Amazing Stories: September 1946

                              POWER!  
                        By W. C. Hefferlin 

 CYCLOTRONS-atoms-neutrons-electrons and protons-A space drive? Wild 
fiction today, cold fact tomorrow, and tomorrow may be closer than you 
dream of. It's ready! Now!!

     But are you? Is mankind ready to accept a dream come true? Think 
this one over, "BY YOUR OWN THOUGHTS AND ACTS DO YOU JUSTIFY OR CONDEMN 
YOURSELF, to the Most High God, to all of mankind, to your brothers, to 
all of creation, and to yourself!"

     You within yourself know the answer. Face it! Can we as an image of 
the Highest continue to express our ego in this senseless manner, on and 
on? Yes, History repeats itself and takes three steps ahead and two 
backward.

     Then you would ask and search for that which is before you and has 
always been there from the
beginning? Yes, POWER unlimited, be it spiritual, mental or material. 
And all is movement, nothing is static or without motion. The so-called 
mass of material things is but an illusion. And the space between the 
building structures of things, commonly called atoms and their 
subdivisions called neutrons, protons, electrons, etc., is equal to and 
in proportion to that space which you can see in the sky at night. This 
must be true, for an exact law of nature stands squarely before us, One 
equals One, the Law of Balance, Action and Re-action. The pattern is 
there in the sky above you, in Nature around you. Read it! "As one, so 
is the other!"

     Brutal fact? Very much so, if we are timid and cannot face 
ourselves, much less all of Creation.

     The "A"-bomb is but a shadow of things to come. Nuclear Fission? 
Mere child's play, if we look at the sun! There is Celestial Kinetics to 
the Nth degree. And so-called. "space" is full of vibration or movement 
of stress and strain and pressure.

     So this is too much for you? Not able to take it? WHY! Doesn't your 
education help you? Originally education meant Wisdom and Understanding. 
But from the evidence on hand, what is it now?
     
     Is it a parrot-like repetition of some of the past deeds of man and 
his awkwardness? Or is it a set of building blocks by which we rise to 
new heights? Don't tell me that "What was good enough for pa is good 
enough for me." That attitude of mind is not the pattern written in the 
skies above you, 1ind in Nature around you. Evolution is progressive 
movement, and "a rolling stone gathers no moss" is true. Man uses one-
tenth of his brain, they say. Well, the evidence is certain1y apparent.

     Light and electricity move at approximately 186,000 miles per 
second by man-made measurement. Yet we crawl along barely able to get 
off the ground. Now with our "A"-bomb just with us, we turn our eyes to 
the moon and beyond, and figure on such power to act as a propulsive 
drive for space ships, with all of the dangers of radiation unknown.

     One must duly wonder why it requires so many tons of steel, iron 
and copper, plus quite an
amount of electricity to produce the stream of protons from a cyclotron. 
If we examine the method of procedure of design we find that the 
universal pattern as written in the skies, for example the "spiral 
nebulas," has been followed for expansion, and not for concentration of 
power.

     The "sling-shot" idea, although it works, wastes far too much 
energy, and the losses against and
through the outside walls are far too much. True, the linear accelerator 
as it was used was weak in
comparison.

     Now if we reverse the "sling-shot" idea and concentrate all 
energies 1oward a common focal point
like a "clock-spring," we still retain the sky pattern of the "spiral 
nebula" and have a working
force at the center, with a minimum amount of metals used and far less 
electrical consumption in
comparison to the output.
   
     The linear accelerator was like firing a bullet through a gun 
without the rifting ribs (smooth bore). The bullet turns end over end 
and has little penetration into a mass of wood. But what happens when we 
use rifting ribs in the gun? The bullet is given a twist (spiral action 
again) and it will penetrate a mass harder than itself. Even Nature 
points the way on earth. For example, a fragile straw is driven through 
a tree by a hurricane wind. You can not push a drill through a hard 
mass. But rotate a twist drill even slowly and it will cut its way 
through easily. The law that applies seems to be quite universal in 
nature.

     HOW to make use of this law? Any High School student taking Physics 
will know what is meant when it is pointed out to him. It has been 
written about and in some cases has been demonstrated in the class room. 
Yes, "building blocks" from the past are used. For our purpose we will 
refer you to FIRST PRINCIPLES OF PHYSICS, by Henry S. Carhart and 
Horatio N. Chute, Copyright 1912, Chapter XI, Pages 300 and 301, on 
Electrical Distribution: "The electrical charge of a conductor is 
confined to its outer surface." "The distribution of the charge is, 
therefore, affected by the shape of the conductor, the surface density 
being greater the greater the curvature."

 These laws apply relative to the fact that "High Frequency" electricity 
will leak into the air from either sharp points or sharp edges.

     Now, construct of non-magnetic metal a hollow tube and inside this 
tube insert disks of a non- magnetic metal. These disks are cut or 
stamped so as to give toward the center a multiple number of semi-lune 
(fang) shaped projections, somewhat similar to saw teeth. Now with the 
semi-lunes' pointed ends arranged in such a manner as to cause any High 
Frequency current leakage to leave these ends at a bias to the plane of 
the disk, we have a spiral-pathed discharge area, causing any discharge 
leakage to assume the parallel example of a rifled bullet from a gun.

     Surrounding the hollow tube is wound a secondary coil of wire and 
upon this coil is wound the primary coil. One end of the secondary coil 
is connected to the hollow metal tube, the other end is connected to one 
end of the primary coil. Into the primary coil is fed an alternating 
current of the required cycles per second.

     The resulting spiral discharge in the tube is in the center of the 
strongest magnetic flux field, and under a compression field of many 
types and kinds. Its appearance from the discharge (outlet) end of the 
apparatus is bluish in color, and it is a spiral beam of concentrated 
energy.

     Result? Well, we now have the basis upon which to build a defensive 
weapon for our protection, if needed. Or the means of a "space Drive" 
for space ships. Or a tool for the expansion of our knowledge of 
science.

     From here on it is your choice. The Future is in your hands. And 
the power and speed of lightning is at YOUR HAND!!
 
     POWER! Blasting material destruction! Or "building blocks" for the 
expansion of all mankind!

     "BY YOUR OWN THOUGHTS AND ACTS DO YOU JUSTIFY OR CONDEMN YOURSELF!"

     Rocket or "A"-bombs detected by Radar may be blasted with the speed 
of lightning from the skies by this tool, called by us "Number Three."

     From this tool emerges far more than just a color. And if we should 
pass any element into the opposite end of the center tube, what then?

ATOMIC DISINTEGRATION!!

     The Law of Action and Reaction (recoil) applies for a space drive. 
We have known of this since 1926. We, as custodians, give this to you.

     It is yours, now. What are you going to do with it? Build or 
destroy? God help you!

                                                                             
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