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Graduate Can a single atom transmit push signals faster than light?
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Graduate Why don't energy and momentum conservation give the same v2 for photon absorption?
- azerbajdzan
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Graduate Solving Dimensional Analysis Problems in Stress Energy Momentum Tensor
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Graduate How Do Light Cones Differ in Accelerating vs. Decelerating Expansions?
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Graduate Does the event horizon bulge forward to meet incoming matter?
- cr7einstein
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Graduate Is this equation relevant to special relativity?
- Ryan Bruch
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Graduate Why satellite clocks need correction despite relativity of motion
- Ryan Bruch
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Graduate Educational paper and video, Bertozzi, "The Ultimate Speed"
- bcrowell
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Graduate Growing Black Hole Metric Approximation: 2MG/c^2
- stevendaryl
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Graduate Is Special Relativity Testable?
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Graduate Would the Sagnac effect occur for light beams sent around the equator?
- davek
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High School How does the spacetime curvature model of gravity actually work?
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Graduate Light-cone simultaneity vs Einstein simultaneity in SR
- Erland
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Undergrad Does acceleration change according to inertial frame of reference?
- David Carroll
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High School Rest Mass Definition: What is E=MC2?
- avito009
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Graduate Time Dilation and Muon Energy vs. height (Muon Experiment)
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Graduate Gravitational redshift with time dilation?
- EdisT
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Undergrad Query regarding Special Relativity
- aditya ver.2.0
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Graduate Relativistic Doppler Color Shift of White Light from Sun
- TJonline
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Graduate Photon Elapsed Time Equation: Calculating 24hrs
- Doc Marino
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Graduate How do physicists interpret time and the arrow of time?
- ijdavis
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Graduate Speculation on the nature of collapsed stellar cores
- kwright
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Physics at its Finest: Simple, Definitive, Unambiguous, Conclusive
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Graduate Viewing a (giant) clock at relativistic speed
- TJonline
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Graduate Equivalence Principle in muon experiment?
- exmarine
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Graduate Orbits around a Schwarzschild/Kerr black hole
- FunWarrior
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Graduate Black hole formation with golf balls in GR
- rjbeery
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Graduate Deriving Møller's Relativistic Minimum Radius for Rotating Bodies
- michael879
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Graduate Maximum magnetic field from moving charge
- KeeperOfKeys
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Graduate Update: Negation of the Grandfather Paradox
- jacirez
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Graduate Matter breaking the speed of light? [Nope]
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Graduate Time Lapse Simulations: Traveling Through Space at Light Speed
- george14215
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Graduate Understand Mass-Energy Equivalence: Einstein's Thought Exp.
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Undergrad Can anything travel faster than light according to physics laws?
- Anoop Koushik
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Graduate Covariant derivative of covector
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Graduate What is the relationship between classical and relativistic Doppler formulas?
- Albertgauss
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Graduate Lorentz-Invariant Scalar Products
- Sunnyocean
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Graduate Observational Evidence of Black Holes
- stevendaryl
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Graduate Gravitational Waves: Lone Body in Universe
- anubodh
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Graduate How Do You Calculate the Magnitude of a 4-Vector?
- Jonsson
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Graduate Deriving Metric $$g_{ij}$$ w/ Respect to Time t
- PhyAmateur
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Graduate Why isn't the light signal from a falling spaceship Doppler shifted?
- sweetdreams12
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Graduate Gravitational Fields Created by EM Waves: Reference Frame?
- Ookke
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Graduate Light clock photon reflection time in moving frame
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Graduate Do space and time vibrate when objects accelerate?
- anubodh
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Graduate Does Relativity Allow for Non-Locality in the Universe?
- wittgenstein
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Graduate Special relativity and accelerated frames
- CKH
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Graduate Universe Age: Why Is There a Set Number?
- TheScienceOrca
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Graduate Questions about Traversable Wormhole Metric
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Graduate How does the expanding universe affect matter/energy
- TheScienceOrca
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Graduate Event-horizon from the blackhole metric
- Ravi Mohan
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Graduate [Special Relativity]Questions on Maxwell Equations' Derivation
- genxium
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Graduate Spacetime separation and dilation/contraction
- Dylan H
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Graduate Calculation of gravity near a black hole.
- avito009
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Graduate Aging Fastest: Does Moving Counter Universe Movement?
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Graduate Why light signals cannot reach observers at constant Rindler coordinate ω
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Graduate Does a mirror moving away reorder laser pulses reflected back?
- David Cate
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Graduate Lorentz transformation independence of axis orthogonal to velocity
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Graduate Interpreting the x' axis angle in Minkowski diagrams
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Graduate Why does τ ≈ c in Martin & Shaw problem 3.5?
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Graduate Transpose Inverse Property (Dual Vectors)
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Graduate The speed composition vs the light aberration in SR
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Graduate How Does the Metric Tensor Connect Vectors and Their Duals in Vector Spaces?
- ChrisVer
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Graduate Spec-rel, two ships accelerate away from each other
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Graduate Four Momentum in General Relativity
- MrBillyShears
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Graduate How much does rotation and heat increase a neutron star's gravitational field?
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Graduate (length contraction)the distance travel or the object length shorter?
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Graduate Black Holes: Accretion Disks /Increase/ Angular Momentum?
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Graduate Lorentz contraction and Time dilation (Special relativity)
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Graduate Is There Gravity Between Two Photons?
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Graduate Can a pre-existing field explain Mach's principle without faster-than-light effects?
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Graduate Can Kerr-Newman Geodesics Be Separated in Hamilton-Jacobi Equation with Charge?
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Graduate Is theory of relativity really relative ?
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Graduate Lorentz transformations and Minkowski metric
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Graduate Why does the traveling twin age slower in the twin paradox?
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Graduate Lorentz invariance of Klein-Gordon Lagrangian
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Undergrad Einstein's Train Thought Experiment
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Graduate If time time dilation is infinite at v=c, then time stands still only
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Graduate Riemann Curvature Tensor Symmetries Proof
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Graduate Why does space expand slower with greater curvature in the Friedmann equation?
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Undergrad Relative Velocity Experiment - A Matter of Discussion
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Graduate Why can't cylindrically or spherically symmetric bodies produce gravitational waves?
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Graduate How does the twin paradox work if both observers see the other's clock slow?
- manimaran1605
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Graduate Can n-spheres have temporal components in their metric tensor?
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Graduate Temporal components in metric tensors
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Undergrad Why Is Gravity Considered a Fundamental Force in Physics?
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Graduate Can Einstein's Equations be Applied to a Closed Universe?
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Undergrad The Doppler Effect: A Train Approaching a Stationary Observer
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Graduate How to tell if a particle trajectory is rectilinear and velocity positive
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Graduate The Principle of Invariant Light Speed
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Graduate Curvature of Light Paths Near a Mass
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Graduate Does gravity gravitate in general relativity?
- PeterDonis
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Graduate Bending of Light due to Gravity
- avito009
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Graduate Why Can Light Only Travel at the Speed of Light?
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Graduate Does a universal present moment exist in relativity?
- johniha
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Graduate Time Dilatation: The Twins Paradox
- tonyxon22
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Graduate What is Active Curvature Mass?
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Graduate Has relativistic mass gone out of fashion?
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Graduate What is the metric tensor of the 4-sphere?
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Graduate Can 4D Spacetime be Embedded Isometrically in Fewer than 90 Dimensions?
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