Possibility of Experimental Study of Properties of Time

TL;DR — Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kozyrev’s English-translated paper proposing that time is an active physical force and describing torsion-balance and gyroscope experiments.

An English translation of a paper by Nikolai A. Kozyrev (1908–1983), an astronomer at the Pulkovo Observatory, dated “Pulkovo, September 1967” at its end. The original Russian title is given as O vozmozhnosti eksperimental’nogo issledovaniya svoystv vremeni.

Part 1 sets out Kozyrev’s “causal mechanics”: the idea that time is not merely duration but has physical properties, including a direction (“course”) that can act on matter and produce forces. Later parts describe the laboratory work he says he began in the winter of 1951–52 — weighing spinning gyroscopes and measuring the deflection of pendulums and torsion balances — and apply the theory to astronomy, including the asymmetric shapes of planets and the properties of double stars he reported to the International Astronomical Union in 1966.

Mainstream physics did not accept Kozyrev’s results, which were not reliably reproduced; his ideas have since been taken up mainly in fringe “torsion field” and alternative-science circles.

What it is: A translation of a paper by a credentialed astronomer advancing a theory that is outside accepted physics. Treat as a historical curiosity of Soviet science, not a reliable result.

Where this came from

• A copy saved in October 2026.

16 pages. A PDF copy is held in Kyle’s private archive; it is not linked or shared here.