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We have more than ample time to do that which must be done the fifth-order projector shall be completed before the warning torpedo shall have reached the planet of the Fenachrone therefore over-exertion is unwarranted. As for testing, know now that only mechanisms built by bunglers require testing. Properly built machines work properly."
Because while they can't work through a zone of force, some of their real scientists and they have lots of them, not like the bull-headed soldier we captured may well be able to detect a fifth-order ray even if they can't work with them intelligently and if they detected our ray, it'd put them on guard." "You are exactly right, Dick," agreed Crane.
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.
But how can we see anything there? I always thought that I knew something about rays, but I see that I do not. The light-rays must be released, or deheterodyned, close to the object viewed, with nothing opaque to light intervening. They must then be reflected from the object seen, must be gathered together, again heterodyned upon the fifth-order carrier, and retransmitted back to us.
Faster and faster he drove that fifth-order beam along the track of the fugitive, until a speed was attained beyond which his detecting converters could not hold the ether-rays they were following. For many minutes Seaton stared intently into the visiplate, plotting lines and calculating forces, then he swung around to Crane.
They certainly can't lick us, because we can outrun 'em. If we can't get 'em alone, we'll beat it back to Norlamin and bring up re-enforcements." "I am not so sure," Crane spoke slowly. "There is, I believe, a theoretical possibility that sixth-order rays exist. Would an extension of the methods of detection of fifth-order rays reveal them?" "Sixth? Sweet spirits of niter!
Huge as she was, there was no waste space her design was as compact as that of a fine radio set. The living quarters were grouped closely about the central compartment, which housed the power plants, the many ray generators and projectors, and the myriads of controls of the marvelous mechanism for the projection and direction of fifth-order rays.
That is to be expected from the generally-accepted idea that the apparent velocity of any ether vibration is independent of the velocity of either source or receiver. However, that relationship fails at velocities far below that of fifth-order rays.
Their scientists cannot direct nor control any ray not propagated through ether, but they can detect one such frequency or band of frequencies which they call 'infra-rays' and which are probably the fifth-order rays, since they lie in the first level below the ether.
It's a fifth-order detector ray, coming in beautifully on band forty-seven fifty, right in the middle of the order." "Aren't you going to put a ray on 'em?" asked Dorothy in surprise. "Nope what's the use? I can read theirs as well as I could one of my own.
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