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Undergrad Einstein Field Equations: PDEs or ODEs? - Thomas
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High School Relativity of Simultaneity: Proving Lightning Strikes A & B Same Time?
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Undergrad Object Moving Faster Than Light?
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High School Transmitting information using gravitational waves
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Undergrad Reference Frame Usage in General Relativity
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Undergrad Carol Rovelli on the Notion of "Now" - Is He Right or Wrong?
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High School Is it that hard to do Relativity in accelerating frames?
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High School Can Phonon Excitations in BECs Revolutionize Gravitational Wave Detection?
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Undergrad The Electric field of a moving charge according to Purcell
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Graduate How do magnetic fields curve spacetime?
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Graduate Signs in the definition of anti de Sitter spacetimes
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Graduate Is spacetime orientation a convention?
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Undergrad Is the Notation for Coordinate Transformation in Relativity Problematic?
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Undergrad Can Warping Spacetime Create a "Warp Bubble" in GR?
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High School Spin & Frame of Reference: Detecting Motion in Space
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Undergrad Gravitational time dilation near Earth
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Undergrad Relativistic velocity scenario
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High School Okun argument against relativistic mass - pedagogy
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Undergrad Prediction of GR for the gravitational pull
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Undergrad Energy-Momentum Tensor: Validity in Relativity?
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High School Gravity of hollow sphere vs. solid sphere of same mass
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High School Can sound distort the fabric of space?
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High School Metric tensor of a perfect fluid in its rest frame
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Undergrad Multivariable Calculus Project: Spacetime/Black Holes
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Undergrad Rindler coordinates in Minkowski spacetime
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High School Is a "meter" observer dependent?
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High School Confused About the Length of Time Between Ticks in Time Dilation
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Graduate ADM mass of a spacetime and mass of the associated matter
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Undergrad Math of Relativity: Topology Needed?
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High School Length Contraction & Time Dilation: Relative Velocity Impact?
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Graduate Defining the surface gravity of a black hole
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High School Negative Mass: Does it Impact Spacetime & Gravity?
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High School Lorentz Transformation direction of motion
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Undergrad What is the velocity of light in uniformly rotating frame?
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High School Uniform motion and time dilation - real or perspective based
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High School Are All Four GW Detectors Currently Operational for Simultaneous Observing?
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High School Does Time Dilation Occur in a Perfectly Circular Orbit at Near-Light Speed?
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Undergrad Is Einstein's elevator different for gravity?
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High School The Speed of Light and Time: A Constant Debate
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High School What do I see while falling into a black hole?
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Undergrad Relativistic Momentum: Deriving an Expression
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Undergrad Green's theorem in tensor (GR) notation
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Undergrad Speed of Light Logic: Flaw Explained
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Undergrad Question about GPS clock synchronization
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Undergrad Is there a physical explanation for the relationship between light and space?
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Undergrad Solving Confusion About Parallelograms in Curved Spacetime
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Undergrad Lorentz transformation in 2 dimensions
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High School Which frame of reference is the correct one?
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Graduate Intro to String Theory: Lightcone Gauge & Oscillators
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Undergrad Equations for observed distance/velocity in SR
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High School Exercise for Students: Incorrect Special Relativity Analysis
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High School How Does Speed Influence Time and Particle Decay in Einstein's Theory?
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High School Special Relativity Q: Choosing Light as Ref
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Undergrad Number of independent components of the Riemann tensor
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Undergrad Index Notation for Lorentz Transformation
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High School The perfect relativistic quantum particles simulation
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High School Relativistic simultaneity and symmetry problem
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High School If anyone here doesn't yet get the twin "paradox". .
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Undergrad Gravitational time dilation calculation near a Black Hole
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Undergrad What is the most correct way to write a vector in GR?
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Graduate Distance from Black Hole to experience Time Dilation
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