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Undergrad Simultaneity agreeing in different frames

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Graduate Why does special relativity fail where general relativity is needed?

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Undergrad Understanding Light Clock Confusion on Moving Trains - A Discussion

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Graduate The Infalling Traveler's Perspective on Time and Mass in a Black Hole

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Graduate Particle in Minkowski Space: Motion in a Flat Universe

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Graduate Time Dilation and different clock types

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Graduate Rotation in special relativity

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Graduate Why doesn't a ball roll off a moving platform in a relativistic frame?

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Graduate Time, spacelike foliations and timelike vector fields in GR

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Graduate Is "now" relative or absolute?

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Graduate Gravitational Fields: Same or Different?

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Undergrad Why unify gravity with other forces if it's fictitious

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Graduate Space-Time Curvature in General Relativity

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Graduate Deriving 8πG/c^4 in General Relativity

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Graduate Momentarily co-moving inertial frames

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Graduate Does Length Contraction affect measured velocity?

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High School Inertial Frames of Reference - Understanding Special Relativity for 11-Year-Olds

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Graduate Does mass or gravity curve spacetime and bend light?

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High School How Does Michelson-Morley Interferometer Measure Space-Time?

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Undergrad Does traveling near light speed shorten a 20 AU path through length contraction?

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Graduate Creating Mass w/ Velocity: Effects on EM Wave?

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Graduate Can faster-than-light travel reverse event ordering between distant observers?

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Graduate Derivation of Kirchhoff's Formula in Gravitational Radiation

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Graduate Did Synge's world function concept influence modern relativity literature?

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Undergrad Can we say Earth orbits the sun if the origin can be placed anywhere?

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Graduate Are spatial and temporal dimensions interchangeable?

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High School Could Everything on Earth Float Without Spacetime?

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Graduate How does gravity affect the path of light?

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Undergrad Gravitational Time Dilation: A Layman's Explanation

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Undergrad What does Purcell actually say about electromagnetism and relativity?

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Graduate SR as Geometrical Constructions

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High School Do black holes make the universe appear to expand away from the observer?

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Graduate What is the difference between standard and isotropic metrics?

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Graduate Cosmological constant times the metric tensor

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Graduate Is the equivalence principle related to the principle of relativity?

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Graduate Do event horizons have an inside, or just a frozen shell of energy?

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Undergrad SR Proves Eternalism: Is It Physically Substantial?

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Graduate Can You Truly Achieve No Motion in Space?

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Graduate Derivation from Landau and Liffshitz, vol 6

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Graduate Are Gravitational Waves Lossy?

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Graduate Alternative definitions of geodesic

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Graduate Covariant fields and new physics

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High School Is time dilation just a problem with our clocks?

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Graduate What is a gravity wave detector measuring?

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Graduate Is the center of mass fixed in Relativity?

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Undergrad What is the Principle of Equivalence and how was it determined?

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High School Where are the known stellar black holes and what are their properties?

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Graduate Why doesn't the vertical light beam get out of a black hole?

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Graduate Does gravity expand space or just curve it in all dimensions?

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Graduate Using Light as a absolute frame of reference?

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Graduate Why does a reflecting photon show time dilation but other particles don't?

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Graduate Einstein-Hilbert action origin

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Graduate Einstein's synchronous clocks in § 2 of relativity paper

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Graduate How to prove that something is a non-curvature singularity?

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Graduate Understanding Invariance of Spacetime Intervals

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Graduate What tidal effects would a person feel falling through Earth's center?

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Graduate What Would Happen if 2 People Were 1 Light Hour Apart?

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Graduate Where does the four-momentum concept come from in special relativity?

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Graduate What's the 3d equation of the Alcubierre warp?

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Graduate What is the relativity of simultaneity measuring?

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Graduate Traversable wormhole without negative energy (paper)

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Who discovered the concept of time

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Graduate 4 velocity in Schwarzchild metric

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Graduate Why don't my two formulas for force in relativistic motion match?

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Undergrad Relative Time in Space: What Speed for 1 Day Equals 1 Day on Earth?

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Graduate Twin paradox: how can Jim reach Alkaid in 7.92 years Earth time?

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Graduate Time Dilation by Light Alone? A Software Engineer's Exploration

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Graduate Observing the event horizon of a black hole

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Graduate Inertial observers explanation for unruh thermalization

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Graduate Muons hitting Earth half-life explanation in SR

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Graduate Why does a photon move through space and time on Minkowski diagrams?

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Graduate How long and far to accelerate a spaceship to light speed and back?

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Undergrad Why is the Constant in Mass-Energy Equivalence C^2?

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Graduate Do gravitational waves propogate slower when blocked by mass

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Graduate Does time dilation relate to differences in entropy rates?

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Graduate Why does a black hole appear to accelerate after the towing mass detaches?

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Graduate Does acceleration curve spacetime?

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Graduate Is Gravity Really the Weakest Force in the Universe?

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Undergrad Why does a black hole get bigger when it consumes mass?

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Graduate Problem with Purcell's model of electromagnetism

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Graduate Why does the traveling twin age less if all reference frames are equal?

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Insights Time Dilation and Redshift for a Static Black Hole - Comments

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Graduate Gravity, Time Dilation & Black Holes: Q&A

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Graduate Redshift effect And photon energy loss

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Graduate Proving Non-linear Wave Equation for Riemann Tensor

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Graduate Barut's Electrodynamics Identity Problem

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High School Electromagnets are a relativistic phenom?

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Graduate Very precise Michelson-Morley experiments

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Undergrad What is the 2D Concept of Spacetime and How Does It Work?

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Graduate What is the interpretation of a Misner string in Bonnor's theory?

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Undergrad Struggling with the Special Relativity and simultaneity

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Graduate Why must a length-preserving rotation matrix be orthogonal?

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Graduate How long does constant acceleration near lightspeed last?

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Undergrad Does time depend on speed; or on velocity?

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Graduate Calculating Total Time Dilation in a Falling Photon Experiment

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Graduate Space-Time Curvature: Evidence of Mass Effect?

  • Muhammad Sabih
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Undergrad Why is time not simply a measure of energy's change in position?

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Graduate Gravity's Effects on Light: Why Light Doesn't Always Follow a Straight Line

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Graduate Orientability of Null Submanifold w/ Boundary - Stokes' Theorem

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Undergrad Why is special relativity a local phenomenon?

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