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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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High School Gravity: Mass vs. Size Explained
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Graduate Sending Info at Relativistic Speeds? | Doppler Effect | Horizons Photo
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Graduate Relativity and conservation laws
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Graduate What is the Kretschmann Invariant?
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Graduate Time Dilation: Twins Separated by Black Hole's Gravity
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Insights Why Does C Have a Particular Value, and Can It Change? - Comments
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Undergrad Time Dilation due to Gravity: Formula Explained
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High School Stretched piece of spacetime example appropriate for student
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Graduate Deriving Riemann Tensor Comp. in General Frame
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Graduate Solve TOV for Non-Constant Density Star - Friends Help Needed!
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Graduate Light & Gravity: Momentum Exchange Examined
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Undergrad Why does gravity affect time in space?
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Graduate Leonard Wiechert Potential: Coulomb Law & Lorentz Transforms
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Graduate Relativity & Dipole Radiation: Reconciling Perspectives
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Graduate Is Special Relativity Correct for Observer A?
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High School Moving clock, what exaclty "ticks" slower then the stationar
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Graduate Gravitational Constant: Why Is It Fundamental?
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High School Is Time Travel Possible Beyond the Speed of Light?
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Graduate Are light and time somehow intertwined?
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Undergrad Would Gravity Exist Without Inertia?
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Graduate Lorentz transformation matrix and its inverse
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Graduate Wait.... what causes gravity again?
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Graduate Why is the magnitude of 4-velocity always equal to the square of c?
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Graduate Can kinetic energy lead to black hole?
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Graduate Andromeda paradox and determinism?
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Graduate How can light be trapped in a black hole?
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Graduate Is caustic surface of an astrophysical black hole one event?
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Graduate Cauchy-Schwarz for two spacelike vectors
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Graduate The Relativistic Figure Skater
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Graduate Relativistic Transformation of Lorentz Force (E + v x B)
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Graduate Can You Move Faster Than Light Relative to Another Object?
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Graduate Super Translations Explained | Stephen Hawking
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Graduate What is the Conformal Boundary of AdS Space?
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Graduate Which text on differential geometry to supplement relativity
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Graduate Penrose Diagram for Multi-Blackhole Solutions: Reference
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Undergrad How do we know the speed of light is constant?
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Graduate Is Gravitational Force conserved at the origin (r=0)?
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Graduate Does time dilation affect only the measurement of time?
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Graduate Do we move in the Universe? Or is everything stationary
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Graduate Gravitating Body Acceleration: Bob vs Jim
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Graduate Necessary conditions for a Penrose diagram?
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Graduate If the concept of relativistic mass is rejected....
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Undergrad Why Does Momentum Matter for Space but Not Time?
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Undergrad Which is Moving Faster? Basic Question Explained
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Graduate Determine Absolute Speed Using Time Dilation
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Graduate Why Is the K/r^2 Formula Incompatible with Special Relativity?
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Graduate Gravitational Paradox: Solving the Unsolvable
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Graduate Surpassing the speed of light? Why not?
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Graduate The Mysterious Synchronization of Clocks in Special Relativity
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Graduate What is the transformation law for tensor components in differential geometry?
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Graduate Directional Derivative of Ricci Scalar: Lev-Civita Connection?
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Graduate Is this magnetic wormhole really a wormhole?
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Graduate Partial Derivative of x^2 on Manifold (M,g)
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Graduate Questions on tensors in GR and the Newtonian limit
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Graduate Closed system Energy transformation
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Graduate Every event is simultaneous with you at some time: proof?
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Graduate Connection between Einstein-Cartan and "Baby Universes"
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Insights Relativistic Work-kinetic Energy Theorem - Comments
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Graduate In c-v what is v, the train's speed relative to?
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High School Machian Relativity: New Theory Glyn Phillips Can't Disprove
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Graduate Computational General Relativity
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Undergrad Calculating the Riemann Tensor for a 4D Sphere
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Graduate Puzzle of negative result of Michelson Morley experiment
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Graduate What is a nonscalar curvature singularity?
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Graduate What Happens When Your Spaceship Is Longer Than the Universe?
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Graduate Could extreme time dilation ever be directly observed?
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High School Bell spaceship paradox - qualitatively
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Graduate Bell spaceship paradox quantitatively
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Insights A Short Proof of Birkhoff's Theorem - Comments
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Graduate Question regarding a twin paradox related example
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Graduate Definition for curvature of worldline in Minkowski space
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High School Extreme Gravity Waves: A Phenomenon That Can Alter Time on Earth
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Graduate Faster Than Light: Nullifying Mass with E=MC2
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