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Undergrad Deriving the displacement of an object
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Graduate Mastering GTR to Tackling Problems on Curved Space
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Graduate Does the Speed of Light Remain Constant in All Scenarios?
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Graduate Gravitational Time Dilation and Age of Astronaut
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High School Understanding Spacetime Curvature: Explained
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Game to help see visual effects of SR
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Graduate Time dialation effect on observed speed of light
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Graduate Inside event horizon, space and time are reversed. How, precisely ?
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Graduate Is the B-theory of Time Presupposed by Relativity?
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Graduate Time dilation measurement and events
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Graduate Poking someone falling into a black hole with a stick
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Graduate Can non-compact 4-dimensional spacetimes have a global tetrad?
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Graduate Exotic stress-energy tensor and causality
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Graduate Gravity and time and space translation asymmetry
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Graduate Variation of the Einstein-Hilbert action in noncoordinate basis
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Undergrad Is gravity's speed really the speed of light?
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Graduate Need help with a special relativity problem
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Graduate Time and General Relativity help?
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Graduate Why does light have a finite speed?
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Graduate What is one way speed of light is about? Why is it said undefined?
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Graduate How Does Fermi-Walker Transport Behave in Rotating Space-Times?
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Graduate Is the Metric in Spherical Coordinates Truly Flat?
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Graduate Problem analyzing rod-slot 2-D Lorentz contraction paradox
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Graduate Inaccuracy in the speed of light
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Graduate Current 3-form, current density, current vector, etc.
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Graduate Train Stopping Time: Different Observers, Different Times?
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Graduate Can any pair of spacelike events be simultaneous?
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Undergrad Question about gravity's effect on moving bodies
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Graduate Why is theory of Gravity and QM incompatible?
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Graduate Does the relativity of simultaneity exist 'at a distance'?
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Undergrad How did Einstein come to the Conclusion of Spacetime?
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Graduate An Apparent Contradiction in General Relativity?
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Graduate From local symmetry to General Relativity
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Graduate Map Taking Proper Time to Euclidean Length
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Graduate Minkowski Metric: Exploring Components and Deriving in 4D Coordinates
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Graduate Are Solutions to GR Field Equations Chaotic?
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Undergrad Question about gravitational attraction
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Graduate Bianchi IX Models: Cosmology Calculations & Quantum Field Theory
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Graduate How Do Equations Demonstrate Time Dilation Near Black Holes?
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Graduate Affine connection transformation
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Graduate C as the speed of light and the speed of sound in Michelson-Morley.
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Graduate Speed of a mass near black hole
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Graduate Superluminal (Tachyon) Transformations
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Graduate What Are the Theories Behind the Cause of Inertia?
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Graduate Does relativity affect velocity dependent events?
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Graduate Speed of light in non inertial conventions
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Graduate Manipulating Tensor Expressions to Derive the Poincare Algebra
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Graduate Simple (?) special relativity question
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Graduate What is the difference between Lorentz transformations and proper time
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Graduate Special relativity effects in general relativity
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Graduate Question about Riemann and Ricci Curvature Tensors
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Graduate MTW definition of differential froms made rigorous
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Graduate Index gymnastics of electromagnetism quantities
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Graduate Derivation of relativistic momentum
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Graduate Solving the Twin Paradox with General Relativity
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Graduate 3-d versus 4-d spacetime curvature
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Graduate Newtonian gravity and Special Relativity
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Graduate Cristoffel Symbol of spherical coordinates
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Graduate Relative velocities of particles and photons
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Graduate What is the relationship between the expanding universe and the speed of light?
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Graduate Measurement of relativistic effects from a non-inertial frame
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Graduate Metric Tensor in Spherical Coordinates
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Graduate Could time and space behave differently inside a supermassive hollow sphere?
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Graduate What Are the Implications of the Bell Paradox on Accelerating Ships?
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Graduate Types" of Space-Time Curvature in GR
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Graduate Do Massless Objects Travel at the Speed of Light Relative to Each Other?
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Graduate Spin precession Killing fields
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Graduate Can black holes merge to create larger event horizons?
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Graduate Time dilation and curved space
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Graduate Mass and thermodynamics in relativity
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Graduate The Mystery of Thomas Precession in Weinberg's Book
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Graduate Universal Law Idea: Impermanence & Relativity
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Graduate How is the S^3 metric defined by a unit vector and coordinate changes?
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Undergrad Mass/Energy in special relativity
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Graduate Special relativity and gravitation
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Graduate Is a gravity transformer possible?
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Graduate Could SR not be built from only one postulate?
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Graduate Change of Determinant of Metric Under Var Change
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Graduate Is the Hawking Mass Stable in Supergravity Theories?
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Graduate Need Deflection of Light Clarification
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Graduate Muons: Why time dilation takes precedence?
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Graduate Time Dilation of Charged Particle "p
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Graduate Moving objects in Stationary and Static Spacetimes
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Graduate Maximum possible gravitational time speed-up in the universe?
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Graduate Why Does Applying a Second Derivative to an Antisymmetric Tensor Yield Zero?
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Graduate Speed of 2 photons traveling in opposite directions
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Graduate Understanding Photons: The Role of Energy and Momentum in their Existence
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Graduate Is the speed of light truly constant in all directions?
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Graduate Parity of stress tensor versus stress-energy tensor
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Graduate Does born rigidity mean elongation of a body?
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Undergrad What is the Lorentz Transformation Equation and its Use in Relativity?
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Undergrad How Does Speed and Gravity Affect Time Dilation?
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Graduate Can Tensor Products Define (M,N) Tensors?
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Graduate Constructing an artificial blackhole
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Graduate Lorentz transformation And Einstein's Laws.
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Graduate Confusing points in relativistic dynamics
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Graduate Are Wormholes Physically Possible in Our Universe?
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Graduate Light & Gravity: Does Light Bend Spacetime?
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Graduate How is the speed of light being measured?
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Graduate Alcubierre / GR Warp drive and Entering/Exiting a Light Cone
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