penrose diagram

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What does penrose diagram mean?

a two-dimensional diagram capturing the causal relations between different points in spacetime

Where does penrose diagram come from?

From Penrose + diagram. Named after English mathematician Roger Penrose (1931–) who created the diagram method.

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