Wednesday, June 12, 2019

What does Imaginary Time mean?



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Imaginary time is not like the Real-time we experience in our day to day life which is classified as past, present and future. It is a very bizarre idea introduced by Stephen W.Hawking.

Imaginary time is right angled to real time. It was introduced to eliminate the theory of Creator of God from the Universe.Related image   

It is used to remove singularities which avoid the laws of physics to break. It can be seen in MINKOWSKI SPACE-TIME model which was adopted by the theory of relativity.

Real-time has a beginning which is called a big bang and an end which is called a big crunch. But Imaginary time has no beginning and no end rather it has a closed surface like a sphere. We do not have a start and end for a sphere.Related image

The imaginary time direction could be from the south pole. As one goes towards the north from the south pole, the latitudes which are uniformly placed inflates and reach the maximum at the equator and again contract to a single point at the North pole. Even though the universe is zero at the poles it would not be a singularity. This helps us to understand the origin of the universe in the imaginary time can be at a random regular point on the spacetime.

We now consider Imaginary time as a new dimension added to the regular time.

Stephen Hawking popularised this concept in his famous book " The Brief History of Time".Related image 

Can purchase this book here:

 https://www.amazon.in/Briefer-History-Time-Stephen-Hawking-ebook/dp/B00351YEZS?tag=googinhydr18418-21&tag=googinkenshoo-21&ascsubtag=_k_Cj0KCQjwxYLoBRCxARIsAEf16-tDBN60xipDXHEAMkuQGIQ4eXGWHz7WxMUx1t-A-u8jh0CSGUd1YAUaAvtyEALw_wcB_k_&gclid=Cj0KCQjwxYLoBRCxARIsAEf16-tDBN60xipDXHEAMkuQGIQ4eXGWHz7WxMUx1t-A-u8jh0CSGUd1YAUaAvtyEALw_wcB

He personally thinks that individual particles can travel through imaginary time and arrive back at an earlier real-time but not that people can travel back in time like in films such as Back to the Future.

Do you agree with him?
Do you think time travel is possible?
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All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial.

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