On El Naschie's complex time, Hawking's imaginary time and special relativity (Q1432973)

The authors show by means of a simple thought experiment that the idea of complex time comes out when two independent inertial observers, one moving relative to the other with constant velocity, try to communicate via a light signal in order to compare their own proper time measurements for the same event. Based on the realization that the time employed by the signal to travel form one observer to the other is not directly measurable, a general expression for the complex time can be constructed which complies with the possibility of time decomposition into two dimensions. Moreover the authors also show that the idea of a complex space and the inverse Lorentz transformation of special relativity follow as a direct consequence of the complex nature of time.