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Self-Explanatory Minkowski Space

A UFO (U) flies past me (B) at high velocity v. At that very instant, I emit two light beams; one to the left and one to the right. Two light fronts, Fr and Fl, are formed. The distance from the light front to the UFO, measured in the direction of the UFO's flight, is much smaller than the distance to the front traveling in the opposite direction. These light beams could just as well have been emitted by the UFO itself. In this scenario, the speed of light would appear slow in one direction and disproportionately fast in the other. However, according to the "Snow Globe Theory" and Theorem S3, the speed of light (c) remains exactly the same there as it is everywhere else in the world. If one adds a vertical ct-axis (where t represents time), extending upward from point B, the result is the Minkowski cone, quite self-explanatorily.

Ludwig Resch