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Eric Smith

Canada

I have a Ph.D. in Mathematics. When it comes to physics though I'm more of an enthusiastic amateur than anything else, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

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Why don't we put satellites into an orbit where there is (almost) no time dilation/contraction compared to Earth's surface?
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What speed shall I go to make my day longer?
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Would touching a black hole of a small mass (the mass of an apple) cause you to spiral in and get dead?
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According to general relativity planets and Sun bend the spacetime (explaining gravity), but does this hold true for smaller objects?
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Why doesn't Hawking radiation add to the mass of a black hole just as much as it subtracts from it?
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What are the real-life applications of General Relativity?
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Can relativistic mass actually change gravitational pull?
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Why aren't all quarks clumped together in one giant hadron?
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Does a volume stay constant when freely falling?
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How can the universe possess rotational symmetry yet have no center?
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What is the "true" distance an object travels based on relative speeds?
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Where does all the energy in black holes go?
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Are the unification of spacetime and the warping of space in general relativity real, or mathematical convenience?
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Where does gravity come from?
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Is it possible for rockets to exist in a world that is only in the early stages of developing jet aircraft?
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How does the energy mass equivalence not contradict conservation of energy?
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How was this warp bubble generated?
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Are there any yet unresolved SR paradoxes?
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Uncertainty in Speed of Light
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Gravity is not a force - how does "accelerating up" work for the entire earth?
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How should this argument (about the non-validity of Special Relativity) be interpreted?
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What is the true nature of gravity?
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Time dilation effects at the center of a binary black hole system
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Are relative simultaneity and absolute simultaneity equally consistent with empirical observation?
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Why/When can we separate spacetime into space and time?
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Gravitons and general relativity
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Do you really die if spaghettified by a black hole?
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Is there any data/experiment that validates SR in macroscopic objects?
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I have refuted virtually all of Special Relativity. What mainstream parts remain?
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How is the relative speed of two (or more) objects determined (distributed) in the theoretical context of special relativity?
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