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Updated: June 4, 2025
They had signaled, as soon as they slowed outside the atmosphere, and when they settled to the field, Arcot's father and a number of very important scientists had already arrived. Arcot senior greeted his son very warmly, but he was tremendously worried, as his son soon saw. "What's happened, Dad won't they believe your statements?"
Then the voice it seemed to come from the air, or some disembodied ghost as the invisible man called to Morey. "All right, Bob, turn her on slowly." There was another snap as the switch of the disrupter beam was turned on. At once there was a noticeable fogginess in the air where Arcot had been. As more and more power was turned into the machine, they saw the man materialize out of thin air.
"All right," Arcot began, "we needed two things: a tremendous source of power and a way to store it. "For the first, ordinary atomic energy wouldn't do. It's not controllable enough and uranium isn't something we could carry by the ton. So I began working with high-density currents. "At the temperature of liquid helium, near absolute zero, lead becomes a nearly perfect conductor.
We had had ray-shielded machines out, but they simply melted. They went down, and Earth retreated. They're in their fortress now. We don't know how to fight them. Now, for God's sake, tell us you have learned of some weapon, son!" The older man's face was lined. His iron gray head showed his fatigue due to hours of concentration on his work. "Some," replied Arcot briefly. He glanced around.
The field was caused by the terrific surges of current, and that magnetic field caused the walls of the ship to heat up due to the generation of electric current in the walls." Fuller looked around at the walls of the ship. "Well, the Ancient Mariner sure took a beating." "As a matter of fact, I was worried about that," said Arcot.
But if we go on another half million light years, the light signal from the nearer nebulae will be stronger than the base noise level, and full amplification will give us a good image on the screen." Fuller nodded. "Okay, then let's go that additional half million light years. I want to take a look at another galaxy." "Right." Arcot turned to the intercom. "Ready, Morey?" "Anytime you are."
Arcot was smiling amusedly at his son. "I can't very well control this except by standing directly in front of it, but I suppose you know what you're doing." "Oh, this is a laboratory model, and I haven't gotten the thing into shape really. Look at the conductors that lead to the coil; they certainly aren't carrying ten K.W." Dr. Arcot slowly rotated the rheostat.
They started for the observatory. Morey joined them and Arcot put the view of Sol and his family on the telectroscope screen. He increased the magnification to maximum, and the four men looked eagerly at the system. The sun glowed brilliantly, and the planets showed plainly.
Arcot cut the drive several light years from the nearest sun. "Well, we're where we wanted to be; now what do we do? Morey, pick us out a G-0 star. We await your royal command to move." After a few minutes at the telectroscope, Morey pointed to one of the pinpoints of light that gleamed brightly in the sky. "That one looks like our best bet. It's a G-0 a little brighter than Sol."
They certainly couldn't step out into the open space but they couldn't stay where they were indefinitely, either. Reinforcements might arrive! "Look," Wade pointed with his pistol, "he's under that big metal bar up there in the roof see it? I'll pull it down; he may get nervous and come into sight." Swiftly Arcot sprang forward and caught his arm.
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