"C M Kornbluth - Gomez" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kornbluth C M)

"I got it in shape to finish. The hard part it is over." He rolled out of bed.

"Hey!" I said.

"I'm okay now," he grinned. "Don't write this down in your history, Beel. Everybody will think I act like a
woman."

I followed him into his work room, where he flopped into an easy



chair, his eyes on a blackboard covered with figures. He wasn't grinning any more.

"Dr. Mines says you're up to something big," I said.

"Si. Big."

"Unified field theory, he says."

"That is it," Gomez said.

"Is it good or bad?" I asked, licking my lips. "The application, I mean."

His boyish mouth set suddenly in a grim line. "That, it is not my business," he said. "I am American citizen
of the United States." He stared at the blackboard and its maze of notes.

I looked at it too-really looked at it for once-and was surprised by what I saw. Mathematics, of course,
I don't know. But I had soaked up a very little about mathematics. One of the things I had soaked up
was that the expressions of higher mathematics tend to be complicated and elaborate, involving English,
Greek, and Hebrew letters, plain and fancy brackets, and a great variety of special signs besides the plus
and minus of the elementary school.

The things on the blackboard weren't like that at all. The board was covered with variations of a simple
expression that consisted of five letters and two symbols: a right-handed pothook and a left-handed
pothook.

"What do they mean?" I asked, pointing.

"Somethings I made up," he said nervously. "The word for that one is 'enfields.' The other one is 'is
enfielded by.'"

"What's that mean?"

His luminous eyes were haunted. He didn't answer.

"It looks like simple stuff. I read somewhere that all the basic stuff is simple once it's been discovered."

"Yes," he said almost inaudibly. "It is simple, Beel. Too damn simple, I think. Better I carry it in my head,
I think." He strode to the blackboard and erased it. Instinctively I half-rose to stop him. He gave me a