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Penrose Diagram

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velocity/c
0.5
initial value for x
0
initial value for t
0
spacelike section
timelike future
timelike past
This shows a Penrose diagram, which is a conformal compactification of 2D Minkowski space. The blue line is a geodetic line starting from the initial point with the chosen velocity.

Details

The coordinate lines are the equally distant Cartesian coordinate lines from Minkowski space; the distance between them is 0.5 units. Note that the shape of the lightlike geodetics is not affected by the conformal map.

External Links

Permanent Citation

Christoph Meyer
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​"Penrose Diagram"​
​http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/PenroseDiagram/​
​Wolfram Demonstrations Project​
​Published: March 7, 2011
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