But open a window, imagine one of the windows open.
Well, when all these windows or blinds are shut, no light, no heat, no gravitation, no radiant energy of any sort will get at the inside of the sphere, it will fly on through space in a straight line, as you say. So you see, that except for the thickness of the blind rollers, the Cavorite exterior of the sphere will consist of windows or blinds, whichever you like to call them. These can easily be worked by springs, and released and checked by electricity conveyed by platinum wires fused through the glass. The inner glass sphere can be air-tight, and, except for the manhole, continuous, and the steel sphere can be made in sections, each section capable of rolling up after the fashion of a roller blind. The air above the Cavorite was forced upward violently, the air that rushed in to replace it immediately lost weight, ceased to exert any pressure, followed suit, blew the ceiling through and the roof off. Ah! you begin to see! The air all about the Cavorite crushed in upon the air above it with irresistible force.
You see, over our Cavorite this ceased to be the case, the air there ceased to exert any pressure, and the air round it and not over the Cavorite was exerting a pressure of fourteen pounds and a half to the square in upon this suddenly weightless air. " Only this shows you how useless knowledge is unless you apply it. I suppose you know - everybody knows nowadays - that, as a usual thing, the air has weight, that it presses on everything at the surface of the earth, presses in all directions, with a pressure of fourteen and a half pounds to the square inch? " "Well, so soon as it reached a temperature of 60 Fahr, and the process of its manufacture was complete, the air above it, the portions of roof and ceiling and floor above it ceased to have weight. "You are quite clear that the stuff is opaque to gravitation, that it cuts off things from gravitating towards each other? " And the premature birth of his invention took place just as he was coming across the field to my bungalow for our afternoon talk and tea. Consequently Gibbs ceased to replenish the furnace, and no one else did so, and Cavor was too much immersed in certain interesting problems concerning a Cavorite flying machine (neglecting the resistance of the air and one or two other points) to perceive that anything was wrong. But Spargus insisted on Gibbs doing the coaling, seeing that he was a joiner and that coal is notoriously fossil wood. Gibbs, who had previously seen to this, had suddenly attempted to shift it to the man who had been a gardener, on the score that coal was soil, being dug, and therefore could not possibly fall within the province of a joiner the man who had been a jobbing gardener alleged, however, that coal was a metallic or ore-like substance, let alone that he was cook. But it chanced that, unknown to Cavor, dissension had arisen about the furnace tending. Unless he had miscalculated, the last stage in the combination would occur when the stuff sank to a temperature of 60 Fahr. He had fused together a number of metals and certain other things - I wish I knew the particulars now ! - and he intended to leave the mixture a week and then allow it to cool slowly. Oddly enough, it was made at last by accident, when Mr. On the 14th of October, 1899, this incredible substance was made! The creation of an antigravity metal was somewhat unexpected, and therefore created quite a stir.
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