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