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High School Relativity & Physics Concepts: A Book Explained Simply
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Insights Orbital Precession in the Schwarzschild and Kerr Metrics - Comments
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High School Visualizing Spacetime: 3 Dimensions Not Enough?
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Undergrad Galilean transformation paradox help
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Undergrad Age Slower or Faster in Center of Earth? Time Dilation Explored
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Undergrad Reconsidering Gravity: The Illusion of a Fourth Force Revealed
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Undergrad Can an object accelerate at a constant pace forever?
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Undergrad How Does Length Contraction Affect Train Wheel Rotation at Near Light Speeds?
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High School How Would Time Run Without Movement? G.R. & S.R. Explained
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High School Pronouncing Subscripts in General Relativity
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High School Black Hole At The Center Of The Earth
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Undergrad Does Space-Time Exist Without Energy?
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High School Deriving P=γ(u)mu: A Relativistic Momentum Exercise
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High School Help Understanding special relativity
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Undergrad Time Dilation Observation: What Does Earth Observe?
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Undergrad Clarifying SR Notation for Advanced Mechanics Course
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High School In what year was wormhole collapse discovered?
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Undergrad What is the hierarchy of time: Δt, Δs, and Δτ?
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High School Free Will & Relativity: A Thought Experiment
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High School Riddle of the Bomb in Train: Solve the Mystery!
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High School Is the Speed of Light Governed by an Ether?
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Graduate Noether's Theorem: Julien's Calculation Mistake?
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Graduate Local Existence & Uniqueness of Vacuum EFE Solutions
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Graduate Solve Gravitational Interferometer & Geodesics
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High School How do special relativity equations apply to spacelike separated events?
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Undergrad Solving the Gravitational Field Equations
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Undergrad Should Einstein's Field Equations be modified for cosmology?
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Undergrad Is the Energy Stress Tensor of Dust Always Zero Inside a Moving Cloud?
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Graduate Numerical integration of motion
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High School Cox & Forshaw: "Why E=mc^2" - A Newbie's Question
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Undergrad About the Equivalence Principle
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Undergrad Quasars: What Metric Should You Use?
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Undergrad Relativistic doppler shifted blackbody color?
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High School Problem with the atomic clock and time dilation
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Undergrad Vector to scalar potential, transformation of fields
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Graduate "Simple" 4D Kerr Geodesics simulator, source code and docs
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Undergrad Christoffel symbols of Schwarzschild metric with Lagrangian
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High School What Is the Physical Meaning of Curvature in General Relativity?
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Undergrad At Speed of Light: Standing Still?
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Graduate Einstein's Real Motivation Behind GR
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High School Orbital Mechanics: GR vs Newton's Laws
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Undergrad How to bridge the gap between these approaches to SR?
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Graduate How can we really state that mass (or energy ) is conserved?
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High School Can Cosmological Constant contract (negative)?
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Graduate Learning Advanced Math Notation for Self-Studying Physics
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Undergrad Volume vs Circumference of Massive Body
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Graduate Exploring Huygens' Principle: Odd # Spatial Dimensions & Beyond
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Undergrad How Does Gravity Propagate Through Different Mediums and Energy Fields?
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Undergrad Can Snell's Law Be Derived by Passing to a Moving Frame?
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Undergrad What is the predicted location of gravity in orbiting objects?
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Undergrad Does the momentum of a photon change in a medium with varying speeds of light?
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Undergrad Deriving Φ of Light Around a Massive Body: Exploring Einstein's Equation
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Undergrad General Relativity vs Newtonian Weak Field: G Force?
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High School Solving Weird Time Dilation Question w/ Spaceships
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Graduate A Quantum Theory of Spacetime, the Physical Reality of Cross
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Undergrad Beyond the Speed of Light: Objects Beyond the Observable Universe
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Undergrad Moving Schwarzschild Black Hole
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Undergrad Can Heat Differential Generate Thrust?
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Graduate Black Hole information paradox and evolution in time
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Undergrad Geodesic Equation: Lagrange Approximation Solution for Schwarzschild Metric
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High School Toy GW Detector Model: "Hook Law Force
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High School How come GR doesn't describe other forces with curvature?
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High School Space-Time: Definition & Meaning
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Undergrad Solve SR 'Paradox': Find Flaw in Argument
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Insights Relativity on Rotated Graph Paper - Comments
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Undergrad Two black holes colliding - visual
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High School What is the nature of spacetime?
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High School How Does Time Dilation Influence Perceived Velocity?
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High School Euler-Lagrange equation for calculating geodesics
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Undergrad Gravitational Waves: Propagation or Present?
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Undergrad Lorentz Transformations in the context of tensor analysis
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Undergrad Can the Size of the Event Horizon change faster than c?
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High School Temperature of an accelerating system
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Undergrad Why are scalar fields Lorentz invariant?
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High School Can Energy Really Transform into Matter at CERN?
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Undergrad Speed > C: Does Einstein's Theory Allow It?
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High School Near C Speed Rockets: Time Dilation & The Twin Paradox
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High School Do Gravitational Slingshots cause G-forces
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Undergrad Ricci tensor for Schwarzschild metric
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Undergrad Does a black hole have a maximum density?
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Undergrad Gravitational wave like a harmonic oscillator?
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High School Falling into a black hole (seen from outside)
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Undergrad Active vs Passive Lorentz transformation
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High School Moon time versus Earth time....
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Undergrad How to show that Electrodynamics is conformally invariant?
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Undergrad Gravity of a Baseball-Sized Universe: Reach to Infinity?
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High School What Happens When a Ball Is Thrown in a Moving Car?
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Undergrad Lorentz derivation of length contraction in electrodynamics
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Undergrad Force Between Moving Charge Particles: Does Speed Matter?
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High School Do EFEs Physically Describe Something?
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High School Twin Paradox: A and B at Different Speeds
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Undergrad A problem about momentum conservation.
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Undergrad Derivation of E.M. Stress Energy Tensor
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Graduate Solution to the wave equation in Rindler coordinates
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Graduate Landau Lifshitz Gravitational field equation
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Undergrad Definition of stress-energy tensor
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Undergrad What Is Four-Force in Special Relativity?
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Graduate Metric for Circular Orbit of Two Bodies
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Undergrad What is a free vector and how does it relate to vectors in spacetime?
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Undergrad How Does Temperature Affect Time Dilation in Clocks?
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