Dear Friends, Indian Journal of Science and Technology has accepted my second article for publication on 10/10/2017. This article is about absolute nature of time.
You must have heard of time travel. There are numerous books and movies that are based on the concept of time travel into past or future. Those of you who have seen the movie #Intersteller, must be familiar with this concept. In the movie, a former astronaut (Cooper) goes to space on a secret #NASA mission. When he comes back, he finds that his daughter had grown older than him. This is apparently contradictory logically; such events are also known as 'Time paradox'. Though the story in the movie is fictional but the concept of time travel and 'Time paradox' has a scientific backing from Einstein's theory of relativity which articulates that time slows down for fast moving objects and for the objects under the influence of strong gravity. This slowdown of time is known as 'Time Dilation.'
According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, time is assumed to be dependent on the condition of the observer; for moving observer time runs slower than for stationary observer. According to common sense time should be absolute and independent of the condition of the observer. However, variability of time is a strong pillar of Einstein's Theory of Relativity which has been proved abundantly, therefore, variability of time is also reasoned to have been proven. Considering the fact that Einstein's theory of relativity enjoys worldwide recognition, it is near impossible to contradict it and prove that time is absolute.
Notwithstanding the strong support for variability of time, it has been proven in this article that time is absolute, and there is no requirement of assuming variable time for explaining the Theory of Relativity. In this article, I have considered four main confirmations of Theory of Relativity and shown that all of them can be proved without assuming the time to be variable for fast moving objects.
My article has gone through a review process of the journal and it has been accepted for publication. Hopefully, this article throws a new light on redundancy of time dilation in theory of relativity and helps in clarifying the qualms regarding 'Time travel' and 'Time paradox'.
The article is expected to be published in a few weeks.