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diff --git a/23153.txt b/23153.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f88c26f --- /dev/null +++ b/23153.txt @@ -0,0 +1,900 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Big Bounce, by Walter S. Tevis, +Illustrated by Johnson + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: The Big Bounce + + +Author: Walter S. Tevis + + + +Release Date: October 23, 2007 [eBook #23153] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BIG BOUNCE*** + + +E-text prepared by Greg Weeks, Jacqueline Jeremy, and the Project +Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) + + + +Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this + file which includes the original illustration. + See 23153-h.htm or 23153-h.zip: + (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/3/1/5/23153/23153-h/23153-h.htm) + or + (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/3/1/5/23153/23153-h.zip) + + + + + +THE BIG BOUNCE + +by + +WALTER S. TEVIS + +_Seeing it in action, anybody would quaver in +alarm: What hath Farnsworth overwrought?_ + +Illustrated by Johnson + + + + + + + +"Let me show you something," Farnsworth said. He set his near-empty +drink--a Bacardi martini--on the mantel and waddled out of the room +toward the basement. + +I sat in my big leather chair, feeling very peaceful with the world, +watching the fire. Whatever Farnsworth would have to show to-night +would be far more entertaining than watching T.V.--my custom on other +evenings. Farnsworth, with his four labs in the house and his very +tricky mind, never failed to provide my best night of the week. + +When he returned, after a moment, he had with him a small box, about +three inches square. He held this carefully in one hand and stood by +the fireplace dramatically--or as dramatically as a very small, very +fat man with pink cheeks can stand by a fireplace of the sort that +seems to demand a big man with tweeds, pipe and, perhaps, a saber +wound. + +Anyway, he held the box dramatically and he said, "Last week, I was +playing around in the chem lab, trying to make a new kind of rubber +eraser. Did quite well with the other drafting equipment, you know, +especially the dimensional curve and the photosensitive ink. Well, I +approached the job by trying for a material that would absorb graphite +without abrading paper." + +I was a little disappointed with this; it sounded pretty tame. But I +said, "How did it come out?" + + * * * * * + +He screwed his pudgy face up thoughtfully. "Synthesized the material, +all right, and it seems to work, but the interesting thing is that it +has a certain--ah--secondary property that would make it quite awkward +to use. Interesting property, though. Unique, I am inclined to +believe." + +This began to sound more like it. "And what property is that?" I +poured myself a shot of straight rum from the bottle sitting on the +table beside me. I did not like straight rum, but I preferred it to +Farnsworth's rather imaginative cocktails. + +"I'll show you, John," he said. He opened the box and I could see that +it was packed with some kind of batting. He fished in this and +withdrew a gray ball about the size of a golfball and set the box on +the mantel. + +"And that's the--eraser?" I asked. + +"Yes," he said. Then he squatted down, held the ball about a half-inch +from the floor, dropped it. + +It bounced, naturally enough. Then it bounced again. And again. Only +this was not natural, for on the second bounce the ball went higher in +the air than on the first, and on the third bounce higher still. After +a half minute, my eyes were bugging out and the little ball was +bouncing four feet in the air and going higher each time. + +I grabbed my glass. "What the hell!" I said. + +Farnsworth caught the ball in a pudgy hand and held it. He was smiling +a little sheepishly. "Interesting effect, isn't it?" + +"Now wait a minute," I said, beginning to think about it. "What's the +gimmick? What kind of motor do you have in that thing?" + +His eyes were wide and a little hurt. "No gimmick, John. None at all. +Just a very peculiar molecular structure." + +"Structure!" I said. "Bouncing balls just don't pick up energy out of +nowhere, I don't care how their molecules are put together. And you +don't get energy out without putting energy in." + +"Oh," he said, "that's the really interesting thing. Of course you're +right; energy _does_ go into the ball. Here, I'll show you." + +He let the ball drop again and it began bouncing, higher and higher, +until it was hitting the ceiling. Farnsworth reached out to catch it, +but he fumbled and the thing glanced off his hand, hit the mantelpiece +and zipped across the room. It banged into the far wall, richocheted, +banked off three other walls, picking up speed all the time. + +When it whizzed by me like a rifle bullet, I began to get worried, but +it hit against one of the heavy draperies by the window and this +damped its motion enough so that it fell to the floor. + + * * * * * + +It started bouncing again immediately, but Farnsworth scrambled across +the room and grabbed it. He was perspiring a little and he began +instantly to transfer the ball from one hand to another and back again +as if it were hot. + +"Here," he said, and handed it to me. + +I almost dropped it. + +"It's like a ball of ice!" I said. "Have you been keeping it in the +refrigerator?" + +"No. As a matter of fact, it was at room temperature a few minutes +ago." + +"Now wait a minute," I said. "I only teach physics in high school, but +I know better than that. Moving around in warm air doesn't make +anything cold except by evaporation." + +"Well, there's your input and output, John," he said. "The ball lost +heat and took on motion. Simple conversion." + +My jaw must have dropped to my waist. "Do you mean that that little +thing is converting heat to kinetic energy?" + +"Apparently." + +"But that's impossible!" + +He was beginning to smile thoughtfully. The ball was not as cold now +as it had been and I was holding it in my lap. + +"A steam engine does it," he said, "and a steam turbine. Of course, +they're not very efficient." + +"They work mechanically, too, and only because water expands when it +turns to steam." + +"This seems to do it differently," he said, sipping thoughtfully at +his dark-brown martini. "I don't know exactly how--maybe something +piezo-electric about the way its molecules slide about. I ran some +tests--measured its impact energy in foot pounds and compared that +with the heat loss in BTUs. Seemed to be about 98 per cent efficient, +as close as I could tell. Apparently it converts heat into bounce very +well. Interesting, isn't it?" + +"_Interesting?_" I almost came flying out of my chair. My mind was +beginning to spin like crazy. "If you're not pulling my leg with this +thing, Farnsworth, you've got something by the tail there that's just +a little bit bigger than the discovery of fire." + +He blushed modestly. "I'd rather thought that myself," he admitted. + +"Good Lord, look at the heat that's available!" I said, getting really +excited now. + + * * * * * + +Farnsworth was still smiling, very pleased with himself. "I suppose +you could put this thing in a box, with convection fins, and let it +bounce around inside--" + +"I'm way ahead of you," I said. "But that wouldn't work. All your +kinetic energy would go right back to heat, on impact--and eventually +that little ball would build up enough speed to blast its way through +any box you could build." + +"Then how would you work it?" + +"Well," I said, choking down the rest of my rum, "you'd seal the ball +in a big steel cylinder, attach the cylinder to a crankshaft and +flywheel, give the thing a shake to start the ball bouncing back and +forth, and let it run like a gasoline engine or something. It would +get all the heat it needed from the air in a normal room. Mount the +apparatus in your house and it would pump your water, operate a +generator and keep you cool at the same time!" + +I sat down again, shakily, and began pouring myself another drink. + +Farnsworth had taken the ball from me and was carefully putting it +back in its padded box. He was visibly showing excitement, too; I +could see that his cheeks were ruddier and his eyes even brighter than +normal. "But what if you want the cooling and don't have any work to +be done?" + +"Simple," I said. "You just let the machine turn a flywheel or lift +weights and drop them, or something like that, outside your house. You +have an air intake inside. And if, in the winter, you don't want to +lose heat, you just mount the thing in an outside building, attach it +to your generator and use the power to do whatever you want--heat your +house, say. There's plenty of heat in the outside air even in +December." + +"John," said Farnsworth, "you are very ingenious. It might work." + +"Of course it'll work." Pictures were beginning to light up in my +head. "And don't you realize that this is the answer to the solar +power problem? Why, mirrors and selenium are, at best, ten per cent +efficient! Think of big pumping stations on the Sahara! All that heat, +all that need for power, for irrigation!" I paused a moment for +effect. "Farnsworth, this can change the very shape of the Earth!" + +Farnsworth seemed to be lost in thought. Finally he looked at me +strangely and said, "Perhaps we had better try to build a model." + + * * * * * + +I was so excited by the thing that I couldn't sleep that night. I kept +dreaming of power stations, ocean liners, even automobiles, being +operated by balls bouncing back and forth in cylinders. + +I even worked out a spaceship in my mind, a bullet-shaped affair with +a huge rubber ball on its end, gyroscopes to keep it oriented +properly, the ball serving as solution to that biggest of +missile-engineering problems, excess heat. You'd build a huge concrete +launching field, supported all the way down to bedrock, hop in the +ship and start bouncing. Of course it would be kind of a rough +ride.... + +In the morning, I called my superintendent and told him to get a +substitute for the rest of the week; I was going to be busy. + +Then I started working in the machine shop in Farnsworth's basement, +trying to turn out a working model of a device that, by means of a +crankshaft, oleo dampers and a reciprocating cylinder, would pick up +some of that random kinetic energy from the bouncing ball and do +something useful with it, like turning a drive shaft. I was just +working out a convection-and-air pump system for circulating hot air +around the ball when Farnsworth came in. + +He had tucked carefully under his arm a sphere of about the size of a +basketball and, if he had made it to my specifications, weighing +thirty-five pounds. He had a worried frown on his forehead. + +"It looks good," I said. "What's the trouble?" + +"There seems to be a slight hitch," he said. "I've been testing for +conductivity. It seems to be quite low." + +"That's what I'm working on now. It's just a mechanical problem of +pumping enough warm air back to the ball. We can do it with no more +than a twenty per cent efficiency loss. In an engine, that's nothing." + +"Maybe you're right. But this material conducts heat even less than +rubber does." + +"The little ball yesterday didn't seem to have any trouble," I said. + +"Naturally not. It had had plenty of time to warm up before I started +it. And its mass-surface area relationship was pretty low--the larger +you make a sphere, of course, the more mass inside in proportion to +the outside area." + +"You're right, but I think we can whip it. We may have to honeycomb +the ball and have part of the work the machine does operate a big hot +air pump; but we can work it out." + + * * * * * + +All that day, I worked with lathe, milling machine and hacksaw. After +clamping the new big ball securely to a workbench, Farnsworth pitched +in to help me. But we weren't able to finish by nightfall and +Farnsworth turned his spare bedroom over to me for the night. I was +too tired to go home. + +And too tired to sleep soundly, too. Farnsworth lived on the edge of +San Francisco, by a big truck by-pass, and almost all night I wrestled +with the pillow and sheets, listening half-consciously to those heavy +trucks rumbling by, and in my mind, always, that little gray ball, +bouncing and bouncing and bouncing.... + +At daybreak, I came abruptly fully awake with the sound of crashing +echoing in my ears, a battering sound that seemed to come from the +basement. I grabbed my coat and pants, rushed out of the room, almost +knocked over Farnsworth, who was struggling to get his shoes on out in +the hall, and we scrambled down the two flights of stairs together. + +The place was a chaos, battered and bashed equipment everywhere, and +on the floor, overturned against the far wall, the table that the ball +had been clamped to. The ball itself was gone. + +I had not been fully asleep all night, and the sight of that mess, and +what it meant, jolted me immediately awake. Something, probably a +heavy truck, had started a tiny oscillation in that ball. And the ball +had been heavy enough to start the table bouncing with it until, by +dancing that table around the room, it had literally torn the clamp +off and shaken itself free. What had happened afterward was obvious, +with the ball building up velocity with every successive bounce. + +But where was the ball now? + +Suddenly Farnsworth cried out hoarsely, "Look!" and I followed his +outstretched, pudgy finger to where, at one side of the basement, a +window had been broken open--a small window, but plenty big enough for +something the size of a basketball to crash through it. + +There was a little weak light coming from outdoors. And then I saw the +ball. It was in Farnsworth's back yard, bouncing a little sluggishly +on the grass. The grass would damp it, hold it back, until we could +get to it. Unless.... + +I took off up the basement steps like a streak. Just beyond the back +yard, I had caught a glimpse of something that frightened me. A few +yards from where I had seen the ball was the edge of the big six-lane +highway, a broad ribbon of smooth, hard concrete. + +[Illustration] + +I got through the house to the back porch, rushed out and was in the +back yard just in time to see the ball take its first bounce onto +the concrete. I watched it, fascinated, when it hit--after the soft, +energy absorbing turf, the concrete was like a springboard. +Immediately the ball flew high in the air. I was running across the +yard toward it, praying under my breath, _Fall on that grass next +time_. + +It hit before I got to it, and right on the concrete again, and this +time I saw it go straight up at least fifty feet. + + * * * * * + +My mind was suddenly full of thoughts of dragging mattresses from the +house, or making a net or something to stop that hurtling thirty-five +pounds; but I stood where I was, unable to move, and saw it come down +again on the highway. It went up a hundred feet. And down again on the +concrete, about fifteen feet further down the road. In the direction +of the city. + +That time it was two hundred feet, and when it hit again, it made a +thud that you could have heard for a quarter of a mile. I could +practically see it flatten out on the road before it took off upward +again, at twice the speed it had hit at. + +Suddenly generating an idea, I whirled and ran back to Farnsworth's +house. He was standing in the yard now, shivering from the morning +air, looking at me like a little lost and badly scared child. + +"Where are your car keys?" I almost shouted at him. + +"In my pocket." + +"Come on!" + +I took him by the arm and half dragged him to the carport. I got the +keys from him, started the car, and by mangling about seven traffic +laws and three prize rosebushes, managed to get on the highway, facing +in the direction that the ball was heading. + +"Look," I said, trying to drive down the road and search for the ball +at the same time. "It's risky, but if I can get the car under it and +we can hop out in time, it should crash through the roof. That ought +to slow it down enough for us to nab it." + +"But--what about my car?" Farnsworth bleated. + +"What about that first building--or first person--it hits in San +Francisco?" + +"Oh," he said. "Hadn't thought of that." + +I slowed the car and stuck my head out the window. It was lighter now, +but no sign of the ball. "If it happens to get to town--any town, for +that matter--it'll be falling from about ten or twenty miles. Or +forty." + +"Maybe it'll go high enough first so that it'll burn. Like a meteor." + +"No chance," I said. "Built-in cooling system, remember?" + +Farnsworth formed his mouth into an "Oh" and exactly at that moment +there was a resounding _thump_ and I saw the ball hit in a field, +maybe twenty yards from the edge of the road, and take off again. This +time it didn't seem to double its velocity, and I figured the ground +was soft enough to hold it back--but it wasn't slowing down either, +not with a bounce factor of better than two to one. + + * * * * * + +Without watching for it to go up, I drove as quickly as I could off +the road and over--carrying part of a wire fence with me--to where it +had hit. There was no mistaking it; there was a depression about three +feet deep, like a small crater. + +I jumped out of the car and stared up. It took me a few seconds to +spot it, over my head. One side caught by the pale and slanting +morning sunlight, it was only a bright diminishing speck. + +The car motor was running and I waited until the ball disappeared for +a moment and then reappeared. I watched for another couple of seconds +until I felt I could make a decent guess on its direction, hollered at +Farnsworth to get out of the car--it had just occurred to me that +there was no use risking his life, too--dove in and drove a hundred +yards or so to the spot I had anticipated. + +I stuck my head out the window and up. The ball was the size of an egg +now. I adjusted the car's position, jumped out and ran for my life. + +It hit instantly after--about sixty feet from the car. And at the same +time, it occurred to me that what I was trying to do was completely +impossible. Better to hope that the ball hit a pond, or bounced out to +sea, or landed in a sand dune. All we could do would be to follow, and +if it ever was damped down enough, grab it. + +It had hit soft ground and didn't double its height that time, but it +had still gone higher. It was out of sight for almost a lifelong +minute. + +And then--incredibly rotten luck--it came down, with an ear-shattering +thwack, on the concrete highway again. I had seen it hit, and +instantly afterward I saw a crack as wide as a finger open along the +entire width of the road. And the ball had flown back up like a +rocket. + +_My God_, I was thinking, _now it means business. And on the next +bounce...._ + +It seemed like an incredibly long time that we craned our necks, +Farnsworth and I, watching for it to reappear in the sky. And when it +finally did, we could hardly follow it. It whistled like a bomb and we +saw the gray streak come plummeting to Earth almost a quarter of a +mile away from where we were standing. + +But we didn't see it go back up again. + +For a moment, we stared at each other silently. Then Farnsworth almost +whispered, "Perhaps it's landed in a pond." + +"Or in the world's biggest cow-pile," I said. "Come on!" + +We could have met our deaths by rock salt and buckshot that night, if +the farmer who owned that field had been home. We tore up everything +we came to getting across it--including cabbages and rhubarb. But we +had to search for ten minutes, and even then we didn't find the ball. + +What we found was a hole in the ground that could have been a +small-scale meteor crater. It was a good twenty feet deep. But at the +bottom, no ball. + + * * * * * + +I stared wildly at it for a full minute before I focused my eyes +enough to see, at the bottom, a thousand little gray fragments. + +And immediately it came to both of us at the same time. A poor +conductor, the ball had used up all its available heat on that final +impact. Like a golfball that has been dipped in liquid air and +dropped, it had smashed into thin splinters. + +The hole had sloping sides and I scrambled down in it and picked up +one of the pieces, using my handkerchief, folded--there was no telling +just how cold it would be. + +It was the stuff, all right. And colder than an icicle. + +I climbed out. "Let's go home," I said. + +Farnsworth looked at me thoughtfully. Then he sort of cocked his head +to one side and asked, "What do you suppose will happen when those +pieces thaw?" + +I stared at him. I began to think of a thousand tiny slivers whizzing +around erratically, richocheting off buildings, in downtown San +Francisco and in twenty counties, and no matter what they hit, moving +and accelerating as long as there was any heat in the air to give them +energy. + +And then I saw a tool shed, on the other side of the pasture from us. + +But Farnsworth was ahead of me, waddling along, puffing. He got the +shovels out and handed one to me. + +We didn't say a word, neither of us, for hours. It takes a long time +to fill a hole twenty feet deep--especially when you're shoveling +very, very carefully and packing down the dirt very, very hard. + + --WALTER S. TEVIS + + + +----------------------------------------------------+ + |Transcriber's Note: | + | | + |The spelling of "richochet" has been retained as in | + |the original. | + | | + |This etext was produced from Galaxy February 1958. | + |Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that| + |the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed. | + +----------------------------------------------------+ + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BIG BOUNCE*** + + +******* This file should be named 23153.txt or 23153.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/3/1/5/23153 + + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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