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Graduate How Do Black Holes Exert Gravitational Influence Beyond Their Event Horizon?
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Graduate Observers in circular orbit-Schwarzschild space-time
- WannabeNewton
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Undergrad How does a change of reference frame affect mechanics problems?
- adnane.Physics
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Graduate Is the space-like distance to a black holes event horizon infinite?
- mrspeedybob
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Graduate Locally Maximally Symmetric Spacetimes
- HomerSimpson
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Graduate Relativistic transverse doppler shift
- fulis
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Graduate Black Hole and Electric Charge
- Philosophaie
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Graduate Why does light move backward relative to Earth when the spacecraft accelerates?
- aleemudasir
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Graduate Is light pulled toward a black hole blueshifted?
- Superposed_Cat
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Graduate Explanation of EM-fields using SR
- A.T.
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Undergrad Space and the velocity of light
- keepit
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Undergrad Special relativity and time dilation
- DanPease
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Graduate Spacetime diagram drawing problem
- Trojan666ru
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Graduate Causality and FLT a time reference consideration
- jacob_sallgood
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Graduate This is a thought experiment in relativity, can you try to solve this
- Trojan666ru
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Graduate Gravitation as varying density of a space-propertime manifold?
- bcrelling
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Graduate Does relativistic doppler shift change photon energy or wavelength?
- skate_nerd
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Graduate Index notation of matrix tranpose
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Undergrad Are the transformations just observed ones or real ones?
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Graduate Is it impossible to separate a distance of 1light hour in space?
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Graduate Could the speed of light be one of the slowest things in the universe?
- Baewrt Ardoj
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Graduate What is the value of Q in the equation for the Kerr-Newman Metric Tensor?
- Philosophaie
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Graduate Universe expansion speed vs gravitational waves speed
- Mectaresh
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Graduate Time Paradox: Calculating Time Dilation for Objects Moving at 90% Speed of Light
- Trojan666ru
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Undergrad Does space (distance) between two bodies contract according to SR?
- Trojan666ru
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Graduate Smaller but Larger? Understand Warped Physics in Higher Dimensions
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Graduate So the freely falling rock will follow a single geodesic on its way to Earth.
- AriAstronomer
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Graduate Transfer of Energy through Forces like gravity
- Hyrum
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Undergrad What If the Speed of Light Were Just 1000 km/h?
- Numeriprimi
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Graduate Hamiltonian for a free particle (Special relativity)
- fa2209
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Did Einstein Discover the Theory of Relativity
- nauj
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Graduate Derivation of relativistic E_kin
- tomwilliam2
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Graduate Can gravity ever be a repulsive force?
- SteveDC
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Graduate Is it possible for a wormhole to have zero spacetime curvature?
- kochanskij
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Graduate Figuring out Clock Desynchronization
- kratsg
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Graduate Does light experience relativistic effects?
- Fiziqs
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Graduate Can Time Flow Even Though Space Doesn't?
- Deepak K Kapur
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Graduate Is Gravity Merely a Byproduct of Electromagnetic Forces?
- CDooli
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Graduate Using tensors and indicial notation
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Graduate Double slit experiment on a moving train
- m_robertson
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Graduate Why does space expand faster than light in relativity?
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Graduate Newtons 2nd Law corrected for Relativity
- SSGD
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Undergrad How does relative velocity affect the passage of time for objects?
- questionator89
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Graduate Metric Tensor of the Reissner–Nordström Metric
- Philosophaie
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Undergrad How Einstein proved equation about speed
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Undergrad Does time travel to the future require light speed as a reference?
- bodhi
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Graduate Gravitational Waves: Slowed by Media?
- Khashishi
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Graduate Bell's spaceship paradox with observer accelerating toward stationary ships
- Trojan666ru
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Graduate Measuring Speed in the Universe: A Puzzling Concept
- davies65
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Graduate Michelson-Morley vs Tennis Balls
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Graduate Unequal accelerations among comoving objects
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Graduate Foucault's pendulum shows absolute motion?
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Graduate Can We Slow Down an Object's Inertia to See It Age Faster Than Us?
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Graduate So, is light truly relative, or is its speed constant regardless of movement?
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Graduate Wald on homogeneous cosmology: why two positive pressures not two negative
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High School Albert Einstein Proves Equations: Maths or Observation?
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Graduate This paper looks a bit sketchy.
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Undergrad Does E=mc^2 apply to the proton
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Undergrad General relativity lectures by leonard susskind on youtube
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Graduate Is the Lightyear Pole Paradox a Violation of Physics?
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Graduate Gradual acceleration with converging series (a thought experiment)
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Graduate What Defines a Static Spacetime and Does it Depend on the Coordinate System?
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Graduate How do relativity paradoxes resolve in three scenarios?
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Graduate Mass of a contracting charged shell and equilibrium stability
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Undergrad Things that happens simultaneously
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Graduate How Do Lorentz Transformations Relate Time-like Four-Momenta in SO^{+}(1,3)?
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Graduate Relative Entanglement Nightmare
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Graduate Understanding Minkowski Space Compactification
- ritzo
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Graduate How to define uniformly ticking clock defined in GR?
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Undergrad Special relativity using inertial frame moving at 1/2u
- ChemicalCarl
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Undergrad How does gravity distort time?
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Graduate Can Exotic Matter Escape the Gravitational Pull of a Black Hole?
- Silvertail
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Graduate Why proper distance cannot be defined by setting dx^0=0 in GR
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High School Why does time slow when you travel at high speeds?
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Graduate What is the Invariant Magnitude of 4-Acceleration?
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Graduate Wormhole proper radial distance
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Graduate Space time with no killing vector
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Graduate How exactly does FTL travel cause reverse time travel?
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Graduate Going Faster Than Light: What Happens When We Can't Slow Down?
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Undergrad Light catching up to an object moving at half light speed
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Graduate Flat sheet-like structure approaching a massive object
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Graduate The factor of 1/2 in the Einstein-Hilbert action
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Graduate Does gravity act on masses smaller than the Planck mass?
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Graduate Can the black and white holes combine?
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Graduate Is Spacetime Like a Fluid with Surface Tension?
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Undergrad Text(s) for Relativity for Poets course?
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Graduate Is Penrose's Twistor Theory Worth the Effort for Understanding Physics?
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Graduate Is Lorentz Transformation an Application of Pythagoras's Theorem?
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Graduate Paradox within relativity of simultaneity
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Graduate Why is the derivative of solid angle expressed as dvx dvy in Lightmann et al.?
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Graduate Quantum Entanglement Information.
- howabout1337
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Graduate Object with *multiple* velocities nearing the speed of light-effect?
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Graduate Neutrinos - what is their mass when they travel so close c?
- keepit
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Graduate What equations describe black holes and the event horizon?
- AdrianHudson
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Graduate Contemporary Physics: Preserving Einstein's Brilliance
- alvin51015
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Graduate How Can Light Be Affected by Black Holes Despite Having No Mass?
- Gank
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Graduate Herglotz-Noether theorem understanding
- yuiop
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Graduate Is the Bell's Spaceship Paradox a Result of Relativity of Simultaneity?
- Trojan666ru
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Graduate What factors affect the reaction time of a long bar?
- Magna Visus
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Graduate Can the Constant plane hypothesis be applied to accelerating frames?
- yuiop
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