"For one thing," said Sutton, "this time business…"

"You don't know?" asked Case. "Why, it was a man in your own time. A man who is living at this very moment…"

"Case," said Pringle, "this is 7990. Michaelson really did very little with it until 8003."

Case clapped a hand to his forehead. "Oh, so it is," he said. "I keep forgetting."

"See," Pringle said to Sutton. "See what I mean?"

Sutton nodded, although for the life of him he didn't see what Pringle meant.

"But how?" asked Sutton.

"It's all a matter of the mind," said Pringle.

"Certainly," said Case. "If you'd just stop to think of it, you would know it was."

"Time is a mental concept," said Pringle. "They looked for time everywhere else before they located it in the human mind. They thought it was a fourth dimension. You remember Einstein…"