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.The delicate instruments of.the scout instantaneously adjusted itsown magnetic field as much as possible.There was resistance, enormousresistance -- the ship crumpled in on itself, the tail vanished in dust as asweeping crumbier beam caught it at last -- and the remaining portion of theship plowed into the nose of theMiran.The Miran's force-control-room was wrecked.For perhaps a minute and a half,the ship was without control, then the control was re-established -- and invain the telescopes and instruments searched for the T-253.Lightless, herrockets out now, her fields damped down to extinction, the T-253 was lost inthe pulsing, gyrating fields of half a dozen scout-ships.Kendall looked grimly at the crushed spot on the nose of the Miran.His shipwas drifting slowly away from the greater ship.Presently, however, the Miranput on speed in the direction of Earth, and the T-253 fell far behind.TheMiran was not seriously injured.But that scout pilot, in sacrificing life,had " thrown dust in their eyes for just those few moments Kendall had neededto lose a lightless ship in lightless space -- lightless -- for the Mirans atany rate.The IP ships had been covered with a black paint, and in no time atall, Kendall had gotten his ship into a position where the energy radiationsof the sun made him indetectable from the Miran's position, since theradiation of Ms own ship, even in the heat range, was mingled with the directradiation of the sun.The sun was in the Miran's "eyes," both actual andinstrumental.An hour later the Miran returned, passed the still-lightness ship at adistance of five million miles, and settled to Phobos for the slight repairsneeded.Twelve hours later, the T-253 settled to Luna, for the many rearrangements shewould need."I rather knew it was coming," Kendall admitted sadly, "but danged if I didn'tforget all about it.And -- cost the life of one of the finest men in- thesystem.Jehnson's family get a permanent pension just twice his salary,McLaurin.In the meantime -- ""What was it? Pure heat, but how?""Pure radio.Nothing but short-wave radio directed at us.They probably hadthe apparatus, knew how to make it, but that's not a good type of heat ray,because a radio tube is generally less than eighty percent efficient, which isa whale of a loss when you're working in a battle, and a whale of aninconvenience.We were heated only four times as much as the Miran.He had topump that heat into a heat-reservoir -- a water tank probably -- to protecthimself.Highly inefficient and ineffective against a large ship.Also, he hadto hold his beam on us nearly ten minutes before it would have becomeunbearable.He was again trying to kill the men, and not the ship.The men arethe weakest point, obviously.""Can you overcome that?""Obviously, no.The thing works on pure energy.I'd have to match his energyto neutralize it.YOU knew it's an old proposition, that if you could take abeam of pure, monochromatic light and divide it exactly in half, and thenrecombine it in perfect interference, you'd have annihilation of energy.Cancellation to extinction.The trouble is, you never do get that.You can'tget monochromatic light, because light can't be monochromatic.That's due tothe Heisenberg Uncertainty -- my pet bug-bear.The atom that radiates thelight, must be moving.If it isn't, the emission of the light itself gives itPage 33 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmla kick that moves it.Now, no matter what the quantum might have been, itloses energy in kicking the atom.That changes the situation instantly, andincidentally the 'color' of the light.Then, since all the radiating atomswon't be moving alike, etc., the mass of light can't be monochromatic.Therefore perfect interference is impossible."The way that relates to the problem in hand, is that we can't possiblydestroy his energy.We can, as we do in the crumbier stunt, change it.Hecan't, I suspect, put too much power behind his crumbier, or he'd havecrumbling going on at home.We get a slight heating frpm it, anyway.Into thebargain, his radio was after us, and his neutrons naturally carried energy.Now, no matter what we do, we've got that to handle [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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.The delicate instruments of.the scout instantaneously adjusted itsown magnetic field as much as possible.There was resistance, enormousresistance -- the ship crumpled in on itself, the tail vanished in dust as asweeping crumbier beam caught it at last -- and the remaining portion of theship plowed into the nose of theMiran.The Miran's force-control-room was wrecked.For perhaps a minute and a half,the ship was without control, then the control was re-established -- and invain the telescopes and instruments searched for the T-253.Lightless, herrockets out now, her fields damped down to extinction, the T-253 was lost inthe pulsing, gyrating fields of half a dozen scout-ships.Kendall looked grimly at the crushed spot on the nose of the Miran.His shipwas drifting slowly away from the greater ship.Presently, however, the Miranput on speed in the direction of Earth, and the T-253 fell far behind.TheMiran was not seriously injured.But that scout pilot, in sacrificing life,had " thrown dust in their eyes for just those few moments Kendall had neededto lose a lightless ship in lightless space -- lightless -- for the Mirans atany rate.The IP ships had been covered with a black paint, and in no time atall, Kendall had gotten his ship into a position where the energy radiationsof the sun made him indetectable from the Miran's position, since theradiation of Ms own ship, even in the heat range, was mingled with the directradiation of the sun.The sun was in the Miran's "eyes," both actual andinstrumental.An hour later the Miran returned, passed the still-lightness ship at adistance of five million miles, and settled to Phobos for the slight repairsneeded.Twelve hours later, the T-253 settled to Luna, for the many rearrangements shewould need."I rather knew it was coming," Kendall admitted sadly, "but danged if I didn'tforget all about it.And -- cost the life of one of the finest men in- thesystem.Jehnson's family get a permanent pension just twice his salary,McLaurin.In the meantime -- ""What was it? Pure heat, but how?""Pure radio.Nothing but short-wave radio directed at us.They probably hadthe apparatus, knew how to make it, but that's not a good type of heat ray,because a radio tube is generally less than eighty percent efficient, which isa whale of a loss when you're working in a battle, and a whale of aninconvenience.We were heated only four times as much as the Miran.He had topump that heat into a heat-reservoir -- a water tank probably -- to protecthimself.Highly inefficient and ineffective against a large ship.Also, he hadto hold his beam on us nearly ten minutes before it would have becomeunbearable.He was again trying to kill the men, and not the ship.The men arethe weakest point, obviously.""Can you overcome that?""Obviously, no.The thing works on pure energy.I'd have to match his energyto neutralize it.YOU knew it's an old proposition, that if you could take abeam of pure, monochromatic light and divide it exactly in half, and thenrecombine it in perfect interference, you'd have annihilation of energy.Cancellation to extinction.The trouble is, you never do get that.You can'tget monochromatic light, because light can't be monochromatic.That's due tothe Heisenberg Uncertainty -- my pet bug-bear.The atom that radiates thelight, must be moving.If it isn't, the emission of the light itself gives itPage 33 ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmla kick that moves it.Now, no matter what the quantum might have been, itloses energy in kicking the atom.That changes the situation instantly, andincidentally the 'color' of the light.Then, since all the radiating atomswon't be moving alike, etc., the mass of light can't be monochromatic.Therefore perfect interference is impossible."The way that relates to the problem in hand, is that we can't possiblydestroy his energy.We can, as we do in the crumbier stunt, change it.Hecan't, I suspect, put too much power behind his crumbier, or he'd havecrumbling going on at home.We get a slight heating frpm it, anyway.Into thebargain, his radio was after us, and his neutrons naturally carried energy.Now, no matter what we do, we've got that to handle [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]