Special and General Relativity Forum

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Undergrad Special relativity thought experiment

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High School Brian Greenes' Tornado Analogy

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Undergrad Do gravitational waves transmit energy in all cases?

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Undergrad Gravitational Waves: Time, Synchronization, Speed

  • Karl Coryat
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Undergrad Relativity of simultaneity and quantum measurement outcomes

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Undergrad Twin Paradox Resolution -- Inertial frames

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Undergrad Frame-Independent Set of Events?

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Undergrad Do gravity waves affect subatomic equilibrium and photon clock directionality?

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Graduate How is time defined without a frame of reference?

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Undergrad Does mass become infinite near the speed of light?

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Graduate ALIGO interferometer sensitivity

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Graduate Can Light Move Inside a Black Hole Event Horizon?

  • Italian_Mike
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Graduate Are Gravitational Waves and Waves Transmitting Curvature Changes Different?

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Graduate Understanding a0 in Paper: Page 9 of 1405.1283v1

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Undergrad Anthropic Lower Limit on Cosmological Constant

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Graduate Spacetime Engineering by Superposition of GWs: Feasible in Theory?

  • sanman
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Graduate Force based explanation of gravity waves still possible?

  • cube137
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Graduate How did LIGO estimate the distance of the black holes?

  • JK423
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Undergrad Shooting Video on Planet Z Near a Black Hole

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Graduate LIGO released GW150914 data with a signal processing tutorial

  • websterling
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Who will win the 2016 Nobel Prize for gravitational waves?

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Graduate Do photons of different wavelengths bend differently in a gravitational field?

  • chimera27
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Undergrad Is Gravity Really the Weakest Fundamental Force?

  • Saffat Rafsan
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High School What's the reference frame for the universe as a whole?

  • jhus96
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Graduate Perihelion Shift in Near-Circular Orbits: 6πm/a + Higher Order Terms

  • Jorrie
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Undergrad Travelling (at) the speed of light away from a lightsource

  • lolcopters
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Graduate How is 1/√(1-u'²/c²) = γ(1-vu_x/c²)/√(1-u²/c²)?

  • little neutrino
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Graduate Time dilation and acceleration due to gravity

  • hypermental
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Graduate Is there a smallest possible gravitational wave?

  • Cato
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Graduate A drunk falling into a black hole

  • Adel Makram
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Graduate Simple derivation: sphere contracting under gravity

  • HowardTheDuck
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Graduate Equivalence principle and mass

  • fog37
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Graduate Calculate Parallel Transport: Get Out of Logical Loop

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Graduate Do colinear free-falling objects have constant relative velocity in GR?

  • davidfrankli32
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Graduate Unresolved background of gravitational waves?

  • bcrowell
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Graduate What does the polarization of a photon signify in quantum field theory?

  • carllacan
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Graduate Assumptions of the Schwarzschild solution to the EFE

  • redtree
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Graduate What Happens to Mass When Black Holes Move?

  • 1832vin
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Graduate Why does spacetime curvature influence itself in general relativity?

  • Neutrinos02
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Graduate Can a gravitational wave kill you?

  • Idunno
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Graduate Is light speed really constant?

  • Erez Lerner
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Graduate Can a non-local manifold coexist with a spacetime manifold?

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Graduate Detecting Interference Pattern Changes in LIGO Measurement

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Graduate How does time dilation affect travel time to Kepler-452b at relativistic speeds?

  • kvnsmnsn
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Graduate Gravitational redshift in GW150914 near merging black holes

  • Leo.Ki
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Graduate Gravitational Waves: Were They Stronger Long Ago?

  • Gerinski
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High School Relativity of Simultaneity - Missing Event

  • Sisoeff
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High School How Does Relativity Deal with Simultaneity as a Requirement?

  • Sisoeff
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Graduate Line element and derivation of lagrange equation

  • Alain De Vos
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Graduate Dr Greg Blocking Question: Why?

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Graduate Derivation of the Christoffel symbol

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Graduate Recording gravity waves over the noise floor

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Undergrad Relativity of Simultaneity and Time

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Graduate Why was the LIGO Livingston signal weaker and delayed?

  • Cuboctonion
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Graduate What is information in the context of black holes?

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Graduate Magnetic Field due to a Point Charge

  • Electric to be
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Graduate How to synchronize clocks in accelerating frame?

  • Adel Makram
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Undergrad How does gravitational wave discovery support Einstein's spacetime curvature model?

  • JerryF
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Graduate How is the zero point of energy defined in general relativity?

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Graduate Can sound wave speed be derived from gravitational wave energy?

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Graduate Newton potential transformation under divergence-free accelerations

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Graduate Gravitational Waves-Longitudinal or transverse

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Undergrad Why is microgravity experienced on the ISS despite the presence of gravity?

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Graduate Does gravity cause spacetime curvature or does curvature cause gravity?

  • DWEdmondson
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Graduate Ricci tensor and scalar outside general relativity for intuition

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High School Who really understands time dilation and relativity?

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Graduate Explicitly Deriving Spinor Representations from Lorentz Group

  • JonnyMaddox
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High School Can light cones in relativity really be represented as hemispheres?

  • Grimble
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Graduate How Does Relativistic Speed Affect the Force Exerted by a Train on Rails?

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Graduate Diagnosing an Equation in General Relativity

  • Adam35
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Graduate Seizmic Activity & Quantum Gravity: LIGO Info & Plans

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Undergrad Increase Mass/Energy of Stationary Spacecraft?

  • danndann1
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Graduate Change the FAQ? Also, how can 0-volume objects collide?

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Graduate Why is 1/G Used in GR Lagrangian?

  • nickyrtr
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Graduate Why is time asymmetrical compared to spatial dimensions?

  • sanman
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Graduate Would a Alcubierre drive produce a gravity wave wake?

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Graduate Questions About Gravitational Waves

  • Ontophobe
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Graduate What Causes Spacetime to Return to Uniformity?

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Graduate Gravitational Waves and Frame-Dragging

  • sanman
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Graduate How LIGO determined the source of detected gravitational waves

  • gravity_devourer
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Graduate What are gravitational waves in general, not just in weak field theory?

  • martinbn
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Graduate How long until a second gravitational wave detection confirms LIGO's first event?

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Graduate Does relativistic mass affect kinetic energy, gravity and particle speeds?

  • GTOM
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Graduate Does LIGO Ruling Out Linear Gravity Theories?

  • Gravitoastronomy
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Graduate Can gravity waves extract mass from black holes and encode information?

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High School Gravity-Velocity: Clarifying the Confusion

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Undergrad Michelson-Morley Exp: Does this Paper Have Validity?

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Graduate How can distance be constant if time dilates for a traveling observer?

  • merwyn
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Graduate Do the Conditions of the Big Bang and Light Speed Travel Share Similarities?

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Graduate Transformation to locally flat coordinates

  • Whitehole
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Graduate Is the Gravitational Twin Paradox Solved by Calculating Geodesic Paths?

  • FallenApple
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Graduate Trying to understand length contraction

  • Jmundi
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Graduate Gravitational waves speed in a medium

  • Gerinski
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Undergrad Does length contraction result from bent space or from relativity of simultaneity?

  • sawer
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Undergrad Gravity Wave Measurement: Measuring the Relative

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Graduate How did black holes merge in finite time?

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Graduate What is the Source of 3 Sun M Energy Released in BH Merger?

  • clinden
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Graduate How Do LIGO Photons Experience Shapiro Delay in Gravitational Waves?

  • Leo.Ki
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Graduate Thought experiments about Gravitational Waves

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Graduate Gravitational Waves research and Dark Matter

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