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Graduate Can something with zero rest mass (photon) curve spacetime?
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Graduate Moving Masses & Doppler Shifts in Flat Space-Time
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Graduate What is the Form of Riemann Tensor in 3D?
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Graduate Notation for time in a relativistic graph
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Graduate Wald Lemma 8.1.1-help with proof
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Graduate Difference between black hole solutions and wormhole solutions
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Graduate Black Holes & Time: A Collision of Forces
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Undergrad Special relativity and stars' masses
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Graduate Riemann Curvature Scalar Differs in Landau & MTW
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Graduate Questions on Weinberg Cosmology Book
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Graduate Lorentz transformation derivation. What exactly is wrong?
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Graduate Sending information faster than speed of light?
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Undergrad *If* the ISS is freely falling, doesn't that mean it's following
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Graduate Does light exist outside of time ?
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Graduate Time travel + conservation laws
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Undergrad Group velocity and phase velocity of a matter wave
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High School Listening to the Feynman tapes on youtube, and I have a question.
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Undergrad Confusion with Michelson-Morley Experiment
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Undergrad Two questions about Special Relativity
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Graduate More on gravitational time dilation and escape velocity.
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Undergrad Photons Affected by Pseudo Forces | Hyperspace by Michio Kaku
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FAC Suggestion for Clarifying SR Theory
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Graduate Is Schwarzschild metric more intuitive?
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Graduate Change in position/t greater than speed of light?
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Graduate Is LET an Interpretation of SR?
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Graduate Mach's principle, GR and the nature of space
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Graduate Lamp color before and after a phase of acceleration
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Graduate Relative velocity and speed of light
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Graduate Gravitational time dilation and escape velocity
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Graduate Why is there a Minus in Spacetime Interval Formula?
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Graduate Relativistic Magnetic Field of a moving charge
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Undergrad What is a joule, when you calculate relativistic energy?
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Graduate How Does the Affine Connection Contract in General Relativity?
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Graduate Question about instantaneous travel of information on a solid
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Graduate Complex Space Time: Interpret Metric Tensor gmn
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Graduate Circular Orbit Four-Velocity and Schwarzschild Metric
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Graduate What Happens to Matter Inside a Black Hole's Infinite Density?
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Graduate Super-radiance of electromagnetic waves
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Graduate Schwarzchild Radius: By definition must be dependent on distance.
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Graduate Synchronous Coordinates transformation
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Graduate Bell's Spaceship Paradox and Length Contraction
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Graduate Determine Motion of Two Planes in Deep Space
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Graduate When a black hole is formed officially?
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Graduate Distinguishing spacelike and timelike events
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Graduate Why Does Integrating Relativistic Kinetic Energy Lead to Different Results?
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Graduate Radius of a photon's circular orbit around a mass
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Graduate Understanding Relativity: Chat with a Physics Professor Online for Clarity
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Graduate Symmetrically Opposite Solution to Special Relativity
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Where can I find english version of Ann. Soc. scient bruxelles A47, 49(1927)
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Graduate Is the Sun invisible at relativistic speeds?
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Graduate Relativity with Charged Particles & Fluid Approx.
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Graduate Error in Carroll's Lecture Notes on General Relativity pg. 186
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Graduate Photon Arrival Rate: Doppler Effect Explained
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Undergrad Analysis of Doppler Effect - Seeking Validation/Criticism
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Graduate Are there simultaneous moments?
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Graduate Canonical Momenta Action Electromagnetism
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Graduate Kruzkal Coordinates Inside Horizon: Defining u', v
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Graduate Questions concerning GPS Navigation
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Undergrad Does time effect slowed light or not?
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Graduate Laws of Physics: Same Everywhere?
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Graduate Time dilation in gravitational field
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Can Closed Timelike Curves Make Time Travel Possible?
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Graduate Does Length Contraction Occur in All Directions for a Speeding Object?
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Graduate General matrix representation of lorentz boost
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Graduate Two ships again [lets beat that dead horse]
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Undergrad Understanding Length Contraction in Relativity: Explained and Analyzed
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Graduate Equation of state of photon gas
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Graduate Ladder Paradox: Understanding the Contradictory Length Contraction Phenomenon
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Graduate Faster than speed of light = time travel ?
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Graduate Michaelson-Morley expt. problem
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Graduate Do the Large Hadron Collider take earth's rotational speed?
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Graduate Center of Mass: Definition, 3D Calculation & Frame
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High School The Speed of Light: Explaining Theory & Experiments
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Graduate Calculating Relativity with Different Speeds: Vacuum or Medium?
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Graduate Is Widely Separated in Relativity About Space or Perception?
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Graduate How is the effective Lagrangian for the Graviton coupling to matter derived?
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Graduate Magnetic field relativistic effect
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High School Speed of photons and its effect on us
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Graduate Spherical symmetric collapse of pressureless dust
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Graduate The light-cone and light-cone variables
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Undergrad Perceiving light/lighspeed (question)
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Graduate Feynman's vs wiki's relativistic resultant
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Graduate Photons live in a singularity?
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Graduate Proper time of a 'half-moving object'
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Graduate Conservation of Relativistic energy and momentum
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Graduate Time dilation, reference frames
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Graduate Measuring Length with Oscillating Rods
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Graduate If light-speed is invariant,why RoS exist?
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Undergrad Time Dilation Explained: T=T(P)*γ Example
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Graduate Can we really ever accurately test SR time dilation?
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Graduate Confusion about Lorentz Transform
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Undergrad Good books on both Relativities
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Graduate Schwarzchild radial coordinate
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Graduate EFE Solutions: Kerr, Mass, Energy, Metric Tensor
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Graduate Equivalence Principle: Questions Explained
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Graduate Is There a Connection Between Movement Through Space-time and Aging?
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Graduate On Einstein´s theory of curved spacetime.
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Graduate Local flatness for non-freely falling observers?
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Graduate Time Dilation Problem: Help Solve Light Beam Issue
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Undergrad Time Dilation Equation: Clarifying Variables
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