Special and General Relativity Forum

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Undergrad Does the 1 Second after the Big Bang = 1 second now?

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Graduate Metric with Harmonic Coefficient and General Relativity

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Graduate Speed of Light in All Reference Frames: A Question

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Undergrad Gravitational Lagrangian density

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High School Is Gravity Really Just Curved Spacetime?

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High School Understanding Minkowski Diagrams in Special Relativity

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Undergrad Why does time dilation affect all clocks equally?

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Undergrad Velocity Addition: Physical Meaning of Non-Singularity at c?

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Undergrad Question about cosmological constant

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High School Experimental evidence that pure energy can curve spacetime?

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Undergrad Cosmological Constant Problem: Pre-Req Knowledge for Paper

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Graduate Stress energy tensor general relativity

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Undergrad Minkowski diagrams without scales on axes

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Undergrad Leading and lagging clock times in Lorentz Transforms

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Undergrad Special relativity and magnetism

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Undergrad Wald's Mistake on Einstein Tensor pg 97?

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Undergrad If c changes w/ time, what happens with laws of SR?

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Undergrad Galilean Relativity: Can Experiments Tell Motion Relative to Other Frames?

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High School Einstein Elevator: Time Dilation Questions Answered

  • Stephanus
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Undergrad Book Suggestions: Learn Einstein's General Theory of Relativity

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High School LIGO Detection Question: Why Lighter Masses Mean More Time

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Undergrad Understanding General Relativity

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Graduate Rumors of Gravitational Wave Inspiral at Advanced LIGO | Sept 2015 Launch

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High School Observer Sees When I Throw Ball at Speed of Light

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Undergrad Friedman-Robertson-Walker metric

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High School What Happens to Spacetime Fabric at a Black Hole's Singularity When It Moves?

  • mikeeey
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Undergrad Parametrizing a path through spacetime

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Undergrad Holographic Principle discussion in Sean Carroll's book

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Graduate What is the Topological Structure of Hypersurfaces in General Relativity?

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Undergrad Meaning of the equivalence principle in General relativity

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High School Could a black hole involve a phase transition?

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Undergrad Gravitational Waves Vs. Aether Wind

  • ScientificMind
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High School From dE=dm*c^2 to E=m*c^2: Integration constant?

  • greypilgrim
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Graduate Prove Constant Curvature: Homogeneity Implied by Cosmological Principle

  • JonnyG
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Graduate John Norton on the Hole Argument

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Graduate An observation on potential energy in GR

  • Jonathan Scott
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Undergrad Reconciling Simultaneity & Relativity: Navigating the Spacetime Maze

  • nomadreid
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Undergrad Black Hole & Spacetime Curvature: Can Mass Decrease It?

  • Felix Quintana
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Undergrad Time Dilation Explained: Muon Decay & Reaching Earth

  • Quandry
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High School Who Compresses More: Obj1 or Obj2 at C Speeds?

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High School Twin Paradox Visualization: Understanding with Java & Diagrams

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Undergrad SR Pseudo-Paradox: Photons Affected by Emitter?

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High School Some basic questions about length contraction in SR

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Undergrad Time Dilation & Differential Aging: Defined

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High School Crashing into an event horizon

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Undergrad Could it be meaningful to speak of the "density of space"?

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Undergrad Is there any 2D surface whose metric tensor is eta?

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High School Deriving Special Relativity Formulae Steps

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High School Question about Michelson-Morley experiment

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Undergrad Quantum Mechanics & Relativity: Vacuum Connection?

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High School Understand Proper Distances in SR/GR: A Layman's Guide

  • rede96
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Undergrad Relativistic Momentum Invariance in Perpendicular Boosts

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Undergrad Galilean Equivalence Principle: Extended Objects

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Undergrad Fixed Stars Moving Faster Than Light? Problem?

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Undergrad Opposite of Black Hole - Matter Repulsion?

  • Felix Quintana
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Graduate Interpretation of [itex]\partial_\nu T^{\mu \nu}[/itex]

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Undergrad Special relativity of two clocks

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High School Does time stop at the center of a black hole?

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High School Connected events at opposite ends of a photon's travel

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Graduate How Does the Penrose Process Allow for Energy Extraction from a Black Hole?

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Graduate Which Representation of Christoffel Symbols is Correct?

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Graduate Deriving Einstein's Equation: Calculating ##R_{00}##

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High School Derivation of E=Mc2? For the common man

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High School What Does it Mean When a Black Hole is Spinning?

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Undergrad Small back hole merging more massive body

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Undergrad Looking out from a event horizon

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Undergrad Gravitational Mass of Photons: Passive & Active

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High School Time Dilation Model & Wave Interference: Newbie Questions Answered

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High School How well is Time understood i. Space time?

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High School Space-Time & Strings: Current Thinking?

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Insights A Problem from "Incandescence" - Comments

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Graduate Einstein & Light Deviation: Compute w/o Schwarzschild Metric

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Undergrad Do Fields Affect 4-Momentum Conservation?

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Undergrad Time dilation in special vs. general relativity

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Undergrad Maxwell's Homogeneous Eqns: Notation Explained | Mick

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Undergrad How Do You Correctly Apply Indices in Tensor Calculus for Curvature?

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Graduate Stress-Energy Tensor: Basics & Questions

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High School Calculating Mass for Gravitational Time Dilation

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High School Gravity Effects on EM Wave Phase Change

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Graduate Are temperature and pressure related by relativity?

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Graduate Conservation of Electromagnetic Energy-Momentum Tensor

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Undergrad Light Beam Bending by Mass: Equation & Explanation

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Undergrad Tensor Formalism in GR: Why We Need Tensors

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Undergrad Permeability/permittivity constants and one way speed of c

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Undergrad Raising index on covariant derivative operator?

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High School Do Higher-Dimensional Objects Experience Length Contraction in 3D Space?

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Undergrad Qs re Hawking Radiation – Part I

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High School Why r=0 is inevitable when crossing horizon?

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Undergrad Hawking Radiation: Qs re Energy Density at r > Rc

  • Buzz Bloom
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Undergrad 2D Time dilation simulation with several clocks?

  • greypilgrim
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Undergrad Cosmological Constant: Expanding Universe & Data Contradiction

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Undergrad Space and time as fields of mass-energy

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Graduate Subtraction of Christoffel symbol

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Undergrad Field equations fully written out

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Undergrad GR vs SR: Is a Connection Necessary?

  • greypilgrim
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Undergrad Consequences of length contraction

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Undergrad Gravitational potential energy and rest mass

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Undergrad Time dilation in relativistic Doppler effect

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High School Energy required to change speed?

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Graduate Are Killing Horizon and Stationary Limit Surface the same?

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