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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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"Decidedly,"
Kendrick
agreed.
"And
the
principle?"
"Quite
simple.
One
of
those,
in
fact,
that
lies
behind
your
researches.
Doubtless
you
would
have
hit
upon
it
yourself
in
time.
Your
own
scientist,
Faraday,
you
may
recall,
held
the
opinion
that
the
various
forms
under
which
the
forces
of
matter
manifest
themselves
have
a
common
origin.
We
of
the
disc,
thanks
to
our
great
Ravv,
have
found
that
common
origin."
It
was
the
origin
of
matter
itself,
Cor
said,
which
lay
in
the
ether
of
interstellar
space--energy,
raw,
cosmic--vibrations,
rays.
By
harnessing
and
controlling
these
various
rays,
his
people
had
been
able
to
accomplish
their
seeming
miracles--miracles
that
the
people
of
earth,
too,
were
beginning
to
achieve--as
in
electricity,
for
instance,
and
its
further
application,
radio.
But
the
people
of
Vada
had
long
since
mastered
such
simple
rays,
and
now,
in
possession
of
vastly
more
powerful
ones,
had
the
elemental
forces
of
the
universe
at
their
disposal.
The
disc
was
propelled
through
space
by
short
rays
of
tremendously
high
frequency,
up
above
the
ultra-violet.
The
same
rays,
directed
downward
instead
of
outward,
enabled
them
to
overcome
the
pull
of
gravity
when
in
a
planet's
influence,
as
at
present.
And
the
escalator
rays,
by
which
they
could
proceed
to
and
from
the
disc,
were
also
of
high
frequency,
as
were
their
invisibility
rays.
"But
you,
Professor,
are
more
interested
in
low
frequency
rays,
the
long
ones
down
below
infra-red,"
continued
Cor.
"You
have
seen
our
development
of
the
heat-dynamo
principle.
It
utilizes,
I
might
add,
not
only
solar
radiation
but
that
of
the
stars
as
well.
There
being
a
billion
and
a
half
of
these
in
the
universe,
many
of
them
a
thousand
times
or
more
as
large
as
your
own
sun,
we
naturally
have
quite
an
efficient
little
heating
plant
here.
It
provides
us
with
our
weapon
of
warfare,
as
well
as
keeping
us
warm.
Permit
me
to
demonstrate."
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