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Updated: June 25, 2025
Dandrik, of the physics department of the Imperial University here in Asgard announced that a definite limit of accuracy in measuring the velocity of accelerated subnucleonic particles had been established 16.067543333 times light-speed. That seemed to be typical; the frontiers of science, now, were all decimal points.
Dandrik complained to Khane, Khane ordered Faress to apologize, Faress refused, and Khane dismissed Faress. Immediately, the students went on strike. Faress confirmed the whole story, and he added one small detail that Dandrik hadn't seen fit to mention.
It seems that the head of the physics department, a Professor Nelse Dandrik, had been conducting an experiment, assisted by a Professor Klenn Faress, to establish more accurately the velocity of subnucleonic particles, beta micropositos, I believe. Dandrik's story, as relayed to Handrosan by Khane, is that he reached a limit and the apparatus began giving erratic results."
Dandrik ordered you to drop this experiment, just when it was becoming interesting, you refused?" "Your Majesty, I couldn't stop, not then. But Dr. Dandrik ordered the apparatus dismantled and scrapped, and I'm afraid I lost my head. Told him I'd punch his silly old face in, for one thing." "You admit that?" Chancellor Khane cried. "I think you showed admirable self-restraint in not doing it.
Isn't even a full professor, and he got his degree from some school away off-planet. University of Brannerton on Gimli." "Were you a pupil of Professor Vann Evaratt?" Prince Travann asked sharply. "Why, yes, sir. "Ha, no wonder!" Dandrik crowed. "Your Majesty, that man's an out-and-out charlatan!
I suspect that the apparent anticipation is simply an observational illusion, similar to the illusion of time-reversal experienced when it was first observed, though not realized, that positrons sometimes exceeded light-speed." "Why, that's what I've been saying all along!" Dandrik broke in. "The whole thing is an illusion, due "
He then reported the highest reading before this anticipation effect was observed as the newly established limit of accuracy in measuring the velocity of accelerated micropositos, and said nothing whatever in his report about the anticipation effect." "I read a summary of the report. Why, Professor Dandrik, did you omit mentioning this slightly unusual effect?"
After registering this slight apparent jump into the future, there was no proportionate increase in anticipation with further increase of acceleration. I wanted to find out why. But when Professor Dandrik saw what was happening, he became almost hysterical, and ordered the accelerator shut down as though he were afraid it would blow up in his face."
Prince Travann stopped to light a cigarette. "At this point, Professor Dandrik ordered the experiment stopped, and Professor Faress insisted on continuing. When Dandrik ordered the apparatus dismantled, Faress became rather emotional about it obscenely abusive and threatening, according to Dandrik.
You told Professor Dandrik what had happened. What then?" "Why, Your Majesty, he simply declared that the limit of accuracy had been reached, and ordered the experiment dropped.
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