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Graduate Can time dilation be explained by changes in the rate of entropy?
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Graduate Why the Delay? Uncovering Black Hole Reactions
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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 Time Dilation: Explained for Twin Paradox
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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 Proving "Rotation Matrix is Orthogonal: Necessary & Sufficient
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Graduate Time Dilation & Acceleration: Leaving Earth Effects
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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?
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Undergrad A Question about the empirical evidence of time
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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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Undergrad How Einstein believed that space is curved?
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Graduate Double covariant derivative of function of scalar
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Undergrad Lorentz Transforms & Distribution Funcs: Physics Intro Help
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Graduate How Does Einstein's Corner Term Challenge 5D General Relativity?
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Graduate Is Lorentz Contraction Specious for Photon Traversal Time?
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Graduate Witness the Sky of an Accelerated Black Hole
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Graduate De Sitter space, basic questions
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Graduate Why Don't Probes Approach Each Other at 1.5c in Relativity?
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Graduate Measuring Time: What Does it Mean?
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Graduate Are Gravity Waves Distortions of Space-Time That Create Gravitons?
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Graduate Inertial & Non-Inertial Frames: Laws of Physics Explained
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Graduate Need help understanding electromagnetics and relativity
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Graduate Is Gravity a Force or the Deformation of Space?
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Undergrad Black Holes - Spaghetification countered by time dilation?
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Insights Does Gravity Gravitate? Part 3 - The Wave - Comments
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Undergrad Why is E=MC^2 such a neat and simple formula?
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Graduate Could a massive gravitational field influence the speed of light?
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Graduate Time dilation - Is the time between events longer or shorter
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Graduate Can objects contract faster than the speed of light?
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Graduate Why does Mercury have an elliptical orbit?
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Undergrad Simultaneity: disagreement, in the same reference frame
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Graduate Creating Realistic CTCs in GR: Is it Possible?
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Graduate Basis vectors of Minkowski space
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Undergrad Mass-Energy Relation: Burning Wood & Speed of Light
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Insights Does Gravity Gravitate? Part 2 - Comments
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Graduate Objects at Speed of Light: Time Dilation on Stop
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Graduate SR & Lorentz Scalar Fields: Covariant Diff. & Wave Amplitude
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Graduate Second postulate of SR quiz question
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Graduate Understanding Einstein's Derivation of EM Transformations
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Graduate Can Energy-Mass really be conserved ?
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Graduate Wormholes, Gravity & Interaction: Can a Star Pull a Planet?
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Graduate Light Travel: How Can It Move Without Time?
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Graduate Tidal Forces in Accelerating Frames
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Undergrad Question about Relativity: Speed Through Space & Time
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Graduate Black Holes & Light: Can Light Escape?
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Graduate Model Mercury Orbit w/Relativity: Force of Gravity Calc Explained
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Graduate Mechanism to Prevent Mass Increase from Information Dumping into Black Holes
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Graduate Finding Function that Vanishes Only When x^mu = y^mu
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Graduate Are frames in physics necessary?
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Graduate Sign of Kretschmann Scalar in Kerr Metric
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Graduate Non-Static Spacetime: Is It an Approximation?
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Graduate Gravitational Lock in GR: Earth-Venus Positioning
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Graduate A problem with polar coordinates and black hole
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Graduate General Relativity & Differential Geometry Q&A
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Graduate Questions After Reading "The Beginning of Infinity" by David Deutsch
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Graduate Laws of physics in noninertial frames
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Graduate GR Schutz: Why r Must Decrease in Black Hole Section?
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Insights How Fast Do Changes in the Gravitational Field Propagate? - Comments
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Graduate Gravity's Influence on 2 Isolated Hydrogen Atoms
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Graduate Distance function in Riemannian normal coordinates
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Undergrad Closed Timelike Curves Explained in Layman's Terms
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Graduate Can black holes grow if nothing can enter them?
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Insights Does Gravity Gravitate? - Comments
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Graduate Why does light have a speed at all?
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Graduate Lorentz invariant integral measure
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Graduate Relativity Theory: Bill & Nancy's Observer Question
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Graduate The definition of a field supposes simultaneity?
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Graduate Direct Product vs Tensor Product
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Graduate How Does Chirality Relate to Angular Momentum in Einstein-Cartan Theory?
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Undergrad Does Destroying an Atomic Clock Really Stop Time?
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Graduate Can you use the Lorentz transform for a function of time?
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Graduate Time dilation in an elliptical orbit
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Graduate Single chart which covers entire [itex]S^1\times R[/itex] manifold
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Graduate Direction of E field transforms like direction of a stick
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Graduate Derive Reissner Nordstrom Eq. (8) Explained
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Graduate Index Gymnastics: 2 More Questions
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Undergrad E=mc2: What is the Term for this Energy?
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Graduate Boundary Construction for B.H. & B.B. Singularities
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Graduate Discussion on tensor dimensions
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Undergrad Time dilation on the surface of the sun
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Graduate Equation of motion from the action
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Graduate What is the volume of the universe using a spacetime metric approach?
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High School Alternative Interpretation of Bell Test: 40 Nanoseconds & Photon Perspective
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Graduate Bob's Relativistic Velocity Addition: 0.9c for Alice & Charlie
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