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Complete Definition of "light cone"

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en-noun|sg=light cone
Image:World_line.png|125px|right|thumb|A [[worldline through a light cone in 2D space plus a time dimension.]]

  1. context|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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