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- Welcome! to sci.physics.relativity
- ==================================
-
- This newsgroup is the place to discuss and ask questions on the
- theory of relativity. It is an open forum where you can talk
- about anything you like so long as it related to relativity and
- physics.
-
- Please note that cross-posting from sci.physics.relativity
- to other sci. groups (except possibly alt.sci.physics.new-theories)
- is strongly discouraged. If you respond to a message which
- is cross-posted to irrelevant groups you should consider
- removing them from the newsgroup line as you post, or directing
- followups to a reduced list of groups.
-
- There is a FAQ for this group which is made up from articles
- previously in the Physics FAQ to which it remains attached.
- It is available on the web at these sites.
-
- USA:
- http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/relativity.html
- http://www.public.iastate.edu/~physics/sci.physics/faq/relativity.html
- http://www-hpcc.astro.washington.edu/mirrors/physicsfaq/relativity.html
- http://www.weburbia.com/physics/relativity.html
- http://relativityfaq.home.ml.org/
- UK:
- http://www.weburbia.demon.co.uk/physics/relativity.html
- Netherlands:
- http://www.dra.nl/~antoine/physics/relativity.html
- Australia:
- http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/physoc/physics_faq/relativity.html
- Taiwan:
- http://hep3.phys.sinica.edu.tw/physics-faq/relativity.html
- http://www.phy.ncku.edu.tw/mirrors/physicsfaq/relativity.html
-
- The editor of the Relativity FAQ is Philip Gibbs: pg@pobox.com
-
- The unmoderated newsgroup sci.physics.relativity was created
- in September 1996 with the following charter:
-
- CHARTER: sci.physics.relativity
-
- Appropriate postings would include, but not be limited to:
-
- 1. Queries regarding special and general relativity
- 2. How to resolve relativity paradoxes
- 3. Black holes, wormholes and singularities
- 4. Big Bang and other cosmological models of space-time
- 5. Equivalence of mass and energy
- 6. The speed of light and gravity
- 7. Time dilation, space contraction, redshifts
- 8. Causality, and faster than light travel
- 9. The large and small scale structure of space-time
- 10. Discussion of the scope and validity of relativity
- 11. Viability of alternative theories to relativity
- 12. Experimental tests of Relativity
- 13. Gravitational waves
- 14. Theories and concepts which take us beyond relativity
-
- The news group sci.physics.relativity will be open to
- discussion on all levels. It will accept talk about
- alternative theories and other controversial discussions
- about relativity which would be outside the charter of
- most other sci newsgroups, as well as more mainstream
- discussion on physics as described by Einstein's theory
- of relativity and modern research to develop more unified
- theories combining relativity and quantum mechanics. This
- reflects the kind of threads which are now popular in usenet
- on the subject of relativity.
-
- The Physics FAQ will be split and extended to create a new
- relativity FAQ for this group. The FAQ introduction will
- advise caution against cross-posting to other groups.
-
- END CHARTER.
-