mysteries

In mid March 1955, Albert Einstein, one of the mankind’s most revered theoretical physicists, learned of the death of his lifelong friend and collaborator Michele Besso—and in writing to Besso’s family to express his condolences, wrote these now famous words: “Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” […]