ith it," Colonel Handrosan stated
flatly. "He and his wife were in their apartment, packing to move out,
when it started. Somebody called him and told him about the fighting at
the stadium, and he went there at once to talk his students into
dispersing. By that time, the situation was completely out of hand; he
could do nothing with the students.

"Well, I think we ought to find out, first of all, why Professor Faress
was dismissed," Prince Travann said. "It will take a good deal to
convince me that any teacher able to inspire such loyalty in his
students is a bad teacher, or deserves dismissal."

"As I understand," Paul said, "the dismissal was the result of a
disagreement between Professor Faress and Professor Dandrik about an
experiment on which they were working. I believe, an experiment to fix
more exactly the velocity of accelerated subnucleonic particles. Beta
micropositos, wasn't it, Chancellor Khane?"

Khane looked at him in surprise. "Your Majesty, I know nothing about
that. Professor Dandrik is head of the physics department; he came to
me, about six months ago, and told me that in his opinion this
experiment was desirable. I simply deferred to his judgment and
authorized it."

"Your Majesty has just stated the purpose of the experiment," Dandrik
said. "For centuries, there have been inaccuracies in mathematical
descriptions of subnucleonic events, and this experiment was undertaken
in the hope of eliminating these inaccuracies." He went into a lengthy
mathematical explanation.

"Yes, I understand that, professor. But just what was the actual
experiment, in terms of physical operations?"

* * * * *

Dandrik looked helpless for a moment. Faress, who had been choking back
a laugh, interrupted:

"Your Majesty, we were using the big turbo-linear accelerator to project
fast micropositos down an evacuated tube one kilometer in length, and
clocking them with light, the velocity of which has been established
almost absolutely. I will say that with respect to the light, there were
no observable inaccuracies at any time, and until the micropositos were
accelerated to 16.067543333-1/3 times light-speed, they registered much
as expected. Beyond that velocity, however, the target for the
micropositos began registering impacts before the source registered
emission, although the light target was still registering normally. I
notified Professor Dandrik about this, and----"

"You not