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High School How to simply solve for E=MC^2?

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Graduate Why Do Torsion Tensor Derivations Differ Between Sources?

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High School Gravity & Acceleration: Is Space Shortening Explained?

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Undergrad Calculating Radius and Mass of Disc for Velocity 0.75C

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Graduate Anti-symmetric Christoffel symbol

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Graduate Interpretation of the EM tensor as a rotation matrix

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High School Virtual Particle Speed: Is It Measurable?

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Graduate Curvature tensor in all flat space coordinates

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High School Einstein's Greatest Mistake? Examining the Lorentz Transformation

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High School Rod falling radially towards the center of a mass

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Undergrad Is the universe a larger version of a black hole?

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High School Can gravitational wave escape a black hole

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Undergrad MOND: Explaining the “Missing Mass” Problem in Galaxies

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Undergrad Metric Conservation Law in 2D Spacetime

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Undergrad Do Distant Planets Move Faster Than Light Seen From Earth?

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Graduate Q: Scalar Boundary Condition & U(1) Isometry - Lewkowycz & Maldacena

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High School Can a Spaceship Use a Planet's Gravity Like a Treadmill?

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Graduate What is the coordinate free stress-energy-momentum tensor

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Undergrad Velocity of Timelike Curve in Special Relativity

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Undergrad Clarifying Equivalence Principle

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Graduate Field of Moving Masses: EM Purcell

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Undergrad Taylor and Wheeler's Spacetime Physics (1st Edition)

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High School The Nature of Light: A Scientific Exploration.

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Graduate Was the LIGO team over-hasty to claim black holes confirmed?

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Undergrad Morin's Rocket Example: Chapter 12, Page 606

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High School Why do gravitational waves propagate at the speed of light?

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Graduate Mapping Tangent Space to Manifold - Questions & Answers

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High School Understanding the Sign of Relative Velocity in Approaching Observers

  • Jeronimus
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High School Kinetic Energy Dependent on Frame of Reference?

  • UMath1
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High School Black Hole SHM: Gravitational Force

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Undergrad Show 4-Potential is 4-Vector in Lorenz Gauge

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Graduate Least Action Principle Applied to Vector Field ##A_{\mu}##

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Undergrad Speed of light or Speed limit of Spacetime?

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High School Time travel with tachyons cause infinite dilemma?

  • Cameron MacGillivray
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Undergrad Communicating at Near-Light Speed - Time Dilation

  • SF Alba
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Undergrad Motivation for the usage of 4-vectors in special relativity

  • Frank Castle
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Undergrad Is motion through space or spacetime?

  • Frank Castle
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High School Could information travel faster than C

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Undergrad Are the Lorentz transformation formulas on wikipedia correct?

  • Jeronimus
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Undergrad Does non-gravitational acceleration produce waves?

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High School How does relativity impact our everyday lives beyond GPS and nuclear energy?

  • Stephanus
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High School Can a black hole event horizon grow at the speed of light?

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Undergrad Space & Time: 2 Qs for Forum Members

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Undergrad Gravitational Constant in GR: How & Why?

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Graduate Theories that respect one form of the equivalence principle but violate another

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Undergrad Energy Locally Never Negative: Explained

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High School Does space contraction regard the moving body or the path?

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Graduate Relativistic orbital precession in practice

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Graduate Momentum 4 Vector Notation: Differences Explained

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Undergrad Production of Gravitational Waves Problem: Energy Flux

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Graduate Covariant derivative definition in Wald

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Undergrad Proper mapping of the second postulate into math

  • Jeronimus
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Undergrad Why curved spacetime produces gravity (am I right?)

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Undergrad Why Can't Lorentz Boosts be Used for Length Contraction?

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High School Magnetic field at relativistic speed

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Undergrad Spacetime Changes vs Matter Location Inside

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Undergrad What is Planck curvature and its significance in the expansion of the universe?

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High School Is the Universe discrete or continuous?

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Graduate Understanding Dirac Adjoint Derivation & Spinor Transformations

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High School Newtonian vs Relativistic Mechanics

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Graduate Investigations into a heuristic Lagrangian of graviton field

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Undergrad Event Horizon of Telescope Through Earth: Does It Exist?

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High School Golf Ball in Flat Space-Time: Return or Shift?

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Undergrad Implications of Relative Simultaneity: Carl & Shirley's Observations

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High School Torch Contraction Problem in SR: A and B Observe Differently

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Undergrad Clock Thought Exp: A Light-Year Time Paradox

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Undergrad Are Special Relativity effects valid for angular velocity?

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High School What Is Negative Energy and How Does It Affect the Universe?

  • Stephen Brackin
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Graduate GWs energy and aLIGO detection

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Undergrad Parametrisation of timelike curves using proper time

  • Frank Castle
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Graduate Do black holes lose hair in finite time?

  • haael
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High School Relativistic Sphere: Length Contraction & Volume

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Undergrad Is Maxwellian Gravitoelectromagnetism a useful analogy?

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High School How to Develop in Series: Definition & Examples

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Insights Roger Babson's Anti-Gravity Contest - Comments

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Undergrad Zeroth component of 4-momentum & energy-momentum relation

  • Frank Castle
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High School Do All Black Holes Have the Same Density?

  • EnumaElish
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Undergrad (How) does the LIGO experiment falsify Newtonian gravity?

  • EnumaElish
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High School Time Dilation & Relativity: Going Back

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Undergrad How Are Gravitational Waves Connected to Black Holes?

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High School Space-Time: Does it Follow Newton's Third Law?

  • Nihad Nazmul
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Undergrad Mass to Energy Transformation for ordinary Chemical reaction

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Undergrad Uncharged Particle near Charged Mass

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Undergrad Breakthrough Starshot: 1st Macroscopic Test of Longitudinal Acceleration

  • greswd
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Insights A Geometrical View of Time Dilation and the Twin Paradox - Comments

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High School How can we tell that "fictitious forces" are not real?

  • Comradez
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Undergrad What is the essence of general relativity for beginners?

  • LSMOG
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High School What are Lorentz Factors? | Definition & Explanation

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Undergrad My lecturer says "Special relativity is absolutely wrong"

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High School Escape Velocity & Black Holes: Can Something Escape?

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Undergrad Gravity Waves & Gravitomotive Force: Is Rotation Possible?

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Graduate NASA's experiment with a gyroscope featured in Fabric of the Cosmos

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Undergrad Why is speed of light constant in all frames of reference?

  • LSMOG
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Undergrad Normal Vector & Acceleration: An Explanation for Julien

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Undergrad Definition of a Lorentzian Wormhole

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Undergrad Doppler shift for an observer in circular motion

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Graduate Numerical simulation the n-body problem under SR model

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Undergrad Stanford: objects in spacetime all move at constant speed c?

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High School Acceleration at Near-Light Speed: Answers

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High School Why does time slow down instead of speed up when traveling at high speeds?

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