Essay “The True History of Time Without the False Fictions of Stephen Hawking” from the trilogy “In the Ghosts of Lost Mirrors” (“Earth and People”, “Reckoning Time”, “People’s Lives”) by V.P. Butromeeva. To understand what time is, you need to answer the questions: “What is life? What is death? What is a sense of life? What is the national idea? Therefore, the question of time has always been the main, main question for any thinking person. The correct idea is that such a time arose during the times of Ancient Greece. Galileo Galilei returned to it during the Renaissance. The history of the question of time is reminiscent of the history of the question of what is at the center of our planetary system - the Earth or the Sun. The ancient Greek philosophers knew very well that the Earth revolves around the Sun. But after the obscurantism of the Medieval night, it took the “discovery” of Copernicus, confirmed by the words of Galileo: “And yet it turns!” to return to a correct understanding of how the immediate surroundings of the Universe work. These days, the pseudoscientific idea of Stephen Hawking's time has become widespread. It is disguised by scientific arguments, supposedly inaccessible to the understanding of the uninitiated, which must be taken on faith and which are presented as sacred truths in the last instance, not requiring proof and not allowing doubt. All of Hawking’s inventions are based on mystical conjectures and on the results of the famous “thought experiments.” The very expression “thought experiment” is similar to the expression “fried ice.” But these “mental excrement”, seasoned with fairy tales about “wormholes” and “black holes”, through which you can get to other worlds and spaces, visit the past and future and ensure immortality, attract the attention of those who are inclined to be content with cheap fantasies instead of a real picture of the world. The proposed book is not devoted to analyzing all this nonsense. It simply sets out the true history of the question of time. And for someone who wants and can understand the world in which he lives, this is enough. And besides, this is much more interesting than all the delusional fantasies of Hawking, his predecessors and naive followers.