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powers Mall could wield he had known he would lose, even with Danny s belated
help.
For that matter, he had known that Mall was one of the key men of the PRS. He
had walked into the trap the PRS had set all the same, knowing that he might
fall before the man whom he had despised and watched for nearly three years in
theFood Chronicler office.
If Sean were dead, he had died in the expectation that Danny would be able to
beat Mall and the PRS by himself. He had named Danny the King of Eagles.
And if he were not dead though Danny knew that he was he would expect Danny
to go after Todd, and waste no time trying to extricate Sean from a situation
Sean had chosen for himself.
Most important of all, he had given Danny an instrumentality which was
capable of dealing with the entire problem if Danny used it properly. Up to
now, the best uses of the resonator had depended upon its employment to
restrict the psi powers. There was no question but that it could also be used
to amplify them greatly and that it was going to have to be used that way
before this night was over. Until further notice, however, Danny was going to
continue to use it in the way he knew best. In this house of all houses, to be
psychically invisible was the best of all possible advantages.
He peered out into the corridor. It was empty, though there was murmuring
going on behind a closed door on the other side.
Danny padded along it, looking for the steps to the garret. At a turn at the
end of the corridor he ran upon them, just as he had remembered them.
Except that there were far too many of them.
The steps were as distorted as if seen on the surface of a sphere, and they
seemed to turn away from each other in every direction. Phantom staircases
spiraled into nothingness from each successive riser; farther aloft, there was
nothing but a static haze, dimly marked with innumerable shadows and curved
planes.
Something strange was going on upstairs. It did not look as though a man
could walk up those treads and expect to reach the top.
Todd was up there. But where up there might be was anybody s guess. Here,
at last, was a department in which experience counted: the Brotherhood knew
enough about the psi forces to do technical tricks with them, while Danny,
regardless of how great his native abilities might be, was still a tyro and,
since he lacked the basic technical knowledge of a Todd, he had neither tools
nor clues for tackling the mystery.
But wait a minute. He could at least attempt to borrow Todd s brains. The
parapsychologist had found the basic PK equation to be identical with a
formula well known to ordinary physics: a thing called the Blackett equation,
unfamiliar to Danny but apparently not at all esoteric to scientists. And
toward the end of the research which the thugs had interrupted, he had been
seeking a master formula which would cover both PK and ESP
And the Blackett equation had contained an uncertainty correction.
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Hastily Danny rummaged in the incredible lumber-room of his memory for the
relevant material, which he was sure should be there, filed under
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. After a second he had it, along with
the entire page of Korzybski s Science and Sanity on which he had encountered
it during his library session. The main formula read:
pq-qp = h/2pii(l)
where, the visualized text said, h represents the Planck constant, q the
generalized coordinate, p the momentum, 1 stands for the unit matrix, andpi
and i have the usual meaning.
That was just great. It certainly seemed to have nothing to do with the
multifoliate staircase before him; but, apparently incomprehensible though it
was, he had no other tool to use. Todd had once credited him with a good grasp
of elementary physics now it was up to Danny to prove it.
Grimly he buckled down, his thoughts sliding easily into the blurringly high
speed which he had first mastered so long ago in the apartment before he had
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powers Mall could wield he had known he would lose, even with Danny s belated
help.
For that matter, he had known that Mall was one of the key men of the PRS. He
had walked into the trap the PRS had set all the same, knowing that he might
fall before the man whom he had despised and watched for nearly three years in
theFood Chronicler office.
If Sean were dead, he had died in the expectation that Danny would be able to
beat Mall and the PRS by himself. He had named Danny the King of Eagles.
And if he were not dead though Danny knew that he was he would expect Danny
to go after Todd, and waste no time trying to extricate Sean from a situation
Sean had chosen for himself.
Most important of all, he had given Danny an instrumentality which was
capable of dealing with the entire problem if Danny used it properly. Up to
now, the best uses of the resonator had depended upon its employment to
restrict the psi powers. There was no question but that it could also be used
to amplify them greatly and that it was going to have to be used that way
before this night was over. Until further notice, however, Danny was going to
continue to use it in the way he knew best. In this house of all houses, to be
psychically invisible was the best of all possible advantages.
He peered out into the corridor. It was empty, though there was murmuring
going on behind a closed door on the other side.
Danny padded along it, looking for the steps to the garret. At a turn at the
end of the corridor he ran upon them, just as he had remembered them.
Except that there were far too many of them.
The steps were as distorted as if seen on the surface of a sphere, and they
seemed to turn away from each other in every direction. Phantom staircases
spiraled into nothingness from each successive riser; farther aloft, there was
nothing but a static haze, dimly marked with innumerable shadows and curved
planes.
Something strange was going on upstairs. It did not look as though a man
could walk up those treads and expect to reach the top.
Todd was up there. But where up there might be was anybody s guess. Here,
at last, was a department in which experience counted: the Brotherhood knew
enough about the psi forces to do technical tricks with them, while Danny,
regardless of how great his native abilities might be, was still a tyro and,
since he lacked the basic technical knowledge of a Todd, he had neither tools
nor clues for tackling the mystery.
But wait a minute. He could at least attempt to borrow Todd s brains. The
parapsychologist had found the basic PK equation to be identical with a
formula well known to ordinary physics: a thing called the Blackett equation,
unfamiliar to Danny but apparently not at all esoteric to scientists. And
toward the end of the research which the thugs had interrupted, he had been
seeking a master formula which would cover both PK and ESP
And the Blackett equation had contained an uncertainty correction.
Page 97
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Hastily Danny rummaged in the incredible lumber-room of his memory for the
relevant material, which he was sure should be there, filed under
Heisenberg Principle of Indeterminacy. After a second he had it, along with
the entire page of Korzybski s Science and Sanity on which he had encountered
it during his library session. The main formula read:
pq-qp = h/2pii(l)
where, the visualized text said, h represents the Planck constant, q the
generalized coordinate, p the momentum, 1 stands for the unit matrix, andpi
and i have the usual meaning.
That was just great. It certainly seemed to have nothing to do with the
multifoliate staircase before him; but, apparently incomprehensible though it
was, he had no other tool to use. Todd had once credited him with a good grasp
of elementary physics now it was up to Danny to prove it.
Grimly he buckled down, his thoughts sliding easily into the blurringly high
speed which he had first mastered so long ago in the apartment before he had
called Todd back. The left-hand side of the equation, then, could be [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]