Magic, Mystery, and Science"[P. D. Ouspensky's] yearning for a transcendent, timeless realityone that cancels out physical disintegration and deathfigures into science at some fundamental level. Einstein found solace in his theory of relativity, which suggested to him that events are ever present in the space time continuum. When his friend Michele Besso passed on shortly before his own death, he wrote: 'For us believing physicists the distinction between past, present, and