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May I be allowed one more important allusion to the 'riddle of the gods’. In my first book I mentioned the theory of relativity, the basic rocket formula and time shifts on interstellar flights. We have seen that time for the crew of a space-ship travelling just below the speed of light passes considerably slower than for those who stay behind on the launching planet. Should we regard it as coincidence that the oldest writings, quite independently of each other, constantly emphasise that the units of time applicable to the gods are different from ours? A human generation was only a 'moment' to the Indian god Vishnu. Each of the legendary emperors of Chinese prehistory was a heavenly ruler, who drove through the sky with fire-breathing dragons and lived for 18,000 terrestrial years. Indeed P'an Ku, the first heavenly ruler, travelled around in the cosmos two million two hundred and twenty-nine thousand years ago, and even our own familiar Old Testament assures us that in the hand of God everything is 'a time and times and the dividing of time' (Daniel 7:25), or as Psalm xc, 4, so magnificently expresses it: ',.. the riddle of the gods, the riddle of the origin of man, a chaos of traditions, the real meaning of which our limited erudition is still unable to explain.' ‘For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.'