At first there was nothing, no sensation at all, just the weight of the metal as it rested against his skull. On the panel before him a red lamp flashed, the normal signal that registration had been completed, but he ignored it, concentrating on the new-found energy surging through his brain.
The problem was basically a simple one. The helmets were designed to copy and transfer the normal electric-potential of a human mind, the intangible web of electric current that was thought and memory. His own mind operated on a different level than that of other men. A higher frequency perhaps, or, to use an analogy, the helmet could be likened to an ordinary radio receiver trying to operate on high frequency modulation. It couldn’t be done.
Deliberately he closed off a portion of his mind, the hit
