Original scientific paper

Einstein, Gödel and the Disappearance of Time

Andrej Ule

Abstract

The author discusses Gödel’s cosmological proposals that seemingly allow time-loops and time-travel, and particularly Gödel’s thesis that the objectivity of time-lapse is not guaranteed a priori but depends on the physical conditions in a cosmos. We could not ‘define’ a uniform world time-line regarding the mean state of motion of matter but some relative and partial time lapses which would appear as simultaneous for other observers. The author believes that consciousness may posses many time-modalities, and the ‘annihilation’ of lapse of time is one of them. It could be that already the momentary recollection of the past events in our mind might indicate such a possibility. However it is an open question what this possibility means for the physical reality, or for the ‘cosmos itself’?

Keywords

Kurt Gödel; Albert Einstein; time lapse; time travel; simultaneity; relativity

Hrčak ID:

12417

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/12417

Publication date:

29.12.2006.

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