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We're going to project a fourth-order force out to grab us some dense material, a pretty close approach to pure neutronium.
Seaton's first thought was for the very brain of the ship the precious lens of neutronium in its thin envelope of the eternal jewel without which the beam of fifth-order rays could not be directed.
There's nothing dense enough around here, even in the core of the central sun, so we're going out to a white dwarf star one a good deal like the companion star to Sirius in Canis Major get some material of the proper density from its core, and convert our sender into a fifth-order machine. Then we can really get busy go places and do things." "Neutronium?
Ten enormous supporting forces held the lens of neutronium immovable in the exact center of the upper end; at intervals down the shaft similar forces held variously-shaped lenses and prisms formed from zones of force; in the center of the bottom or floor of the towering structure was the double controlling system, with a universal visiplate facing each operator.
"The Fenachrone learned to direct fifth-order rays so quickly, then, by an analysis of our fifth-order projector there?" "Our secondary projector, yes. They must have had some neutronium in stock, too but it would have been funny if they hadn't, at that they've had intra-atomic power for ages."
"Well, Rovol, that's that," remarked Seaton as the last connection was made. "What say we hop in and give the baby a ride over to the Area of Experiment? Caslor must have the mounting done, and we've got time enough left in this period to try her out." "In a moment. I am setting the fourth-order projector to go out to the dwarf star after an additional supply of neutronium."
It has attained the theoretical maximum of temperature some seventy million of your centigrade degrees the electrons have been stripped from the protons until the entire central core is one solid ball of neutronium and can be compressed no more without destruction of the protons themselves. Still the pressure increases. The temperature, already at the theoretical maximum, can no longer increase.
Pure mass?" queried Crane, "I have been under the impression that it does not exist. Of what use can such a substance be to you?" "Can't get pure neutronium, of course couldn't use it if we could. What we need and are going to get is a material of about two and a half million specific gravity. Got to have it for lenses and controls for the fifth-order forces.
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