The Chest of Time

It is time to reveal the secret of time: Time is real at the present instance of its being, but because it does not halt; we can only reflect upon its perpetually flowing images, and that’s why it is actually imaginary. Therefore, time itself is both “real” and “imaginary” ; it is real in its own being, and imaginary in the actual outward manifestations that we usually observe in each current individual instance of its continuous flow. This “duality of time” means that it has a genuine “complex geometry” , with a real part and an imaginary part. In the real flow of time, space and matter are internally created, and they are observed in the imaginary time as they kinetically evolve. However, because observation is one single instance of time, the observed things become instantly extinct, into the past, right after their being in the indivisible present instance of time, to be perpetually re-created again in the following future instances, in ever new images that could resemble the previous with some outwardly minor changes that cause the illusion of motion and dimensions.

Therefore, although time is the essence of everything in existence, yet its own essence cannot be defined independently because it is the temporal individual instances of all discrete things that come into being only one at a time, and because the observer is one of those individual things, it is only possible to observe the instantaneous temporal images of the other things that have already vanished and are being perpetually re-created. This means that all individual entities in the Universe are continuously created anew every single instance of time, one entity at a time, so that at every real instance there is only one indivisible real entity that is the Single Monad, and all other imaginary entities are its temporal and instantaneous images.

In other words: Time is always revealing its essence when we are not watching, but when we watch; it instantly hides in our own essence, because it is all one indivisible existence that is taking the three roles of the observed thing and the observer, as well as observation itself; continuously alternating between this cosmological trinity of the subject, object and action; but not all at the same real instance of time, as it is usually conceived by normal human imagination which conveys the illusory sensation that physical objects are real because it is averaging their extremely fast and instantaneous fluctuation into the present existence, in the same manner as we are normally deceived by the seemingly continuous existence and apparent motion of characters displayed on a computer screen, when they are in fact being re-created at an extremely fast refresh rate.

Hence, for its own existence, time is real, because it is always in the state of being. For us, however, time is imaginary, because it is always becoming into the past. There is only one indivisible present moment that is continuously dividing the real flow of time into remembered past and expected future, both of them are unreal with regard to the observer, because the first has already vanished and the latter has not come yet. Therefore, our time is imaginary because its discrete instances come to us only one by one, but we imagine it in the form of continuous extension or duration, because we always expect the future and remember the past.

The “Duality of Time Theory” is the dynamic combination between this inward real and outward imaginary dimensions of time. This is expressed mathematically in the form of complex numbers, whose real and imaginary parts are dynamically connected with hyperbolic relation that produces a granular and self-contained Euclidean space-time, without invoking Riemannian geometry.

This complex time-time geometry according to the Duality of Time Theory is genuine, and not a simple mathematical trick as it is normally treated in modern physics theories. In the dynamic process of perpetual creation, the physical dimensions of space are sequentially being re-created in the inner levels of time, which is what makes the outward time genuinely imaginary with respect to the inner time, and thus easily expressed in terms of Euclidean geometry by using hyperbolic split-complex numbers.

Without postulating the Duality of Time and the resulting continuous creation of space, this concept of imaginary time does not have any genuine reality or justification outside the mathematical formulation, because both the Galilean space and Minkowski space-time consider space and time to be coexisting together, i.e. they both are real. The fact that each frame of the inner time, which constitutes space, appears as one instance on the outward time is what justifies treating time as imaginary with relation to space, thus latent or orthogonal to it. This will be elaborated in the following chapter.