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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 Deriving relativistic momentum p = γmv in one dimension

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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 Checking my derived metric tensor for 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?

  • Juan Largo
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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

  • DrewD
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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?

  • ChrisVer
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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

  • Jeffrey Yang
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Graduate Are Wormholes Physically Possible in Our Universe?

  • ChrisVer
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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

  • MattRob
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Graduate Feasible way to go the speed of light?

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Graduate Could superman fit his hand around a Basketball?

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Graduate Special relativity time dilation question

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Graduate 13 parameters for agreement with observations

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Graduate Time Travel at Light Speed: How Can Earth Be in Future?

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Graduate Question about an Alcubierre warp drive's negative energy requirement

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Graduate What is the nature of gravity?

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Graduate Rotation and circular motion under different simultaneity conventions

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Graduate Perception and calculating when events happened

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High School Plane Flying East-West: Time Difference Explained

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Graduate Is the speed of light constant with time?

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Undergrad Why does gravity not create resistance?

  • sharnrock
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Graduate Length contraction of rotating wheel

  • Erland
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Graduate A question about measuring time via the speed of light

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Graduate Understand Degeneracy of Metric at Schwarzschild Singularity

  • ChrisVer
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Graduate Is "length contraction" an illusion?

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Graduate Zeroth component of Spin 4-Vector

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Graduate Why covariant derivatives of covariant tensors have a minus sign

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Graduate Information Faster Than Light - Thought Experiment

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Graduate Can information truly be teleported using quantum entanglement?

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Graduate The Relativistic Force-Norm and the Proof of E=mc2

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Graduate Velocity of light and it's frame of reference.

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Graduate Verification of c isotropy vs c in Einstein synchronization

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Graduate Drawing lines through spacetime warped by the mass of the earth

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Graduate How is it possible for binary stars to not show changes in aberration angles?

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Graduate Laying a rope into a black hole very fast

  • jartsa
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Graduate Kinematic time dilation in black holes

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Graduate Can Geodesic Deviation in Spacetime Incorporate Non-Causal Relationships?

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Undergrad How to tell the difference between acceleration and gravity

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Undergrad Is it possible to tell whether ship is moving or not?

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Graduate I'm sorry, I'm not sure what your question is. Could you please clarify?

  • exmarine
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Graduate Resolving Symmetric Movement Paradox w/ Respect to Stationary Observer

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Undergrad Biking at near the speed of light

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Graduate Is time present in a black hole?

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Graduate Why it is necessary to unite Gravity and other forces

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