In Memory of Nikolai Alexandrovich Kozyrev (1908-1983)
Abstract
This article proposes a radical reinterpretation of the works of Soviet astrophysicist N.A. Kozyrev through the lens of metamonist ontology. Metamonism is an ontological system based on the principle of prohibition of non-being, from which contradiction, autonegation, and dual dissipation through the channels of time and space emerge as consequences. It is demonstrated that Kozyrev’s empirical observations, rejected by mainstream science as artifacts, can be reinterpreted as the first experimental evidence of the fundamental connection between time and gravitation. Metamonism provides the theoretical foundation that Kozyrev lacked for adequate interpretation of his revolutionary discoveries.
1. Introduction: The Tragedy of a Misunderstood Discovery
Nikolai Alexandrovich Kozyrev stands as one of the most controversial figures in the history of Soviet astrophysics. A recognized specialist in lunar and planetary physics who discovered volcanic activity on Earth’s satellite, he simultaneously created a theory that was met with disbelief and skepticism by the scientific community.
His “causal mechanics” and concept of time as a physical substance seemed to fall outside the bounds of scientific method. Experiments with torsion balances and gyroscopes were not reproduced by independent researchers. By the end of the 20th century, Kozyrev’s theory had been effectively rejected by academic science.
Kozyrev was a heretic — not in the religious sense, but in the deepest scientific meaning: he challenged the fundamental axioms of his era’s physics. Like all true heretics, he paid the price: his ideas were marginalized, his experiments dismissed, his voice silenced by the orthodoxy of established science.
However, a question arises: what if Kozyrev was right, but spoke in a language that the physics of his era could not understand? What if his heresy was not an error, but a glimpse of a deeper truth that required a new ontological framework to be properly articulated?
2. Core Tenets of Kozyrev’s Theory
2.1. Time as an Active Agent
Kozyrev rejected the Newtonian conception of time as a passive container of events. For him, time was:
- A source of energy for stars (alternative to thermonuclear fusion)
- A physical substance capable of affecting material processes
- A carrier of directionality connected to the irreversibility of processes
2.2. Asymmetry of Cause and Effect
Kozyrev asserted that cause and effect are separated not only in time but also in space. Irreversible processes create spatial asymmetry detectable by sensitive instruments.
2.3. Gyroscopic Experiments
Using torsion balances and gyroscopes, Kozyrev claimed he could detect “flows of time” emanating from irreversible processes: evaporation, dissolution, deformation, and even from distant astronomical objects.
2.4. The Problem of Reproducibility
Kozyrev’s experiments were not successfully reproduced. This became the main argument against his theory. However, an alternative interpretation is possible: the effects were too subtle, and the conceptual apparatus was inadequate.
3. Metamonist Ontophysics: A New Foundation
3.1. Core Principles of Metamonism
Metamonism is an ontological system that emerged in early 2025, based on the following principles:
Prohibition of indifference (nothingness) → automatically generates difference → minimal difference generates contradiction → contradiction resolves through autonegation (mutual transformation)
3.2. Fundamental Contradiction: The Conflict of Angular Momentum
The fundamental ontological contradiction is embodied in angular momentum (L = r × p):
- A system rotates (continuously changes direction)
- Angular momentum is conserved (remains constant)
- Conflict: change and conservation simultaneously
This conflict always existed — it has no beginning in time.
3.3. Two Channels of Dissipation
The fundamental contradiction resolves through mutual transformation via two channels:
Being dissipates through the channel of TIME:
- Manifests as gravitation (centrifugal, repulsion)
- Generates the temporal dimension
Non-being dissipates through the channel of SPACE:
- Manifests as antigravitation (centripetal, pushing-inward)
- Generates spatial dimensions
All fundamental interactions are modes of interaction of this primordial pair.
3.4. Matter as Equilibrium Form
Substance is not a substrate but a dynamic equilibrium between repulsion (gravitation) and pushing-inward (antigravitation). Mass is the measure of intensity of this equilibrium.
4. Reinterpretation of Kozyrev: The Key Discovery
4.1. “Energy of Time” = Gravitation
Central thesis of rehabilitation:
Kozyrev observed the dissipation of time as gravitation but lacked the ontological language to describe it. He called this “energy of time.”
In metamonist terminology:
∂t ≡ G
The dissipation of time IS gravitation (as repulsion).
4.2. What Kozyrev Actually Observed
“Flows of time” = local gravitational disturbances created by irreversible processes through the dissipation of time.
“Stars absorb energy of time” = stars are nodes of intense dissipation of time-gravitation. Thermonuclear fusion is a concomitant effect, not the cause of luminosity.
“Spatial asymmetry of cause-effect” = processes create disturbances in both dissipation channels (time-gravitation and space-antigravitation), which manifests as detectable asymmetry.
4.3. The Gyroscope as Ontological Detector
The angular momentum of a gyroscope embodies the fundamental contradiction. A gyroscope is sensitive to disturbances in the equilibrium between dissipation channels.
Kozyrev created a primitive detector of microgravitational effects capable of capturing the dissipation of time in ordinary processes that classical physics considers gravitationally neutral.
4.4. Why Experiments Were Not Reproduced
- Subtlety of effect: dissipation of time in laboratory processes creates microgravitational disturbances at the limit of detectability
- Conceptual blindness: researchers sought “energy of time,” not gravitational effects
- Absence of theory: without metamonist foundation, correct interpretation of observations is impossible
5. Cosmological Consequences
5.1. The Big Bang as Continuous Process
Metamonism radically reconceptualizes cosmology:
The Big Bang was not an event 13.8 billion years ago. It is happening CONSTANTLY.
The conflict of angular momentum continuously dissipates through two channels, generating time and space as such. The “expansion of the Universe” is the continuous creation of spacetime from fundamental contradiction.
5.2. Redshift Reconsidered
Standard cosmology: redshift = stretching of space.
Metamonist interpretation:
Photons dissipate their time through gravitation:
- High-energy photons (gamma, X-ray) → visible light → infrared → microwaves
- Cosmic microwave background = photons that have maximally dissipated their time
This rehabilitates the rejected “tired light” hypothesis of Zwicky (1929).
5.3. Supernova Light Curve Stretching
The “time dilation” of supernovae, interpreted as evidence of accelerated expansion (Nobel Prize 2011):
Metamonist explanation:
A dense packet of photons from a supernova experiences gravitational mutual repulsion. Each photon dissipates time-gravitation (repulsion), stratifying the temporal profile of the packet.
This calls into question the existence of “dark energy” as a separate entity.
5.4. Black Holes
A black hole = region of maximum intensity of time-gravitation dissipation.
The “event horizon” = boundary beyond which dissipation of time becomes dominant over dissipation of space.
Hawking radiation = direct dissipation of time-gravitation, not a quantum vacuum effect.
6. Toward a New Experimental Program
6.1. Reformulation of Kozyrev’s Hypotheses
Instead of searching for “energy of time,” one should seek:
- Microgravitational signatures of irreversible processes
- Crystallization, evaporation, biological processes should create detectable gravitational disturbances
- Correlation between entropic processes and local gravimetry
- Using modern gravimeters and interferometers
- Anisotropy of gravitational field near gyroscopes
- Angular momentum as stabilizer of equilibrium between dissipation channels
6.2. Astrophysical Tests
- Spectral evolution of photons in intergalactic space
- Testing the hypothesis of time dissipation in photons
- Alternative explanation of supernova light curve stretching
- Modeling gravitational mutual repulsion in photon packets
- Search for correlations between gravitational waves and Kozyrev’s “flows of time”
6.3. Technological Prospects
If dissipation of time-gravitation is detectable in laboratory processes, possibilities open up:
- Gravitational microscopy of processes
- New detection principles in chemistry and biology
- Monitoring entropic processes through gravimetry
7. Philosophical Culmination: The Prohibition of Non-Being as Foundation of Reality
Before drawing conclusions, it is necessary to formulate the deepest metaphysical principle underlying metamonism:
Reality does not “exist” — it is generated by the prohibition of non-being.
7.1. Ontological Sequence
At the fundamental level, what operates is not the law of excluded middle (A or ¬A), but a deeper principle:
¬A is ontologically prohibited
Indifference, absolute nothingness, non-being as such — are impossible.
From this prohibition unfolds all of reality:
- Prohibition of ¬A → necessity of being (A)
- Being generates difference (cannot be identical to itself)
- Difference generates contradiction (minimal A₁ ≠ A₂)
- Contradiction resolves through autonegation (mutual transformation)
- Autonegation dissipates through two channels (time-gravitation, space-antigravitation)
- Dissipation generates all physical reality
7.2. The Big Bang as Manifestation of Prohibition
The Big Bang was not an event 13.8 billion years ago. The Big Bang is the very fact of prohibition of ¬A.
It “occurs” outside time because it generates time. It “always existed” not in the sense of infinite duration, but in the sense of logical priority.
The conflict of angular momentum is the physical embodiment of the prohibition of indifference. It had no beginning because non-being is impossible.
7.3. The Universe as Continuous Avoidance of Non-Being
Every process, every star, every photon — these are not simply “existing objects” but moments of the Universe’s continuous refusal to become nothing.
The dissipation of time-gravitation that Kozyrev observed is the way reality constantly escapes non-being.
Time is active not because it is a “substance,” but because it is the form of realization of the ontological prohibition.
7.4. Metamonism is Logical
Metamonism does not violate logic — it shows that logic itself has an ontological foundation:
- At the fundamental level: ¬A is prohibited → only A is true
- At derivative levels: difference within A generates contradiction
- Formal logic operates at the level of derivative structures
“Non-being” (space-antigravitation) is not ¬A in the absolute sense, but the opposite pole within A. Yin-Yang is not Being versus Nothing, but two modes of unified Being that ontologically cannot be “switched off.”
8. Conclusion: Kozyrev as Pioneer
Nikolai Alexandrovich Kozyrev stood at the threshold of a fundamental discovery — the identification of time and gravitation. He empirically intuited the connection that metamonism formulates theoretically:
Time does not flow. Time dissipates. And it dissipates as gravitation.
But deeper: Kozyrev sensed that time is active because non-being is impossible. His intuition about “time as a source of energy” was an attempt to express the fundamental principle: reality does not rest but continuously generates itself from the prohibition of ¬A.
8.1. The Tragedy of Misunderstood Language
His tragedy lies not in erroneous observations but in the absence of adequate ontological language. Twentieth-century physics, built on substantival conceptions (particles, fields, spacetime as arena), could not accommodate the processual ontology that Kozyrev intuitively sensed.
He said: “time is a source of energy.” Metamonism translates: “time is the form in which the prohibition of non-being is realized.”
8.2. Rehabilitation
Metamonism provides the missing language. In its light, Kozyrev’s works cease to be “pseudoscience” and acquire the status of pioneering research on microgravitational effects of processes — the first attempts to experimentally capture how reality avoids non-being through dissipation of time-gravitation.
Kozyrev was right. He simply ran out of time.
But time, as he understood better than anyone, does not disappear without trace. It dissipates, transforms through autonegation, restores the potential of contradiction, and returns in new forms.
8.3. Legacy
Each of his experiments with gyroscopes, each observation of “flows of time” from evaporating water or a growing crystal — this is testimony that ordinary processes participate in the cosmic act of continuous generation of reality.
Metamonism is the return of Kozyrev’s ideas at a new turn of the spiral of knowledge. Not as a museum exhibit, but as a living research program opening the path to understanding the deepest mystery:
Why is there something rather than nothing?
Kozyrev’s answer through metamonism: Because nothing is ontologically prohibited. And this generates everything.
This work is not a return to the past, but participation in a living editorial organism, where forgotten ideas pass through the tension of dialogue and acquire new form. Kozyrev’s voice, silenced by his era, can now speak through the language of metamonism — not as vindication of the past, but as invitation to future research at the intersection of ontology and physics.
The rehabilitation of a heretic is always the rehabilitation of a question that orthodoxy refused to ask. Kozyrev asked: what if time is not passive? Metamonism provides the framework to answer: time is the form in which reality continuously refuses to become nothing. His heresy becomes, in this light, not error but prophecy — a scientific intuition that awaited its proper language.
In the spirit of Heretic Today, this article affirms that the advancement of knowledge requires not only the courage to think differently, but also the humility to revisit what was too hastily dismissed. Kozyrev’s legacy is a reminder that today’s heresy may be tomorrow’s foundation.
References
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- Kozyrev N.A. Astronomical Observations by Means of Physical Properties of Time // Flare Stars. — Yerevan, 1977.
- Levich A.P. Substantial Interpretation of the Phenomenon of Time // Philosophy of Science. — 2003. — No. 4.
- Protoontology of Metamonism (2025). https://orcid.org/0009-0004-9889-7879
Dedicated to the memory of Nikolai Alexandrovich Kozyrev — a scientist ahead of his time.
