About this Book

The title of this book is literal and intended for two different but complementary meanings: first because “time” is a treasure chest that may open only when we appreciate its “real nature” , and then we shall discover that our normal time is actually imaginary, and that its real part is nothing but the “space” itself, which acts like the wave-front that is the “chest” of the outward time. Therefore, scientifically speaking, the Chest of Time is the physical vacuum, or empty space, that is the “aether” , or the “quintessence” , that contains huge amount of energy, which we usually call “dark” because we don’t have access to it under our current theories!

The purpose of this book is to explain the mystery of time in a modest language away from any complex mathematical formulation or hefty philosophical pondering. All the new concepts about time and creation are extracted from the “Single Monad Model of the Cosmos” developed by the author based on Ibn al-Arabi’s theory of the “Oneness of Being” . The details of this cosmological model and all associated principles have been published in a series of books that describe this revolutionary view and its ontological foundations, comparing all that with the concluding results of modern scientific theories of physics and cosmology.

The Single Monad Model of the Cosmos book series contains three volumes:

1. The Single Monad Model of the Cosmos: Ibn al-Arabi’s Concept of Time and Creation

ISBN-13: 978-1499779844, ISBN-10: 1499779844, Publication Date: June, 2014

2. Duality of Time Theory: Complex-Time Geometry and Perpetual Creation of Space

ISBN-13: 978-1499779844, ISBN-10: 1499779844, Publication Date: December, 2017

3. Ultimate Symmetry: Fractal Complex-Time, the Incorporeal World and Quantum Gravity

ISBN-13: 978-1723828690, ISBN-10: 1723828696, Publication Date: January, 2019

In the first volume, we introduced Ibn al-Arabi’s eccentric conception of time and outlined the general aspects of his cosmological views. This fundamental insight was developed in the second volume into the Duality of Time Theory, which provided elegant solutions to many persisting problems in physics and cosmology, including the arrow-of-time, super-symmetry, matter-antimatter asymmetry, wave-particle duality, mass generation, homogeneity, and non-locality, in addition to deriving the principles of Special and General Relativity based on its granular complex-time geometry. The third volume explores how the apparent physical and metaphysical multiplicity is emerging from the oneness of divine presence, descending through four fundamental levels of symmetry: ultimate, hyper, super and normal, in addition to the original level of absolute oneness.

The current book is extracted and refined from these three volumes, to make it relevant and more accessible to the general readers who may be interested in the definitive conclusions rather than any exhausting proofs. Passionate readers who require further comprehensive arguments are referred to the previous volumes inside the text whenever some urgent validation may be necessary.

However, although it is now certainly possible and much easier achievable, this does not mean that it is has become so naively easy to explain the complex nature of time without any extensive introductions. Even after decades of pondering about this challenging subject, often when I retire, for a few days, and then come back again to think about the mystery of time and the process of perpetual creation, I need to study everything thoroughly again in order to retain the logical image of this impermeable reality beyond ordinary human imagination. Even after that, the entire portrait could hardly be recognized only after many puzzles had been, sometimes accidentally, cracked. Without the strong indications and overwhelming proofs that gradually accumulated over the years, it would have been impossible to pursue this long research path, as it is extremely challenging to appreciate the unfathomable secret of complex-time and ongoing perpetual creation.

This “Duality of Time Theory” does not only explain how the Universe appeared ex-nihilo, but that it is always in this ontological state of potential existence; only perpetually coming into being for some series of consecutive discrete instances of time, the duration of which is absolutely zero, but as a result of our manipulative past memory and future expectation we imagine time extensions in which we are no more than dreamlike passing shadows making some monotonous noise for a short period of imaginary time, before we leave this World to a relatively higher level of existence.

Therefore, this research on the Single Monad Model made a substantial breakthrough in mathematics, physics, and cosmology, as well as natural philosophy, because it exposes a deeper level of time and original theory of creation that could explain many persisting problems in these various fields. The main result of the Duality of Time Theory is that vacuum is the real time, while our time is genuinely imaginary or latent to it, which makes it described as void. This vacuum-void duality is basically the same ancient atomistic philosophy, reinterpreted out of the most original theological and philosophical conceptions, combined together with the conclusions of modern physics and cosmology.

This research took more than three decades to crystallize, and it may be several more decades are needed to realize its immense consequences, because it goes far beyond the long-awaited Theory-of-Everything, to include all the physical, psychical and spiritual domains. This unique understanding of geometry will cause a paradigm shift in our knowledge of the fundamental nature of the cosmos and its corporeal and incorporeal structures. There is no doubt that this is the most significant discovery in the history of mathematics, physics and philosophy, ever!