  The meaning of instantaneous action at a distance is elucidated. It is shown
that the absence of a medium to transmit action (usually referred to as AAD in
the literature) and instantaneous action are not identical. Since the term
"instantaneous" is incompatible with relativity and field theory, a critique is
presented on the concept of time in relativity. It is argued that relativity
does not deal with the nature of time. Physical reality of the absolute time is
envisaged, and instantaneous action is proposed to be a natural consequence of
it. Possibly gravity is such kind of a force, however the electromagnetic
force, though envisaged as direct particle interaction (i.e. without
intermediary fields) can not be instantaneous.
