In 1964 I read an article that awoke my lifelong interest in one particular subject; at Pulkov observatory near St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad), astrophysicist Nikolai Alexandrovich Kozyrev was conducting research into the nature of time. In 1964 he was already a prominent scientist, one who had discovered volcanic activity on the Moon. Estimating the nuclear energy needed to maintain the high temperature of a star, Kozyrev came to the conclusion that the star would need an additional source of energy, otherwise it would have long ago ceased to exist as a star. But what was the energy source? Suppose time were a real property of nature, like gravitation or magnetism? Then time itself would be the source of energy, maintaining the star’s existence. Applying this hypothesis to classical mechanics, Kozyrev introduced the Causal Mechanics that differentiate between past and future, and conducted experiments brilliantly, confirming the theory he developed .....................................................

We don’t know how alien intelligent life would look to us because we cannot imagine anything beyond our human experience. We may read about or look at drawings of mythical centaurs, mermaids, giant ants and spiders, fantastic machines, and ghouls, but all these creations have something in common: they are just combined parts of our experience. We know what a man or a horse looks like; now take the head and torso of a man and combine it with a headless horse—and here is a centaur. A mermaid is a woman with a fish tail. There is nothing beyond our collective life experience, and there is nothing in our brains that could be beyond this experience. Even religions find it easier to speak of prophets, saints, and demons than about God. How would one depict God? In the description would no gender, no human limbs or face. We don’t know if there is an actual physical entity or if God’s existence simply extends throughout the Universe. Therefore, all religious books are silent on that subject. In science fiction literature or movies aliens of two kinds are described or shown: benign aliens have human or cute animal-like features, though frequently distorted, and evil ones are huge, and not very cute, or they are an ugly conglomerate of a quarter of this, a quarter of that… Here lies a fundamental mistake in the approach we use to detect the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations: we don’t know with certainty what possible method of communication between them and us would work. So why do we insist on surveying the sky with radio waves? Kozyrev once said, “Maybe they don’t have radio?” Time as a physical quality, having instantaneous propagation throughout the universe, allows us to understand telepathy, and hopefully opens channels of communication with alien civilizations.