The Minkowski Diagram

A Minkowski diagram is a visual tool used in physics to understand how space and time are related in special relativity. It depicts events as points on a graph with space on one axis and time on another. By doing so, it shows how different observers moving at different speeds perceive the timing and location of events, illustrating concepts like time dilation and length contraction. The diagram helps visualize how the world looks from various reference frames, emphasizing that measurements of time and space are relative and depend on the observer’s motion.