 Timelike infinity (source code)

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= Timelike infinity
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Future and past <timelike infinity> are ideal endpoints of asymptotically escaping timelike trajectories in a <conformal completion>. For the <Minkowski conformal compactification>, they are the vertices $(T,R)=(\pi,0)$ and $(-\pi,0)$; these vertices are not physical spacetime events.

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