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had been postulated centuries before-by the 2018 Jovian expedition, the last
space flight with Muir engines which was completed on behalf of the West
before that culture's final extinction. The building, by remote control, of
the Bridge on the face of Jupiter itself, easily the most enormous (and in
most other respects the most useless) engineering project ever undertaken by
man, had made possible direct, close measurements of Jupiter's magnetic field.
The measurements provided final confirmation of the Blackett-Dirac equations.
which as early as 1948 had proposed a direct relationship between magnetism,
gravitation, and the rate of spin of any mass.
Up to that time, nothing had been done with the Blackett-Dirac hypothesis,
-which remained a toy of pure mathematicians. Then, abruptly, the hypothesis
and the mathematicians had their first innings; From the many pages of symbols
and the mumbled discussions of the possible field-strength of a single
electronic pole in rotation, the DillonWagonner grávitron polarity
generator-almost immediately dubbed the "spindizzy" in honor of what it did-
to electron rotation-sprang as if full-born. The overdrive, the meteor screen,
and antigravity had all arrived in one compact package labeled "G 2(PC/BU)2."
Every culture has -its characteristic mathematic, in which its toriographers
can see its inevitable social form. This expression, couched in the algebra of
the Magian culture, pointing toward the matrix mechanics of the new Nomad Era,
remained essentially a Western discovery. At first its
major significance Seemed to lie in the fact that it was rooted in a variation
of the value of C, the velocity of light, as a limit. The West used the
spindizzy to scatter the nearby stars with colonists during the last fifty
years of its existence; but even then, it did not realize the power of the
weapon that it held in its faltering hands. Essentially, the West never found
out that the spindizzy could lift anything, as well as protect it and drive it
faster than light.
In the succeeding centuries, the whole concept of space flight was almost
forgotten. The new culture on Earth, that narrow planar despotism called by
historiographers the Bureaucratic State, did not think that way. Space flight
had been a natural, if late, outcome of Western thought patterns, which had
always been ambitious for the infinite. The Soviets, however, were opposed so
bitterly to the very idea that they would not even allow their fiction writers
to mention it. Where the West had soared from the rock of Earth like a
sequoia, the Soviets spread like lichens over the planet, tightening their
grip, satisfied to be
- at the bases of the pillars of sunlight the West had sought to ascend.
This was the way the Bureaucratic State had been born and had triumphed, and
it was the way it. meant to maintain its holdings. There had never been any
direct military conquest of the West by the Soviets. Indeed, by 2105, the date
usually-~ssigned to the fall of the West, any such battle would have
depopulated the Earth almost overnight. Instead, the West helped conquer
itself, a long and painful process' -which many people foresaw but no one was
able to halt. In its anxiety to prevent infiltration by the, enemy, the West
developed thought controls of its own, which grew ever tighter. In the end,
the two opposing cultures could no longer be told apart-and since the Soviets
had had far more practice at running this kind of monolithic government than
had the West, Soviet leadership became a bloodless fact.
The ban on thinking about space flight extended even to the speculations of
physicists. The omnipresent thought police were instructed in the formulae of
ballistics and other disciplines of astronautics, and could detect such
work-Unearthly Activities, it was called-long before it might have reached the
proving-stand stage.
The thought police, however, could not ban atomic
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