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  2. Penrose diagram - Wikipedia

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    So, a Penrose diagram can be used as a concise illustration of spacetime regions that are accessible to observation. The diagonal boundary lines of a Penrose diagram correspond to the region called "null infinity", or to singularities where light rays must end. Thus, Penrose diagrams are also useful in the study of asymptotic properties of ...

  3. Null infinity - Wikipedia

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    The Penrose diagram for Minkowski spacetime. Radial position is on the horizontal axis and time is on the vertical axis. Null infinity is the diagonal boundary of the diagram, designated with script 'I'. The metric for a flat Minkowski spacetime in spherical coordinates is = + +.

  4. Eddington–Finkelstein coordinates - Wikipedia

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    Both are not diagonal (the hypersurfaces of constant "time" are not orthogonal to the hypersurfaces of constant r.) The latter have a flat spatial metric, while the former's spatial ("time" constant) hypersurfaces are null and have the same metric as that of a null cone in Minkowski space ( t = ± r {\displaystyle t=\pm r} in flat spacetime).

  5. Penrose tiling - Wikipedia

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    The original form of Penrose tiling used tiles of four different shapes, but this was later reduced to only two shapes: either two different rhombi, or two different quadrilaterals called kites and darts. The Penrose tilings are obtained by constraining the ways in which these shapes are allowed to fit together in a way that avoids periodic tiling.

  6. Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems - Wikipedia

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    Penrose concluded that whenever there is a sphere where all the outgoing (and ingoing) light rays are initially converging, the boundary of the future of that region will end after a finite extension, because all the null geodesics will converge. [5]

  7. Conformal cyclic cosmology - Wikipedia

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    Conformal cyclic cosmology (CCC) is a cosmological model in the framework of general relativity and proposed by theoretical physicist Roger Penrose. [1] [2] [3] In CCC, the universe iterates through infinite cycles, with the future timelike infinity (i.e. the latest end of any possible timescale evaluated for any point in space) of each previous iteration being identified with the Big Bang ...

  8. Illumination problem - Wikipedia

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    Roger Penrose's solution of the illumination problem using elliptical arcs (blue) and straight line segments (green), with 3 positions of the single light source (red spot). The purple crosses are the foci of the larger arcs. Lit and unlit regions are shown in yellow and grey respectively.

  9. Penrose graphical notation - Wikipedia

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    Penrose graphical notation (tensor diagram notation) of a matrix product state of five particles. In mathematics and physics, Penrose graphical notation or tensor diagram notation is a (usually handwritten) visual depiction of multilinear functions or tensors proposed by Roger Penrose in 1971. [1]