Today I read a paper titled “Visualizing Flat Spacetime: Viewing Optical versus Special Relativistic Effects”
The abstract is:
A simple visual representation of Minkowski spacetime appropriate for a student with a background in geometry and algebra is presented
Minkowski spacetime can be modeled with a Euclidean 4-space to yield accurate visualizations as predicted by special relativity theory
The contributions of relativistic aberration as compared to classical pre-relativistic aberration to the geometry are discussed in the context of its visual representation