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Undergrad Thought experiment of relativity
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High School Understanding the Twin Paradox: A Simple Explanation
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Graduate Find Solutions to Black Hole Questions
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Graduate Can Acceleration and Gravity Equally Affect Time Dilation?
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Graduate Can We Harness Energy from Light to Power Space Travel?
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Graduate The Structure of Galilean Space
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Undergrad Gravitational Constant (Big G I think)
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Graduate Simplifying Equation (14) from Zee's Einstein Gravity for PhD Students
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Graduate What Direction is Light Observed From a Moving Source.
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Graduate Schwarzenchild vs Minkowski: 4-Space & EigenValues
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Graduate Deriving formula ∆t=Lv/c^2 using special relativity
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Graduate How can a particle coming from infinity get on bound orbit around BH?
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Graduate Particles traveling back in time
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High School Where Are the Boundaries of the Universe and How Can We Measure Them?
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Graduate Moving faster than light in Schwarzshield radius
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Graduate Does an explicit list of 20 independent compenents of Riemman exist?
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Graduate Action & Reaction: Equal Opposites
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Graduate Space and Earth's (and other planet's) movement through it
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Graduate Checking if Schwarzschild Space-Time is Locally Minkowskian
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Graduate The Physics of Length Contraction of physical objects and distances
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Graduate Calculating M from Charge & Angular Momentum in Black Hole
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Undergrad Lorentz transform low velocity limit
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Graduate Exactly Why C is impossible for Massive Objects?
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Graduate Photon mass - clarification request
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Graduate Understanding Acceleration and Geodesics in Curved Spacetime
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Graduate Is the Modified Lagrangian Formula Correct in Ray D Inverno Problem 11.5?
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Graduate Connected Space-Times: Why is it Assumed in General Relativity?
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Undergrad What are the accepted theories for the source of gravity?
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Graduate Why Is General Relativity Nonlinear Compared to Other Fundamental Equations?
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Graduate How Does Special Relativity Explain Particle Attraction?
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Graduate Seeing the entire future of the Universe
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Graduate (Almost) Black Hole = Fast Space Ship?
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Graduate Total energy derivation: energy as a time component of a four-vector
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Undergrad How Does Time Dilation Affect Clocks at Different Speeds?
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Graduate Relativistic Energy Derivation math problem
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Graduate Recommended reading on Kaluza-Klein theories.
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Graduate What is the dielectric momentum density 4-vector?
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Graduate Time slowing down due to speed relative to the observer
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Graduate The consistency of the speed of light
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Graduate Lorentzian 2-Manifold Local Conformal Flatness: Explained
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Graduate Do I arrive before a light-speed train if I jump off the front?
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High School Motion to Rest: What Does the Universe Agree On?
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Graduate Math Questions in Lorentzgroup: Covariance/Contravariance Explained
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Graduate A question on a tweek of the Twin Paradox
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High School Why Can't I See the Earth Rotating Below Me?
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Graduate Who first studied variable speed of light? - Einstein
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Graduate Speed of Light: Universe's Expansion After Big Bang
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Graduate What does it mean: transforms like a vector
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Graduate Rank-2 tensor: multiple definitions
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Graduate Does gravity affect to wavelengths?
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Graduate The importance of the relative movement
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Graduate Weyl tensor in 2 dimensions- confused
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Graduate Understanding the Passage of Objects through the Event Horizon of a Black Hole
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Graduate Relativity and matter by Pauli
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Graduate Applying Forces to Particles: Questions Answered
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Undergrad Caught Between Two Gravitational Fields
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Graduate Is General Relativity Dependent on the Existence of a Manifold?
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Graduate Birkhoff's Theorem: Exterior Solution to Einstein's Field Equations
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Graduate Why Does Space/Time Not Cause Friction?
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Graduate When Clocks Meet: Investigating Time in Einstein's Special Relativity
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Graduate Exercise 2.5 in Misner, Thorne and Wheeler
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Graduate Pushing with a lorentz contracting stick
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Graduate Is the Sun invisible at relativistic speeds? Part II
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Graduate Quick question, Komar integral derivation in Wald
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Undergrad Speed of Gravity: 299792458 m/s?
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Graduate Relativity in a Rotating Space Station
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Graduate Black holes , gravity upper limit
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Graduate Recommendaton for Clarifying Special Relativity
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Graduate Formulating Position Vector with f(t)
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Graduate Can Observers See the Future in Relativity?
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Graduate Finding the 4x4 Cofactor of a Covariant Metric Tensor g_{ik}
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Graduate Maxwell's Equations in Curved Space-time
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Graduate Reconciling APOD BH Videos w/ Physics Forums Discussion
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Graduate Classification of Gravitational Theories
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Graduate Why do objects fall through curvature of spacetime?
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Graduate Is a Topological Action Defined by the Underlying Space?
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Graduate Singularity Mechanics? Blackhole Spin
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Graduate The reason why you can't accelerate to light speed
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High School Terminology of Convert: What's the Right Term?
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Graduate Understanding Mass in Relativity Theory: Definitions and Conflicting Views
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Graduate Photon energy changing due to Dopplershift?
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Graduate Measuring velocity in empty space
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Graduate Distances between planet and observer near BH
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Graduate Relativity of simultaneity objections
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Graduate How could a photon travel at lightspeed if it has mass?
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Graduate Accelerating Expansion of Space-Time and Implications for Time Itself
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High School Space Time Explained: Physics & E=mc^2
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Graduate Objects accellerating due to each other's gravity
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Graduate Does Time Really Flow Backwards?
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Graduate Penrose Diagrams - Introduction
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Undergrad Observer S' on a rocket vs an observer S on Earth
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Graduate Need flat spacetime to define mass and spin?
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Graduate Confused about length contraction
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Graduate Time & Speed of Photon: Questions Answered
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Undergrad Does Energy Gravitate? A Check of Understanding
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Graduate Does a photon experience time when slowed down by gravity?
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Graduate Condition for close timelike curve?
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Graduate Mass & Velocity: Gaining Momentum with Speed
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Graduate Seeking clarification of time dilation
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Graduate Why we won't notice anything special when crossing the horizon?
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