Astounding British Edition, May 1953 — page 17: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

peace me ( t Mt ! | | \ | i shattered to its foundations if we assimilate such data. “We cannot escape the fact that one man solved antigravity. Eight days ago not one of us. would have admitted the possibility. Today we are charged with the responsibility of moving forward in time and catching up with it.” Mart’ was tired after that seminar. It became a stormy affair. There seemed a kind of anger submerged not far below the sur- face of each of them. An, anger at them- selves for having been on the wrong track for so long, a kind of diffused rage at the whole physical universe for playing such tricks when asked a straightforward ques- tion. More than one had balked at Mart’s drastic suggestion. Sanders had said, “. . . and there can be no revision of the postulate of equivalence, Any data which indicates it automatically leaves the observer of that data suspect,” Mart called Kenneth Berkeley’s office as soon as the seminar was ended. “Hi, Berk,” he said. “Yeah—how’s it coming? I’ve been wanting to get over your way the last couple of days. I haven’t noticed any of you boys moving out into the machine shops yet. I WN ASS INU hs - ‘ | to” =: | \\ suppose you are still in the paper-work stage.” “We haven’t got there, yet,” muttered Mart. “I have more important things than — antigravity to discuss with you. How are you set up for a couple of days’ fishing?” “Fishing? I could probably make it. All work and no play and that sort of thing— I don’t need to remind you, of course, of the need for top speed on this Project Levitation—” “Tm going fishing,” coming along or not?” “I'm coming. I can get the loan of a said Mart. “You cabin on the best trout stream the other — side of Fulton’s Fish Market. When will you be ready?” “Tl have to rent some gear. If you know a good place, I can be ready in an hour and we can pick it up on the way.” “Tl have to check my own gear, provided Judith hasn’t thrown it out in the last three years since I used it. It’s about a two hundred mile drive. We can make it by midnight.” Mart and Berk had done a good deal of fishing together one summer following their Junior year. They had spent much of that year and all of the summer settling the (E(0) GOmicbooks See eo =