With its insistent vibration, Rick’s mobile threatened to work its way off the edge of his coffee table and drop to the floor. In time to catch the call before the caller rang off and to prevent the lemming-like plunge of the phone, he read the name ESME on the display.
“Hi! How’re you doing?”
“Fine. Yourself?”
“At a bit of a loose end to tell the truth,” Rick replied, “I’ve finished my physics research and Prof Robin’s been over here.”
“Ah, yes? So what’s new?”
Rick launched into a detailed explanation of everything he had discovered and outlined his theory of quantistic transportation.
“Cosmic loops? Is the Professor taking this seriously?”
“Without a shadow of doubt. I hope he’s working on it right now. Quite rightly, he’s very excited.”
“I should think he is! I never thought my
