H.G.Weill's  'Time -Machine - Einstein's  constant speed limit of light     -Hawking's   Time-travel ;
        Vs
Vedantic  view  of  Cosmic Time ( Maha-kaal)- Dissolution-time (Smoshaan Kaali)  &  Global time ( griho -kali)
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As an ordinary or lay -man, I am submitting to the wiser class &and  community the  Indian Mythological / or Spiritual (Vedic)  interpretation of TIME by telling a story  from 'NARADA Bhakti-Sutra in following way(edited/compressed):-


Lord Vishnu , the executive head  for  creation of the Universe(Bishwa) , one day summoned his disciple Narada( his Ambassador for the World) and gave him half an hour (?cosmic) to fetch a jug of water from a certain part of the Earth.
 Narada came down to the World to  carry out  the order. But it so happened  that he fell in love with a girl of the World....married her, had children , lived happily and forgot his lord's message.
   Long and long earthly years passed and ,then, one day he  got a sharp call  ( maybe , -a 'mobile phone') from the  the lord as follows :
  ' Narada , -what has happened to you !  it is almost half an hour past and  no sign of your coming with the water I asked for ?'.......


 Narada  was 'struck-dumb' and mentally almost paralysed with surprise and shock ! he  tried his best to think backward !
-   ' how it could be  ! ..... I have been on this Earth now almost 30-40 years; -falling in love , getting married , having children and Lord Vishnu says that he has been waiting for  me for last half an hour !' ....................................................


      So  was it also 'Time-Contraction'(Maha-Kaal) or Cosmic -Time  or a different Time-scale that was even known to the Sages of 'Mythological days' of    'Maha-Bishwa' or  Cosmic Sphere ! ! !