Explore "The Wellsprings of Space" by Albert Teichner on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Like oases in the desert, they / were spaced through the universe / to replenish the electron-thirst / of the giant ships. But Old / Huddleston had seen the problem: / What kind of currency / serves to buy matter from...
The three top scientists had come to describe their greatest triumph to the revered Huddleston; after centuries of bitter disagreement the world's cosmologists were now unanimous in accepting the newly-proposed Lowen-Crane-and-Fitzhugh Hypothesis. At three hundred Huddleston was doddering toward death but the great man certainly deserved to know in his more lucid moments that the problems he had outlined long ago were finally solved. He had been the first to prophesy that all parsec journeys to the stars must fail because each spaceship would steadily lose electrons to the weak magnetic field of the galaxy. The few weakened shells that had managed to limp back into the solar system had proven his point.