Avon Fantasy Reader No. 12 — page 73: what you’re looking at

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crazy. earl explained about his sixteen equations and how readily they interlocked with the electromagnetic integrals, and of how the very simple application of any form of electromagnetic energy would rotate four coordinates. “I wanted her to see the preliminary experiment. J used but little power ou a small field. Just opened a little trap-door into space, so to speak. There is only one explanation for what has happened here. | rotated a portion of a fourth dimension, and left a hole in hyperspace for an instant. Just as if you rotate up a portion of this floor, there will be a hole left. As chance vould have it, just at that moment some inhabitant of hyperspace came along and stumbled into it, and I swung back on him and caught him, “TIere he is, stuck, What we sce and feel is a cross-section of him, a solid cross-section of that part of him that is cut by our three- dimensional space. See! If I stick my finger through this sheet of paper, the two-dimensional inhabitants on its surface will perceive only a circle. At first the nail occupies a portion of its circumference; as I push my finger on through, the nail is gone, and folds and ridges appear and disappear. If my whole hand gocs through, the circle increases greatly in size. If they draw a circle around my finger and try to imprison it, I can withdraw it and stick it through somewhere else, and they cannot understand how it was done-~— “But what about Sheila? Where is she?” Heagey’s face dropped. He had been full of interest and exultation in his problem. The reminder of her was an icy shock. “There is only one possible conclusion,” he went on in a dead voice. _ “The struggles of the fourth-dimensional creature swept her out into hyperspace.” ‘The professor sprang up and walked rapidly out of the room. There was something determined in his stride. He slammed the door. Heagey sat down and thought. Somehow he must rescue Sheila. How could it be done? Should he try the rotation again? He had all the figures and could repeat it accurately. But, that would not be at all certain to get her back. The captured fourth-dimensional creature might gct away. Heagey didn’t want to lose him. Not only that he wanted to study him, but somchow he felt that he must hang on to the only link with that world where Sheila was now lost. The thought of its getting away worried him. Tow could he make sure that it would not escape? He reasoned back to the plane section of a threc-dimensional object. Enclosing it in a circle would do no good. But, if tied tightly with a circle of rope, it might be kept from moving up and down. Analogically, if he could get this thing into some sort of a tight bag, he might feel free to flip his trap-door once more, Ah! then came the brilliant idea! He could sally out into hyperspace and look for Sheila! 71 comichbooks.com