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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.


	Contributed by: Christoph Meyer

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.

Compactification (Wolfram MathWorld)

Conformal Mapping (Wolfram MathWorld)

Minkowski Space (Wolfram MathWorld)

"Penrose Diagram" from The Wolfram Demonstrations Project
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/PenroseDiagram/

Contributed by: Christoph Meyer

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