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Undergrad By what formula is this graph predicted? Cumulative Periastron Time Shift
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Undergrad Proper Distance Between Surfaces of Constant R in Curved Spacetime
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High School Flashlights and Guns inside an Event Horizon
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Undergrad Understand Michelson-Morley Experiment from Feynman Lectures
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High School Question concerning mass effect
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High School How Thin Can Speed Make Things? 2D Possibilities
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High School What Happens Inside the Event Horizon of a Black Hole?
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Undergrad Relativistic Explanation for the Unipolar Generator
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High School Relativistic Simulation of Charged Particles: How a Physicist Would Go About It
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Undergrad Is Symmetry on μ and α Valid for the Derivative of the Metric Tensor?
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High School Does time dilation work this way?
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Undergrad Definition and measurement of proper length
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Undergrad Relativistic rocket - where is the relativistic mass?
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Undergrad Stress Energy Tensor for Oscillator: Setup for Electron in E-Field
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High School Examining Time Dilation and the Effects of Velocity on Perception of Time
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Undergrad Why y=y' in the Lorentz transformation?
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High School Simultaneity: Shroedinger's Cat and Exploding Balloons
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Undergrad Kinetic Energy & Speed in Inertial Frames: Chris, Bob & Angelica
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Undergrad Frequency of GW Arm Length Change: Properties & Detailed Explanation
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Undergrad Help with Derivation of Linearized Einstein Field Eqns
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Graduate Help with Weinberg p. 72 -- time dt for a photon to travel a distance d⃗x
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High School Is the time dilation in GR equal to that in SR?
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Undergrad Special relativity timebomb on distant planet 'paradox'?
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Undergrad Differential Forms: Definition & Antisymmetric Tensor
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Undergrad How can gravitational waves be detected if spacetime itself warps?
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Undergrad Superluminal Messaging and Causality Paradox: Myth or Reality?
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Undergrad What is the Simpler Name for Conserved Property of Spacetime?
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High School Gravity and electromagnetic radiation
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Undergrad Trying to understand covariant tensor
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Undergrad Who is Moving Faster: Planet or Probe?
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Undergrad Formation of Bound Systems, Stars & Galaxies in General Relativity
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Graduate Physical Relevance of Singularity Theorems?
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High School Can Black Holes Really Allow Time Travel and Survival Beyond the Event Horizon?
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Undergrad Solving SR Invariance: Minkowski Metric, Poincare Transformation, Index Notation
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High School FTL Gravity Waves: Is Faster-Than-Light Travel Possible?
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High School Dropping a Black Hole from Tower of Piza
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Undergrad Does the energy in cc also gravitate?
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Graduate The information about the curvature on the rest
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High School In what direction do gravitational waves get emitted?
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Undergrad Deriving Schwartzschild Finding Mistake in Ricci Tensor
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Undergrad Can a Tensor be Represented by a 3-Dimensional Matrix?
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Undergrad Where do the missing minutes in a live feed from a spaceship to Mars go?
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High School Does Acceleration Affect Planck Lengths in General Relativity?
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High School Gravity and Inertia: Similar but not Equivalent
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Graduate Did Einstein Disbelieve in General Relativity Geometry?
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Graduate Capture by Gravitational Radiation in 2-Body System?
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Undergrad Index algebra questions / order of indices
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High School Age of Universe: How Gravity Affects Time
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Graduate Distance of two shells in Gullstrand-Painleve coordinates
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Graduate Hubble parameter vs Scale factor's derivative
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High School Can Time Travel Take Us Back to the Big Bang?
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High School Unanswered Questions About a Lone Object's Stationary State
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High School Why Can the Gamma Factor Exceed 2 in Relativity?
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Undergrad Does the Michelson-Morley Experiment Solely Confirm Constant Light Speed?
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High School How does the universe expand with the law of thermodynamic
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High School Is Anti-Gravity a Reality or Just a Concept?
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Undergrad Questions about binding energy
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High School Can Newton's G and the "Einstein Scalar" Be Related?
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High School How Does the Michelson-Morley Experiment Detect Differences in Light Speed?
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Graduate Relativistic generalization of Newton’s equation
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Undergrad Does Special Relativity Apply to a Moving Clock?
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Undergrad How does parallel transportation relates to Rieman Manifold?
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Undergrad Dimensionless Time: Rindler & Minkowski Spacetime
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Undergrad Faster Than Light Travel: Wormhole Questions
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Undergrad Time travel thought experiment
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High School Travel Faster than Light? Opposite Direction Objects
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High School Was H.G. Wells' Concept of Time as a Fourth Dimension Accurate?
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Graduate Analogy of counterterms of gauge in GR
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Undergrad Is Photon Mass Zero or Relativistic in Nature?
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Undergrad How would the sky look if ether drag hypothesis was true?
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Undergrad Traveling the Universe at the Speed of Light: Is it Possible?
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Graduate How Do Conservation Laws Apply to a 4 Current in General Relativity?
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High School Relative Time Effect on Orbital Comm: Satellite Freq & Audio/Video
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Graduate Is There a Mathematical Definition of Time?
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Undergrad Why isn't spacetime considered as true 4D?
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Undergrad Are many exercises in Schutz just too hard?
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Undergrad Free Fall vs Acceleration: Einstein's Theory Explained
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Undergrad If you traveled towards a planet at 0.9C
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High School Why gravitational force is attractive? (and why dark matter is repulsive?)
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High School Mutual time dilation seems to be self-contradictory?
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High School Velocity dependent equations and frames of reference
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Graduate Singularity After Black Hole Evaporates: What Happens?
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High School Can Spacetime Truly Have an Outside?
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Graduate Time Independent Form of Klein Gordon Eqn.: How to Reach (gδ3(x))
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High School Need an explanation for the chances in this graph
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High School Manipulating Gravity: Is It Possible?
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Graduate When a mass enters or leaves a wormhole mouth is momentum transferred
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High School What Einstein said on faster than light travel
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Graduate Rest, Mass, and Kinetic Energy
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Undergrad Can Hyperbolic Space be affecting our view of the universe?
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Undergrad Arrow of time and travel at the speed of light
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Undergrad Closing distances at rates greater than c
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Undergrad Is time rate getting faster with cosmic expansion?
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Undergrad Time dilation (something seemingly paradoxical)
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Graduate How Does Mach's Principle Connect Distant Stars to Local Motion?
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Undergrad Force on a Spherically-Uniform Radiator Moving Through Space
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Undergrad How Is Proper Acceleration Expressed in General Relativity?
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Undergrad Gravity Waves: Measure Spacetime Stretch with a Ruler
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Undergrad Which Is More Fundamental: Time or Distance?
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Graduate Gravitational Redshift in Newtonian Equivalence Principle?
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