light cone

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  1. 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.
    — This gives the future light cone of the event. Similarly, you can define the past light cone—as the history of a spherical shell of light converging in on the event. All these spatial spheres, past and future, represent cross-sections through the space–time light cone, […]
  2. A (realized or imagined) data visualization of possible sets of future outcomes that is analogous to such a cone. broadly,figuratively
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see light, cone.

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light cones plural lightcone alternative
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