Nobody could deny the operability of the tunnel diode. Project Tunnel was a serious attempt to employ the tunnel effect in gross matter.
The terminal rocket mentioned by Paul Wallach carried the equipment needed to establish the voltage bias between Venus and the Earth. Once established, Project Tunnel was in a state that caused it to maroon the most wonderful girl in the world.
Since the latter statement is my own personal opinion, my pace from the office to the laboratory was almost a dead run.
The laboratory was a madhouse. People stood in little knots, arguing. Those who weren't talking were shaking their heads in violent negation.
The only one who appeared un-upset was Teresa Dwight, our psi-girl. And here I must confess an error. When I said that Paul Wallach and I were the only ones without a string of professorial degrees, I missed Teresa Dwight. I must be forgiven. Teresa had a completely bland personality, zero drive, and a completely unstartling appearance. Teresa was only fourteen. But she'd discovered that her psi-power could get her anything she really wanted. Being human, therefore, she did not want much. So forgive me for passing her by.
But now I had to notice her. As I came in, she looked up and said, "Harla wants to know why can't he just try."
Wallach went white. "Tell that Venusian thing 'NO!' as loud as you can."
Teresa concentrated, then asked, "But why?"
"Does this Harla understand the Heisenberg Effect?"