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light_cone
light cone
See also: lightcone
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Noun
light cone (plural light cones)
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A worldline through a light cone in 2D space plus a time dimension.
- (physics): In special relativity, the pattern describing the temporal evolution of a flash of light in Minkowski spacetime. This is modeled in 3-space using the two horizontal axes as spatial dimensions, while the vertical axis is time.
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