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diff --git a/32347.txt b/32347.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0225c80 --- /dev/null +++ b/32347.txt @@ -0,0 +1,636 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Time Fuze, by Gordon Randall Garrett + +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: Time Fuze + +Author: Gordon Randall Garrett + +Illustrator: Paul Orban + +Release Date: May 12, 2010 [EBook #32347] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TIME FUZE *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, Diane Monico, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + + +_The ultradrive had just one slight drawback: it set up a shock wave +that made suns explode. Which made the problem of getting back home a +delicate one indeed...._ + +[Illustration] + + + + +Time +Fuze + +By Randall Garrett + +Illustrated by Paul Orban + + +Commander Benedict kept his eyes on the rear plate as he activated the +intercom. "All right, cut the power. We ought to be safe enough here." + +As he released the intercom, Dr. Leicher, of the astronomical staff, +stepped up to his side. "Perfectly safe," he nodded, "although even at +this distance a star going nova ought to be quite a display." + +Benedict didn't shift his gaze from the plate. "Do you have your +instruments set up?" + +"Not quite. But we have plenty of time. The light won't reach us for +several hours yet. Remember, we were outracing it at ten lights." + +The commander finally turned, slowly letting his breath out in a soft +sigh. "Dr. Leicher, I would say that this is just about the foulest +coincidence that could happen to the first interstellar vessel ever to +leave the Solar System." + +Leicher shrugged. "In one way of thinking, yes. It is certainly true +that we will never know, now, whether Alpha Centauri A ever had any +planets. But, in another way, it is extremely fortunate that we should +be so near a stellar explosion because of the wealth of scientific +information we can obtain. As you say, it is a coincidence, and +probably one that happens only once in a billion years. The chances of +any particular star going nova are small. That we should be so close +when it happens is of a vanishingly small order of probability." + +Commander Benedict took off his cap and looked at the damp stain in the +sweatband. "Nevertheless, Doctor, it is damned unnerving to come out of +ultradrive a couple of hundred million miles from the first star ever +visited by man and have to turn tail and run because the damned thing +practically blows up in your face." + +Leicher could see that Benedict was upset; he rarely used the same +profanity twice in one sentence. + +They had been downright lucky, at that. If Leicher hadn't seen the star +begin to swell and brighten, if he hadn't known what it meant, or if +Commander Benedict hadn't been quick enough in shifting the ship back +into ultradrive--Leicher had a vision of an incandescent cloud of +gaseous metal that had once been a spaceship. + +The intercom buzzed. The commander answered, "Yes?" + +"Sir, would you tell Dr. Leicher that we have everything set up now?" + +Leicher nodded and turned to leave. "I guess we have nothing to do now +but wait." + +When the light from the nova did come, Commander Benedict was back at +the plate again--the forward one, this time, since the ship had been +turned around in order to align the astronomy lab in the nose with the +star. + +Alpha Centauri A began to brighten and spread. It made Benedict think +of a light bulb connected through a rheostat, with someone turning that +rheostat, turning it until the circuit was well overloaded. + +The light began to hurt Benedict's eyes even at that distance and he +had to cut down the receptivity in order to watch. After a while, he +turned away from the plate. Not because the show was over, but simply +because it had slowed to a point beyond which no change seemed to take +place to the human eye. + +Five weeks later, much to Leicher's chagrin, Commander Benedict +announced that they had to leave the vicinity. The ship had only been +provisioned to go to Alpha Centauri, scout the system without landing +on any of the planets, and return. At ten lights, top speed for the +ultradrive, it would take better than three months to get back. + +"I know you'd like to watch it go through the complete cycle," Benedict +said, "but we can't go back home as a bunch of starved skeletons." + +Leicher resigned himself to the necessity of leaving much of his work +unfinished, and, although he knew it was a case of sour grapes, +consoled himself with the thought that he could as least get most of +the remaining information from the five-hundred-inch telescope on Luna, +four years from then. + +As the ship slipped into the not-quite-space through which the +ultradrive propelled it, Leicher began to consolidate the material he +had already gathered. + + * * * * * + +Commander Benedict wrote in the log: + +_Fifty-four days out from Sol. Alpha Centauri has long since faded back +into its pre-blowup state, since we have far outdistanced the light +from its explosion. It now looks as it did two years ago. It_-- + +"Pardon me, Commander," Leicher interrupted, "But I have something +interesting to show you." + +Benedict took his fingers off the keys and turned around in his chair. +"What is it, Doctor?" + +Leicher frowned at the papers in his hands. "I've been doing some work +on the probability of that explosion happening just as it did, and I've +come up with some rather frightening figures. As I said before, the +probability was small. A little calculation has given us some +information which makes it even smaller. For instance: with a possible +error of plus or minus two seconds Alpha Centauri A began to explode +the instant we came out of ultradrive! + +"Now, the probability of that occurring comes out so small that it +should happen only once in ten to the four hundred sixty-seventh +seconds." + +It was Commander Benedict's turn to frown. "So?" + +"Commander, the entire universe is only about ten to the seventeenth +seconds old. But to give you an idea, let's say that the chances of its +happening are _once_ in millions of trillions of years!" + +Benedict blinked. The number, he realized, was totally beyond his +comprehension--or anyone else's. + +"Well, so what? Now it has happened that one time. That simply means +that it will almost certainly never happen again!" + +"True. But, Commander, when you buck odds like that and win, the thing +to do is look for some factor that is cheating in your favor. If you +took a pair of dice and started throwing sevens, one right after +another--_for the next couple of thousand years_--you'd begin to +suspect they were loaded." + +Benedict said nothing; he just waited expectantly. + +"There is only one thing that could have done it. Our ship." Leicher +said it quietly, without emphasis. + +"What we know about the hyperspace, or superspace, or whatever it is we +move through in ultradrive is almost nothing. Coming out of it so near +to a star might set up some sort of shock wave in normal space which +would completely disrupt that star's internal balance, resulting in the +liberation of unimaginably vast amounts of energy, causing that star to +go nova. We can only assume that we ourselves were the fuze that set +off that nova." + +Benedict stood up slowly. When he spoke, his voice was a choking +whisper. "You mean the sun--Sol--might...." + +Leicher nodded. "I don't say that it definitely would. But the +probability is that we were the cause of the destruction of Alpha +Centauri A, and therefore might cause the destruction of Sol in the +same way." + +Benedict's voice was steady again. "That means that we can't go back +again, doesn't it? Even if we're not positive, we can't take the +chance." + +"Not necessarily. We can get fairly close before we cut out the drive, +and come in the rest of the way at sub-light speed. It'll take longer, +and we'll have to go on half or one-third rations, but we _can_ do it!" + +"How far away?" + +"I don't know what the minimum distance is, but I do know how we can +gage a distance. Remember, neither Alpha Centauri B or C were +detonated. We'll have to cut our drive at least as far away from Sol +as they are from A." + +"I see." The commander was silent for a moment, then: "Very well, Dr. +Leicher. If that's the safest way, that's the only way." + +Benedict issued the orders, while Leicher figured the exact point at +which they must cut out the drive, and how long the trip would take. +The rations would have to be cut down accordingly. + +Commander Benedict's mind whirled around the monstrousness of the whole +thing like some dizzy bee around a flower. What if there had been +planets around Centauri A? What if they had been inhabited? Had he, all +unwittingly, killed entire races of living, intelligent beings? + +But, how could he have known? The drive had never been tested before. +It couldn't be tested inside the Solar System--it was too fast. He and +his crew had been volunteers, knowing that they might die when the +drive went on. + +Suddenly, Benedict gasped and slammed his fist down on the desk before +him. + +Leicher looked up. "What's the matter, Commander?" + +"Suppose," came the answer, "Just suppose, that we have the same +effect on a star when we _go into_ ultradrive as we do when we come +out of it?" + +Leicher was silent for a moment, stunned by the possibility. There was +nothing to say, anyway. They could only wait.... + + * * * * * + +A little more than half a light year from Sol, when the ship reached +the point where its occupants could see the light that had left their +home sun more than seven months before, they watched it become +suddenly, horribly brighter. _A hundred thousand times brighter!_ + +... THE END + + + + * * * * * + +Transcriber's Note + +This etext was produced from _IF Worlds of Science Fiction_, +March 1954. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence +that the U. S. 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