MEANING
The path an object traces through spacetime, representing its history of positions and times.
Use it for
Relativistic travel, causal structure, and visualizing an object’s complete history in spacetime.Use when a narrative needs a precise model of where an object is across both space and time.
On the page
The simulation showed the probe’s worldline bending around the black hole.
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- worldline
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