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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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Undergrad Effect of GW on Steel Bars: What's the Impact?
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Graduate LLT, GCT and gauge transformations
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High School Light Momentum Confusion: Proving with Math/Eqns
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High School Velocity of light in acceleration frame.
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High School Relativity Problem: Questions on Time, Movement & Reality
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Undergrad Subbing Planck length into length contraction equation?
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Undergrad How Do Tensor and Vector Notations Differ in Physics?
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High School Schwarzschild Metric Derivation?
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High School Gravitational Waves: What Happens In Between?
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Undergrad Solving Geodesic Equations with Killing Vectors: Is There a General Solution?
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Undergrad Observing Hawking Radiation from Inside a Black Hole
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Insights Precession in Special and General Relativity - Comments
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Undergrad Thought Exp: Light Trapped in Gravity Well of Black Hole
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Undergrad GR & Mercury Precession: Explaining the Diff.
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High School General Questions about Special Relativity
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Undergrad Comparing Black Holes & Contracting Universes
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Graduate Exploring Spacetime Propagation in Higher-Dimensional Relativity
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Graduate Polar coordinate neighbourhoods in manifolds
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High School Can Light Escape the Gravitational Pull of a Black Hole?
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Insights Tetrad Fields and Spacetime - Comments
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Undergrad Sticky beads and a simple wave
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Undergrad Relative Velocity Time Dilation: Experiments Disproving Theory?
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High School Mass & Stress-Energy Tensor: Why Not Explicitly?
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Undergrad 'If a photon were trapped between two perfect mirrors....'
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High School Can a massive object have a velocity of c and zero mass relative to light?
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Undergrad Is Space Always Curved, and What Does It Mean for Mass and Time?
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Undergrad Validating a ds^2 Metric in General Relativity
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High School What Is the Gravitational Memory Effect?
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Undergrad Schwarzschild Radius of All Matter & Energy in Known Universe
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Undergrad How Does Length Contraction Influence Electromagnetic Forces?
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Undergrad Why is energy not Lorentz invariant?
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Undergrad At what point does classical EM become relativistic EM?
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Undergrad Lorentz Transform: Justifying Use in Acceleration
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High School Why do we know space-time is locally flat?
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High School Help With the Twin Paradox: Why Does Time Dilation Apply?
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Graduate Deriving Amplification of Images in Schwartzschild Metric
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Graduate Linearized metric for GW emitting orbiting bodies
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Graduate Momentum Constraint in GR: ADM Formalism
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Undergrad Gravitational Potential Energy: 1/2 Factor Explained
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Undergrad What does the Einstein tensor actually tell you?
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High School Help With Units in General Relativity
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High School Is Time Perception Similar to Browsing the Web?
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Undergrad Noticing CTC's / time travel in a Godel space-time
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Graduate Riemann Tensor Equation: Simplifying the Riemann-Christoffel Tensor
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Undergrad Spacetime Metric Topology: Does g Induce O?
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High School Gravitational time dilation depth charge
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Undergrad Modeling the effects of GW and the "Earth Frame"
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Undergrad Can one determine the velocity of a photon in the fourth dimension using limits?
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Undergrad Conformal transformation of the line element
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High School Mach's Principle: Understanding the Universe's Rotation Around Us
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Graduate Relationship between metric tensor and position vector
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Undergrad Alice Sees Sudden Acceleration at Event Horizon
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Undergrad Understanding Relativistically Spinning Disk/Ring: Lorentz Boosts
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Undergrad Effect of Special Relativity on Spacecraft Thrust & Isp
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High School Can I get clarification on the constant speed of light
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Graduate Prep for Hawking/Ellis: Point Set Topology Needed
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Undergrad Comparing Gravitational Waves & Post-Newtonian Approximation
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Undergrad What is the Concept of Velocity and Acceleration in General Relativity?
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Undergrad What Actually Happens vs What You See in SR
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Insights Spacetime Diagrams of Light Clocks [comments]
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High School Box in gravitational field
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High School Could light be slowed down and be observed
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Undergrad What is the velocity of the photon through the fourth dimension x4?
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High School Light follows Geodesics-Spacetime-Big Bang-Time dilation
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