Albert Einstein, wrote the following to a family member of his recently deceased friend Michele Besso: “Now Besso has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us . . . know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” Einstein is referring to our illusion of time, a concept he elaborated on in his theory of relativity, which holds that there is no single, special “present” moment and that all moments in time are equally real. If there’s no distinction between past, present, and future, then, by
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