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Updated: May 8, 2025
The little gadget that Mike the Angel carried did more than just detect the nearby operation of a vibroblade. It was also a defense. The gadget focused a high-density magnetic field on any vibroblade that came anywhere within six inches of Mike's body. In that field, the steel blade simply couldn't move. It was as though it had been caught in a vise.
"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.
Possibly it was because they didn't have the insulation necessary to keep down the corona effect; in a high-density current, the electrons tend to push each other sideways out of the wire. "At any rate, I tried it, using lux metal as an insulator around the wire." "Hold it!" Fuller interrupted. "What, may I ask, is lux metal?" "That was Wade's idea," Arcot grinned.
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