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Graduate Proving Maxwell's Equations are Lorentz Invariant
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Graduate Speed of Light - Questions & Answers
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Graduate Athlete Holding a 20m Pole in a 10m House
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Graduate How Does Time Dilation Affect Hawking Radiation Emission Near Black Holes?
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Graduate Measuring One-Way Speed of Light
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Graduate Spacetime Curvature: Does It Affect Objects?
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Graduate Force Transform Applying: Question on a Specific Case
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Graduate Let's Sort Out This Gravity Thing - c And All That
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Graduate Is All Motion Relative to Feynman's Path Integral?
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Graduate Hamiltonian of General Relativity
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Graduate New MINOS measurement of neutrinos speed through earth
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Graduate How to determine which clock runs slower in relativity?
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Undergrad Effects of Velocity Aberration?
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Undergrad Speed of Light: Does Intensity & Frequency Affect It?
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Graduate Is speed of light in vacuum an axiom in relativity?
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Graduate Special Relativity: Astronaut & Earth Light Speed Paradox
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Graduate Metric Tensor of a line element
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Graduate Deriving the Definition of the Christoffel Symbols
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Graduate Time Travel & Gravitational Time Dilation Function
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Graduate Is Poincaré's Space Dilemma the Key to Understanding Gravity?
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Graduate Gravity Forces Us to Move: PF Forum
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Graduate "Semi" Synchronous coordinates
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Graduate Is there measureable spacetime distortion from EM fields
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Graduate How should I think about null geodesics?
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Graduate Apparent horizon for the eternally accelerated observer
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Graduate Schutz page 294 (Deflection of light)
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Graduate Electric Field in Gravitational Shockwave Geometry?
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Undergrad What is the smallest practical unit of time?
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Graduate What is the difference between locality and causality?
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Graduate Understanding the Laws of Physics in SR: Questions & Answers
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Graduate Write Torsion Tensor: Definition, Metric Tensor & Equation
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Graduate Age of Universe for High Velocity Planet?
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Undergrad Can Space Aircraft Reach Speed of Light in Vacuum?
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Graduate Bending space and space time - what is the difference?
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Graduate What is the cause of time dilation in Special Relativity?
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Graduate What info do I get from these tensors?
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Undergrad What exactly is a hypersurface?
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Graduate Einstein-Cartan Field Equations Derivation
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Undergrad What is the 4th Dimension - 3D World + Time or 4 Axis?
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Undergrad Basis Vector in GR: Cartesian Plane Comparisons
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Graduate Penrose Diagrams: How to Create with Known Spacetime Metric
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Graduate Is time a vector? if it is, what is its direction?
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Graduate Is Λa_b the Same as Λba in Tensor Notation?
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Graduate Are Newton's Laws Still Valid Near Black Hole Orbits?
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Graduate Implications of the tensorial form of the EFE
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Undergrad Scalar Product of Orthonormal Basis: Equal to 1?
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Graduate Reconciling Constant Speed of Light & Relativity
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High School How many times did the machine actually travel around the Earth?
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Graduate Space-Time Relativity: Finite Time & Measuring Time
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Graduate What is the definition of Locality (in QFT)
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Graduate Time Dilation with a Tennis Ball
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Graduate How Does Time Dilation Affect the Forces Between Fast-Moving Objects?
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Graduate Generalized velocity addition and aberration formulas
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Graduate Simultaneous events, space-like separation & QFT
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Graduate Equations of motion for an observer falling radially into a blackhole
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Graduate Orthonormal Basis: Definition & Scalar Product in GR
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Graduate Doppler Effect & Time Dilation: Explained
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Graduate On the one way speed of light....
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Graduate Energy conservation and wormholes
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Graduate 2 simple special relativity thought experiments
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Undergrad What if the Halo Ring from "Halo" turned into a blackhole?
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Graduate Energy Tensor & Field Equation | Einstein Theory
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Graduate Quantized Kinetic Energy of Relativistic Objects
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Graduate Difference between Co-variant and Contra-variant vectors?
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Graduate Frame of Reference Dependant Mass & the Resulting Conflicts
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Graduate Basic doubt of special relativity
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Undergrad Time Dilation & Mass: Does 2x Mass Mean 2x Slower Time?
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Graduate An observation about relativistic space travel....
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Graduate Material Behavior at the Event Horizon
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Graduate The sign of the cosmological term
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Graduate Nature of Geodesic: Determine Without Knowing Metric?
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Graduate Fall into Space-Time's Minimum Point
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Undergrad Can the Rest Mass of an Object Change Over Time?
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Graduate Understanding the Relativity of Simultaneity in Special Relativity
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Undergrad Is Freefall Really Not Accelerated Motion? Debunking Common Misconceptions
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Graduate Gravitational Velocity of Mass ##M## at Distance ##d## from Gravitating Body
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Graduate Clarifying Robertson-Walker Metric Math Objects
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Graduate A question on length contraction
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Graduate Electrodynamics in Robertson Walker spacetime
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Graduate Writing Non-Coordinate Basis Continuity Eqs: $\nabla_a T^{ab}$
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Graduate Measuring Speed of Light with One Clock
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Graduate Lower gravity and higher time dilation?
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Graduate Relationship between gravitational time dilation and energy?
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Graduate Alcubierre drive, could it cause inconsistencies?
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Graduate Understanding Einstein's field equations
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Graduate Line element in Euclidean Space
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Graduate Do different frames of reference experience time dilation at the same rate?
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Graduate Unraveling the Mystery of Spin Connection in an Expanding Universe
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Graduate Calculating area and volume for Diagonal Metrics
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Graduate Wave Speed & Frequency: Can Bob Tell?
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Graduate Understanding Lorentz Factor: Proving and Explaining Its Invariance
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Graduate Dimension of the stress energy tensor
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Graduate What is the value addition of GR?
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Graduate Photon Experiencing Infinity Over Time: A Relativity Question
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Undergrad Bending Space: Unraveling the Mystery
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Graduate Telescope Images: Light Deflection & Alien Observation
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Graduate How Does Light Behave Inside a Black Hole?
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High School Is time an illusion? Is it real to everyone? Please help
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Graduate Vary Metric w/ Respect to Veirbein: How To?
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Graduate General metric and flat metric
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