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Does our past light-cone have some extension in three-dimensional space?

On spacetime diagrams cosmologists represent our past light-cone as a two-dimensional surface extending back in time, on which are situated all light-emitting events which we can observe today. This is especially clearly shown when cosmic comoving coordinates are used. But shouldn't the past light-cone also have some (causal) extension in the 3rd spatial dimension and how large could this "thickness" be?