The Mirage of Time Throughout Modern Physics: Scandalous Life of an Impostor

E. Schrodinger’s Quantum Mechanics taught us since early 20th Century a traumatizing lesson: bound electrons, atoms and molecules want nothing to do with the physical variable of time. In the same period, A. Einstein equally deflated the variable in his Relativistic analysis of astrophysics by showing its dependency on motion, mass and gravitation. His physics dilated time in order to keep it a workable concept in cosmology. These destabilizing visions of time always faced the obstacle of practical appeal and self-evidence the notion instills in everyone’s conscious experience. It thus never died in physics despite physicists’ increasing awareness of its problematic aura. Many today concede that time is not “fundamental”, yet the visualization of a macroscopic world bereft of time-driven phenomenology has not been successfully formulated if severally attempted. In this thesis, I show that the notion is vacuous by broadly reviewing it in Newtonian Physics, Relativity and Quantum Gravity.