Chapter 21

“Right, the first time. Your deducer is hitting on all eight, as usual. That big beam is hot stuff, and their screens are something to write home about, too.” “How can their rays be any hotter than ours, Dick?” Dorothy asked curiously. “I thought you said we had the very last word in rays.” “I thought we did, but those birds we met back there spoke a couple of later words. They work on an entirely different system than ours do. They generate an extremely short carrier wave, like the Millikan cosmic ray, by recombin…