schwarzschild equation of motion: initial conditions

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High School Faraday's disk and "absolute" magnetic fields

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High School Einstein Proven Right by 2017 Eclipse? Investigation

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Undergrad Shape of Vacuum Space: Constant Spatial Volume with Time

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Undergrad LIGO and light speed constancy

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High School Do Gravitational Waves Always Travel at the Speed of Light?

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Graduate Does the inverse square law hold indefinitely for gravity?

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Undergrad Are Local Lorentz Transformations Possible with Varying ##\vec{x}##?

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Undergrad Are Electric and Gravitational Fields Different for Moving Objects?

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Undergrad Speed of light on a moving platform

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High School Relative Rotation: Physics Approach for Newton's Bucket in Empty Universe

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Undergrad Stress Energy Tensor: How Does It Implicate Flow of Energy?

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High School Postulates of General Relativity

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Undergrad Can two gravitational waves orbit each other?

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Undergrad Positive Charge Magnetic Fields: Real World Examples

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Graduate Black Hole Merger: Analytical or Numerical Solutions?

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Undergrad Velocity Addition Formula: u_y > c?

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Undergrad Unexpected result on Lorentz transformation

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Undergrad Understanding Stress Energy Tensor of Fluids

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Undergrad Index Gymnastics: Matrix Representations & Rank-2 Tensor Components

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Undergrad Does Feynman's Work on Gravitons Clarify Quantum Gravity?

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Graduate Derive the Bianchi identities from a variational principle?

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High School What happens when you solve for c?

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High School Concept of the stability of the speed of light

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High School Can Relativity Theories Actually Permit Faster-Than-Light Travel?

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Undergrad Pressure term in the energy stress tensor

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High School Newb question about relativistic mass

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Undergrad How does Einstein define simultaneity in his 1905 paper?

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Undergrad Comparing Vacuum Solutions to Topologies of Einstein Space

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Graduate How Does Physics Behave in 2+2 Dimensional Spacetimes?

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Undergrad Is Gravity Invariant During Motion?

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High School Electric+Magnetic Force Between a & b Charges: Inertial Frames

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Undergrad Twin paradox in SR and its applicability to radioactive decay

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High School Center of momentum and mass energy equivalence

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Undergrad Proper time to reach the singularity - rocket acceleration

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Undergrad How does this not get me traveling to another star FTL?

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High School Understanding Mass and Density in Relativity Theory: A Critical Analysis

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High School Could this FTL idea with a fast moving large mass be possibl

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Undergrad Photon states should not evolve?

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