One consequence of the special theory of relativity is time dilation for bodies in motion nearing the speed of light. A person traveling in a spaceship near the speed of light for, say, one year as counted on their watch would return to earth to find that hundreds of years had elapsed. That watch, as well as the biology that yielded the wearer, his or her speed of thought, his or her ricocheting glances—everything—would then have fallen behind their earthly counterparts. Or the head of the Statue of Liberty jutting out of the sand on a beach where once, hundreds of years before, New York Harbor stood, and Charlton Heston screaming: “Ah, damn you! Goddamn you all to hell!” The equation that links the time on the 2 clocks is: T′/T = [1 – v2/c2]–1/2. But this being so, we come to the so-called Twin Paradox: perhaps we may all turn out to be mistaken twins living out of step with everyone else, desynchronized by journeys near the speed of light. When this light ceases, you die.