Recent questions in Special Relativity

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Do you know Satellites need to recalibrate their clocks every 24 hours because they lose time due to gravitational force and time dilation?

asked Feb 12, 2023 in Special Relativity by SykesIT

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Why does an electric field move with a constant speed and not at the speed of light?

asked Feb 12, 2023 in Special Relativity by IrS

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How would time dilation be perceived by a human being?

asked Feb 12, 2023 in Special Relativity by Lyn 1

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What is the physical significance of the Lorentz transformation?

asked Feb 12, 2023 in Special Relativity by davnav

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Can beta particles travel faster than light?

asked Feb 12, 2023 in Special Relativity by Daniel1951

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What would happen if a space rock the size of a fist hit the Earth at the speed of light?

asked Feb 12, 2023 in Special Relativity by Adamfya

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Does gravitational time dilation occur during free fall? Why or why not?

asked Feb 12, 2023 in Special Relativity by Jsosal

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Can a black hole move faster than light? If a black hole is moving faster than the speed of light, what happens to it as space continues to expand around it at super-luminal speeds?

asked Feb 12, 2023 in Special Relativity by screwfix.peter

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What we see is the present. What we see are lights and their reflections. What do we see if we travel faster than light, the future or nothing?

asked Feb 11, 2023 in Special Relativity by fiveduck

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Why can't we travel faster than light, in terms of reasonable logic (not a theory or postulate)?

asked Feb 11, 2023 in Special Relativity by DAG1983

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What are the implications of breaking the speed of light? Are there any theories about breaking the speed of light?

asked Feb 11, 2023 in Special Relativity by Scribbler

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How far would you have gone if you had been travelling at the speed of light since you were born?

asked Feb 11, 2023 in Special Relativity by Nigel Butler

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Based on Einstein's spacetime concept, it has been claimed that nothing can travel faster than light. Is this really a plausible conclusion, or is it mostly based on hypotheses?

asked Feb 11, 2023 in Special Relativity by CelestialAlchemy

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Does mass have energy?

asked Feb 11, 2023 in Special Relativity by MidnightVortex

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Are there loop holes in string theory other than warp drive and wormholes to travel faster than light? Please give me the list.

asked Feb 11, 2023 in Special Relativity by I-Man

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Are time dilation and length contraction related?

asked Feb 11, 2023 in Special Relativity by Facilitiesmanager

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In the muon experiment, it is said that the muon observes the atmosphere as length contracted. But the entire universe would be length contracted according to the muon! How is this possible? Are time dilation and length contraction illusions of SR?

asked Feb 11, 2023 in Special Relativity by EmberHarmony

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How does time dilation occur in space travel and what are its implications for astronauts?

asked Feb 11, 2023 in Special Relativity by imacboy

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Why would it be very impossible for a spacecraft to travel across the entire Solar System or even the entire Galaxy within just a single day, even unlikely at faster than the speed of light?

asked Feb 11, 2023 in Special Relativity by SolarisDreamer

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Theoretically, can we live to 200 in space due to gravitational time dilation?

asked Feb 10, 2023 in Special Relativity by Douglas Newman

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