“Amazing Stories Quarterly,” Vol. 1, No. 3 (Summer 1928). Cover art by Frank R. Paul for the story “Out of the Sub-Universe” by R. F. Starzl.
“Everything in this world is relative, with or without Einstein. Even time is relative. As Benjamin Franklin pointed out, the Ephemerid fly lives only twenty-four hours; yet leads a normal existence. During those twenty-four hours, it lives a full-time life, which, to the fly is of the same duration as a 60- to 70-year-old life led by the human being. So too is it with a microbe or microbe organism, which lives only a few minutes and then dies. These few minutes constitute a normal cycle. It simply lives much more quickly, although it does not realize it.
“You can conversely imagine a race of super-beings on some other planet, which normally would live perhaps 10,000 years, as computed according to our time. To them our few years of allotted life would be incomprehensible.
“Here is a charming story which contains excellent science and will make you understand a great deal about the atomic world, if you do not know it already. Also, it contains that most elusive jewel, -- the surprise ending.”
Premise of “Out of the Sub-Universe:” Scientists have found that certain harmonics of the cosmic ray, when enormously amplified, have the property of reducing or increasing the mass and volume of all matter, without changing its form.
“Amazing Stories Quarterly,” Vol. 1, No. 3 (Summer 1928). Cover art by Frank R. Paul for the story “Out of the Sub-Universe” by R. F. Starzl.
“Everything in this world is relative, with or without Einstein. Even time is relative. As Benjamin Franklin pointed out, the Ephemerid fly lives only twenty-four hours; yet leads a normal existence. During those twenty-four hours, it lives a full-time life, which, to the fly is of the same duration as a 60- to 70-year-old life led by the human being. So too is it with a microbe or microbe organism, which lives only a few minutes and then dies. These few minutes constitute a normal cycle. It simply lives much more quickly, although it does not realize it.
“You can conversely imagine a race of super-beings on some other planet, which normally would live perhaps 10,000 years, as computed according to our time. To them our few years of allotted life would be incomprehensible.
“Here is a charming story which contains excellent science and will make you understand a great deal about the atomic world, if you do not know it already. Also, it contains that most elusive jewel, -- the surprise ending.”
Premise of “Out of the Sub-Universe:” Scientists have found that certain harmonics of the cosmic ray, when enormously amplified, have the property of reducing or increasing the mass and volume of all matter, without changing its form.