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That means turning them ninety degrees, and turning an electric into a magnetic field means turning the space-strain ninety degrees. Light evidently forms a magnetic field whose lines of force reach along its direction of motion, so that's your starting point." "Yes, and that," growled Devin, "seems to be the finishing point. Quite definitely and clearly, the graph looped down to zero.
"Won by Kid Fuller on a TKO! It appears he has brains and knows how to use them!" "You win," laughed Morey. "I concede the battle!" Arcot had cut off the space-strain drive by the time Fuller reached the control room, and the men set about making more observations. They took additional photographs and turned on the drive again. Time passed monotonously after they had examined a few stars.
Let's go on for another hour and take our pictures from that point." Fuller had awakened and come in in the meantime, and he wanted to know why they didn't take some pictures from this spot. "No point in it," said Morey. "We have the ones we took coming in; what we want is a wide-angle shot." Arcot threw on the space-strain drive once more, and they headed on at top speed.
It seems to take time to us because we are within the influence of the field. "Suppose we were to take a trip that required a week. In other words, three days traveling in space-strain, a day to look at the destination, and three more days coming back. When we returned to Earth, they would insist we had only been gone one day, the time we spent out of the drive. See?" "I catch," said Fuller.
"If we moved by the space-strain drive at all times," Arcot explained, "we would return at exactly the same time we left. Time is passing normally on Earth as it is with us right now, but whenever we use the space-strain, we move instantaneously from one point to another as far as Earth and the rest of the universe is concerned.
It was a good thing they had plenty of spare parts; some of the smaller relays had burned out completely, and several of the power leads had fused under the load that had been forced through them. The space-strain drive had been leaking energy at a terrific rate; without further repair, it could not function much longer. In the power room, Arcot surveyed the damage.
As a guide, Arcot used the compass gyroscope, the only one not twisted far out of its original position; with it, he managed to steer a fairly straight course. Meanwhile, in the power room, Wade and Morey were working frantically to get the space-strain drive coil recharged.
"Arcot," Morey called, "let's go out, say one million light years into space, at an angle to this galaxy, and see if we can get both galaxies on one plate. It will make navigation between them easier." "Good idea. We can get out and back in one day and this 'time' won't count back on Earth, anyway." Since they would travel in the space-strain all the time, it would not count as Earth time.
Suddenly they felt a terrific jolt again then the ship was moving more smoothly, and gradually it was calm. They were through! "Have we got power for the space-strain drive yet?" Arcot called through the intercom. "Enough," Morey cried. "Try it!" Arcot cut off the molecular motion drive, and threw in all the space-control power he had. The ship was suddenly supercharged with energy.
Morey swung the ship about, pointing the axis of the ship in the same direction as its line of flight. The observatory had been leading, but now the ship was turned to its normal position. They shot forward, using the space-strain drive, for a full hour at one-sixteenth power. Then Arcot cut the drive, and the disc of the sun was large before them.
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