INNISON AND HAENDL hunched at the thunderclap as air rushed in to replace him.
“We’ve got what you wanted,” Haendl said harshly. “Let’s read some instruments.”
Throughout the Translation, high-tensile magnetic tape on a madly spinning drum had been hurtling under twenty-four recording heads at a hundred feet a second. Output to the recording heads had been from every kind of measuring device they had been able to conceive and build, all loaded on the helicopter for use on Mount Everest—all now pointed directly at Glenn Tropile.
They had, for the instant of Translation, readings from one microsecond to the next on the varying electric, gravitational, magnetic, radiant and molecular-state conditions in his vicinity.
They got back to Innison’s workshop, and the laboratory inside it, in le
