Special and General Relativity Forum

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Undergrad At Speed of Light: Standing Still?

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Graduate Einstein's Real Motivation Behind GR

  • CASPIDE
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High School Orbital Mechanics: GR vs Newton's Laws

  • Peter Riedt
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Undergrad How to bridge the gap between these approaches to SR?

  • leo.
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Graduate How can we really state that mass (or energy ) is conserved?

  • Ahan Sha
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High School Can Cosmological Constant contract (negative)?

  • cube137
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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?

  • Gerinski
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Undergrad Can Snell's Law Be Derived by Passing to a Moving Frame?

  • jk22
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Undergrad What is the predicted location of gravity in orbiting objects?

  • Xilor
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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

  • Clive Redwood
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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

  • Jackie CH Liu
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Undergrad Beyond the Speed of Light: Objects Beyond the Observable Universe

  • Sachabloke
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Undergrad Moving Schwarzschild Black Hole

  • Andrew Kim
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Undergrad Can Heat Differential Generate Thrust?

  • cosmonium
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Graduate Black Hole information paradox and evolution in time

  • gerald V
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Undergrad Geodesic Equation: Lagrange Approximation Solution for Schwarzschild Metric

  • AleksanderPhy
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High School Toy GW Detector Model: "Hook Law Force

  • Paul Colby
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High School How come GR doesn't describe other forces with curvature?

  • nashed
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High School Space-Time: Definition & Meaning

  • Aditya Vishwak
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Undergrad Solve SR 'Paradox': Find Flaw in Argument

  • Xilor
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Insights Relativity on Rotated Graph Paper - Comments

  • robphy
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Undergrad Two black holes colliding - visual

  • mgkii
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High School What is the nature of spacetime?

  • tim9000
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High School How Does Time Dilation Influence Perceived Velocity?

  • AleksanderPhy
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High School Euler-Lagrange equation for calculating geodesics

  • AleksanderPhy
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Undergrad Gravitational Waves: Propagation or Present?

  • epovo
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Undergrad Lorentz Transformations in the context of tensor analysis

  • Diego Berdeja
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Undergrad Can the Size of the Event Horizon change faster than c?

  • Algren
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High School Temperature of an accelerating system

  • alan_longor
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Undergrad Why are scalar fields Lorentz invariant?

  • voila
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High School Can Energy Really Transform into Matter at CERN?

  • BlueQuark
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Undergrad Speed > C: Does Einstein's Theory Allow It?

  • kent davidge
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High School Near C Speed Rockets: Time Dilation & The Twin Paradox

  • kolleamm
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High School Do Gravitational Slingshots cause G-forces

  • Momentum117
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Undergrad Ricci tensor for Schwarzschild metric

  • AleksanderPhy
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Undergrad Does a black hole have a maximum density?

  • GregoryC
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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)

  • gerald V
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Undergrad Active vs Passive Lorentz transformation

  • voila
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High School Moon time versus Earth time....

  • hsdrop
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Undergrad How to show that Electrodynamics is conformally invariant?

  • physicality
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Undergrad Gravity of a Baseball-Sized Universe: Reach to Infinity?

  • Pjpic
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High School What Happens When a Ball Is Thrown in a Moving Car?

  • sunney
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Undergrad Lorentz derivation of length contraction in electrodynamics

  • Babbeus
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Undergrad Force Between Moving Charge Particles: Does Speed Matter?

  • Chris Frisella
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High School Do EFEs Physically Describe Something?

  • Megaton
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High School Twin Paradox: A and B at Different Speeds

  • sqljunkey
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Undergrad A problem about momentum conservation.

  • Enryque
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Undergrad Derivation of E.M. Stress Energy Tensor

  • Andrew Kim
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Graduate Solution to the wave equation in Rindler coordinates

  • Wise Owl
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Graduate Landau Lifshitz Gravitational field equation

  • Mr-R
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Undergrad Definition of stress-energy tensor

  • Silviu
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Undergrad What Is Four-Force in Special Relativity?

  • greypilgrim
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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?

  • Stella.Physics
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Undergrad How Does Temperature Affect Time Dilation in Clocks?

  • greypilgrim
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Undergrad Effect of GW on Steel Bars: What's the Impact?

  • Paul Colby
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Graduate LLT, GCT and gauge transformations

  • Ravi Mohan
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High School Light Momentum Confusion: Proving with Math/Eqns

  • Irfan Nafi
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High School Velocity of light in acceleration frame.

  • fxdung
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High School Relativity Problem: Questions on Time, Movement & Reality

  • alan_longor
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Undergrad Subbing Planck length into length contraction equation?

  • Zahidur
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Undergrad How Do Tensor and Vector Notations Differ in Physics?

  • Silviu
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High School Schwarzschild Metric Derivation?

  • mysearch
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High School Gravitational Waves: What Happens In Between?

  • Piranha Butch
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Undergrad Solving Geodesic Equations with Killing Vectors: Is There a General Solution?

  • AleksanderPhy
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Undergrad Observing Hawking Radiation from Inside a Black Hole

  • nomadreid
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Insights Precession in Special and General Relativity - Comments

  • Bill_K_Insights
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Undergrad Thought Exp: Light Trapped in Gravity Well of Black Hole

  • ccrook
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Undergrad GR & Mercury Precession: Explaining the Diff.

  • nikko lyng
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High School General Questions about Special Relativity

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Undergrad Comparing Black Holes & Contracting Universes

  • Gerinski
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Graduate Exploring Spacetime Propagation in Higher-Dimensional Relativity

  • bluecap
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Graduate Polar coordinate neighbourhoods in manifolds

  • Bas73
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High School Can Light Escape the Gravitational Pull of a Black Hole?

  • DiracPool
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Insights Tetrad Fields and Spacetime - Comments

  • Bill_K_Insights
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Undergrad Sticky beads and a simple wave

  • Ibix
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Undergrad Relative Velocity Time Dilation: Experiments Disproving Theory?

  • Doc_Z
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High School Mass & Stress-Energy Tensor: Why Not Explicitly?

  • e2m2a
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Undergrad 'If a photon were trapped between two perfect mirrors....'

  • peterfreed
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High School Can a massive object have a velocity of c and zero mass relative to light?

  • flexible_time
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Undergrad Is Space Always Curved, and What Does It Mean for Mass and Time?

  • Kevin McHugh
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Undergrad Validating a ds^2 Metric in General Relativity

  • NotASmurf
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High School What Is the Gravitational Memory Effect?

  • tionis
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Undergrad Schwarzschild Radius of All Matter & Energy in Known Universe

  • Ontophobe
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Undergrad How Does Length Contraction Influence Electromagnetic Forces?

  • djsourabh
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Undergrad Why is energy not Lorentz invariant?

  • Frank Castle
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Undergrad At what point does classical EM become relativistic EM?

  • Electric to be
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Undergrad Lorentz Transform: Justifying Use in Acceleration

  • Glenda
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High School Why do we know space-time is locally flat?

  • fxdung
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High School Help With the Twin Paradox: Why Does Time Dilation Apply?

  • Bennie Grezlik
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Graduate Deriving Amplification of Images in Schwartzschild Metric

  • directbydirecct
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Graduate Linearized metric for GW emitting orbiting bodies

  • pervect
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Graduate Momentum Constraint in GR: ADM Formalism

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