terminal indecomposable future
terminal indecomposable future
[¦tər·mən·əl ‚in·di·kəm¦pōz·ə·bəl ′fyü·chər] (relativity)
A means of attaching a causal boundary to a space-time; it is the future of a past inextendible timelike curve. Abbreviated TIF.
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