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Undergrad Special Relativity's effect on density
- MiLara
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High School What Are Ordinary and Proper Velocities in Special Relativity?
- mark57
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Undergrad Bauer's Paradox in General Theory of Relativity?
- nomadreid
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High School Can Different Wavelengths Affect the Gravity Between Light Beams?
- calinvass
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High School Synchronized Clocks: Will They Remain in Sync Forever?
- Rishi Tharun
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Undergrad Ivanenko, Logunov and even Zelmanov
- Carlos L. Janer
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High School Centripetal Acceleration of Photons?
- Comeback City
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Undergrad How can light bend through a prism if it has no mass?
- richard lareva
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Undergrad What Causes High Energy Radiation Emissions from Black Holes?
- richard lareva
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Undergrad D'Alembert equation and Galilean transformation
- Francescob
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Undergrad Deriving the Schwarzschild radius from escape velocity
- SD das
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High School A supplementary length contraction question
- Glenn G
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Undergrad GR change in proximal tendancy
- name123
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High School Time dilation and length contraction question
- Glenn G
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Undergrad Does the order of the metric and tensor matter when raising or lowering indices?
- binbagsss
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High School Would a near-c bullet with high relativistic mass destroy a star?
- Chris Miller
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Undergrad Do virtual particles impact a moving rocket differently at different speeds?
- mdl
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Undergrad Understanding Relativistic Ptcl Lagrangian: S1 vs. S2
- michael879
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Undergrad Absolute Energy in General Relativity?
- jcap
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Undergrad Accelerate Charged Particle: Does Light Require Force?
- MackBlanch
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Graduate Event horizon vicinity in isotropic coordinates
- Jonathan Scott
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Graduate Literature on Tolman solution and f(R) corrections
- inertiagrav
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Undergrad Black Hole Creation at Near Light Speed? - Prof. Andrea Ghez
- jobyts
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Undergrad Electromagnetic Force in Special Relativity
- L0r3n20
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High School Stationary frames of reference
- name123
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Undergrad Resolution to the Tachyonic Antitelephone paradox
- industry7
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High School How Do You Derive the Full Energy Momentum Relation Using Lorentz Factor?
- Glenn G
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Undergrad Gradient of a time-dependent function
- Sturk200
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Graduate Light from the singularity of a charged black hole
- Elnur Hajiyev
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High School Laser Pointer at Speed of Light: Does It Point Ahead?
- Joe Butler
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High School Understanding a Special-Relativity Frame and Comoving Center-of-Mass
- mark57
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High School The Singularity and Hawking radiation
- DreamLord101
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Graduate Assumptions behind Maxwell's equations for constant speed
- giulio_hep
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High School Can length contraction make a neutron star appear to be a black hole in some frames?
- a1call
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Graduate Why would FTL violate causality in special relativity?
- SciFiWriterGuy
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Undergrad Do physicists and mathematicians prefer different spacetime metric signatures?
- LarryS
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Undergrad Spacelike hyperbolae -- accelerated reference frames
- smodak
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Undergrad When do stationary observers receive signals from a relativistic spaceship?
- radres
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High School Why Special Relativity have overcome Ether Theory?
- Bartolomeo
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Undergrad Does length contraction stop at the Planck scale?
- Flatland
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High School What is mass attached to inside a black hole?
- Brunolem33
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Undergrad Deriving Magnetic Force w/ Approximated Gamma-Factor at UVA
- greypilgrim
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Undergrad Accelerating Internal OAM Photon Wavefronts Under Gravity
- calinvass
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High School When did Einstein develop his postulates for special relativity?
- Glenn G
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Undergrad Galilean Vs. Lorentz Transformations
- rmiller70015
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High School Gravity, time and interplanetary communication
- Brunolem33
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High School Blackhole breaking the speed limit of light?
- youshouldtry11
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Undergrad Relativity of Simultaneity and frames
- Conservation
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High School Time dilation problem question
- IvicaPhysics
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Undergrad Question on §3 of Einstein's 1905 paper
- Brett Oertel
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Undergrad Is Causality Relative in Black Holes?
- FallenApple
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Undergrad Strange Spacetime behavior inside Event Horizon
- FallenApple
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Undergrad Do laws of physics apply below the event horizon?
- ThomasLLS
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Undergrad Which vector undergoes parallel transport in a Foucault pendulum?
- Joker93
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High School Relative speed between Galaxies
- Razola
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Undergrad Detecting Gravitational Waves: Is My Understanding Wrong?
- wvphysicist
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Graduate How was the value of the spacetime curvature obtained?
- arupel
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High School Traveling to nearest star at nearly the speed of light
- lifeonmercury
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Undergrad Why doesn't the Earth's radius change while the surface accelerates?
- FallenApple
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Undergrad Two twins moving towards each other in a circular orbit
- Battlemage!
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Graduate Physical meaning of open set on manifold
- AlephClo
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Undergrad Is it possible to distort a black hole's event horizon
- dratone
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Undergrad Relativity's "time dilation" or clock accuracy alteration
- Crowxe
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Undergrad Types of time in relativity: proper, coordinate and conformal
- windy miller
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High School Can Understanding Spacetime Lead to Time Travel?
- Dheer Parikh
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Undergrad Christoffel Symbol vs. Vector Potential
- quickAndLucky
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Undergrad What does it take to spaghettify?
- Andreas C
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Undergrad Is the Age of Our Universe Affected by the Speed of Time at the Big Bang?
- Jacob Gawel
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High School Curved line shortest distance between two points?
- ChrisisC
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Undergrad Why not find mass increase in a simple way?
- alba
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Undergrad Deriving equation 3.9 from 3.6 in relativistic momentum
- albertrichardf
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Undergrad Solving Length Contraction Paradox
- Jonsson
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Undergrad Null geodesics in Schwarzschild spacetime
- Ibix
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Insights The Schwarzschild geometry: part 4
- PeterDonis
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High School Gravitational lensing thought experiment
- stoomart
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High School If the Sun disappeared, would the Earth continue to orbit?
- Ka Driver
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High School Can you reverse Einstein's famous E=mc^2 equation?
- gabi123
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Graduate Einstein's Field Equations: "Smoke Ring" Solution?
- cuallito
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High School What happens when a large black hole swallows a smaller one?
- James Minwell
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Undergrad Einstein's Equivalence Principle.
- FallenApple
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Undergrad What is the line element of the Misner solution?
- space-time
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Undergrad Relativity of simultaneity -- an example in D.Morin's book
- Oz123
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Undergrad Velocity Addition Example: Morin's Confusing Use of Equation
- Oz123
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Undergrad Gravitational Redshift: Derivation from Static Metric
- redtree
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High School Why Need Covarient Form of Electrodynamics?
- physicist 12345
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High School Time dilation and thermodynamics
- Thebugger
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Graduate Reference for coordinate view of equations of motion
- Jonathan Scott
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High School Bending of light in a gravitational field
- Frank Castle
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Undergrad Is a 2-body elliptical orbit stable in GR?
- Buzz Bloom
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Graduate Train thought experiment confusion
- jebii
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Graduate How is the invariant speed of light enocded in SL(2,C)?
- jakob1111
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Graduate Interpretation of Derivative of Metric = 0 in GR - Learning from Wald
- LarryL
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High School Maxwell's equations and gravitation
- naima
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Graduate Contraction between Levi-Civita symbol and Riemann tensor
- mhob
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High School How would the solar system appear if you approached at near c?
- Chris Miller
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High School If time is a dimension, what would be the dimension of a photograph?
- sonutabitha
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Undergrad Collision in special relativity
- exponent137
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Undergrad Why do the Einstein train scenarios give different simultaneity results?
- Dopplershift
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Undergrad Two metric tensors describing same geometry
- arpon
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Undergrad Deriving distances from reference frames
- JohnnyGui
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