“Well, what happened?” asked Lane.
“You tell me,” Downing said.
“Obviously something gave—but quick,” remarked Billy. “The question is: What could give?”
“The star didn’t. We weren’t on the planet. Whatever gave—we are a long way from where we started, at any rate.” Hendricks scratched his head in puzzlement. “You don’t suppose we have gone and warped ourselves right out of space, do you?”
“That sounds like a comic book plot. I’m not taking any odds-on bets, though. Have you got an air condenser and a resistance-capacity bridge? Not the kind that compares a standard condenser against the unknown in terms of the resistance ratio arms, but one of the cheap varieties that merely compares the resistance ratio arms against the ratio of resistance versus capacitive reactance.”
“Uh-huh.”
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