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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?
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Graduate GWs energy and aLIGO detection
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Undergrad Parametrisation of timelike curves using proper time
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Graduate Do black holes lose hair in finite time?
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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
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High School Do All Black Holes Have the Same Density?
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Undergrad (How) does the LIGO experiment falsify Newtonian gravity?
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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?
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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
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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?
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Undergrad What is the essence of general relativity for beginners?
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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?
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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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Undergrad Light speed and the LIGO experiment
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Undergrad Understanding 4-Momentum in General Relativity
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Graduate Meaning of ds^2 according to Carroll
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Undergrad Is the Block Universe Model Necessary if Presentism Can Adapt to Relativity?
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Undergrad Newtonian limit of Schwarzschild metric
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High School Understanding Gravity & Orbits in Light of Relativity
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Undergrad De Broglie Matter Waves: Where Does the Fraction Come From?
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Graduate Metric of n-sheeted AdS_3: Constructing BTZ
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Undergrad Can Tachyonic Antitelephone Overcome Causality and Chronology Protection?
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High School Does your age only change when accelerating?
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Graduate Equation of Motion of Spin Connection: Help Needed
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High School Is the mass of a photon always negligible compared to that of a proton?
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High School Gravitational Waves Speed: Can We Observe It?
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Undergrad Geodesics in Curved Spacetime: What is the Significance of the ct Increment?
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Undergrad Generalization of Lorentz ether
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High School Understanding the Cosmic Microwave Background
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Undergrad Is Zitterbewegung Considered in the Theory of Relativity?
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Undergrad New interpretations of the Pioneer effect ?
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Undergrad Understanding 4-Momentum in Special Relativity
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High School GR: Using Earth as a Reference Frame - Q&A
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High School Possible title: Could Discontinuous Spacetime Explain Gravity?
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High School Einstein's theory of relativity
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Undergrad Confusion about killing horizon in Carroll
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Undergrad The Order and Valence of Tensors
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Undergrad Proving Orthogonality of Vector w/ Schnutz Special Relativity Tensors
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Undergrad Open Problem in S.R. Pre-Determinism: Unresolvable Question
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High School Help understanding this derivation of relativistic Doppler
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Undergrad Deriving Einstein's Relativity Postulates from Minkowski Spacetime
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High School Understanding Symmetry: Navigating Observations and Asymmetry in Closed Systems
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Graduate Evolution of Scalar Field: Equation Demonstration
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High School Length contraction vs Space time
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Undergrad Measuring Speed of Light from Galaxies & Shapiro Time Delay
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Undergrad Time Dilation: Lorentz Transf. & Proper Time Equations
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Undergrad Frame dependency of accelerations
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High School A Speed of Light Theoretical Question
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Undergrad Basic question, harmonic coordinate condition algebra
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Undergrad Question about Mercury's orbit discrepancy
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Undergrad Volume of light cones of two events
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High School Why Do Newton's Laws of Motion Fail at Relativistic Speeds?
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High School Object's Velocity in Black Hole: Calculate Final Vel.
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Graduate Alpha Variation vs Cosmological Expansion: Basics Explained
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Undergrad Dark Energy vs Gravity: Expansion vs Contraction
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Undergrad Composite Galilean transformation in 2 dimensions
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Undergrad General Relativity within the confines of a Hilbert Space
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Graduate Time Travel to Future: Is There a Minimum Speed?
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Undergrad Motivation for the introduction of spacetime
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Undergrad Researching Causal Structure in Classical GR for Graduate Course
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Undergrad Did universe expand faster than speed of light?
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Undergrad Light deflection and geodesics
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High School "Length contraction" prior to observation/measurement
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Undergrad Defining Spacetime Coordinates
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Undergrad Why is B's clock in advance instead of A's?
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Undergrad Gravitational Waves: Questions from Josh on Mass & Space-Time
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Graduate Force Question – Einstein Gravitational Constant
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Undergrad Conservation of matter energy momentum tensor beyond GR
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Undergrad Understanding Falling with Horizontal Velocity
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High School Would time slow down tied to a nuclear-powered oscillator?
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High School Speed of Objects Falling to Black Hole Center
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High School Can a Photonic Boom Explain the Origin of the Universe?
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Graduate Calculate the Weyl and Ricci scalars for a given metric
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High School How Do Electron Orbitals Work at Relativistic Speeds?
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High School Understanding E=mc^2: Lorentz Contraction and Time Dilation Calculator
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