Nikolai Kozyrev: Time as an Active Force

His Life, Work and Unique Theory of Time

“Time is the most important and most enigmatic property of nature. The concept of time surpasses our imagination. The recondite attempts to understand the nature of time by the philosophers of antiquity, the scholars in the Middle Ages, and the modern scientist, possessing a knowledge of sciences and the experience of their history, have proven fruitless. Probably this occurs because time involves the most profound and completely unknown properties of the world which can scarcely be envisaged by the bravest flight of human fancy. Past these properties of the world there passes the triumphal procession of modern science and technical progress. In reality, the exact sciences negate the existence in time of any other qualities other than the simplest quality of "duration" or time intervals, the measurement of which is realized in hours. This quality of time is similar to the spatial interval.”