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If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: Nothing - -Author: Martin Pearson - -Illustrator: John B. Musacchia - -Release Date: October 12, 2022 [eBook #69139] - -Language: English - -Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed - Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTHING *** - - - - - - NOTHING - - By Martin Pearson - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Astonishing Stories, October 1942. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -The little man with the gray beard stared at me and I stared back at -him. "This is getting us nowhere," I remarked, "nowhere at all." - -He nodded and sat down on the hard stone. We were trapped under the -building. The house had come down over us when the bomb landed in the -street. The rest of the tenants were probably away or dead. Apparently -only the little old man who lived on the second floor rear and I had -gotten down to the bomb-proof cellar in time. And now we were trapped. - -"We'll have to wait until they dig us out," I said. We couldn't -possibly dig our own way out. Too much blocked us in. We were buried -beneath tons of brick, rubbish and beams. They were probably busy in -the street outside, trying to rescue the people in other, less-damaged -buildings. Then again there might be fire, and the noise effectively -blocked any chance of their hearing us. - -I saw him only by the light of my little pocket flash. That wouldn't -last very long. Our space was remarkably limited. This shelter had been -a part of the cellar. It had been blocked off and roofed over, but -even so, part of it fell in--the part with the supplies and stuff--the -part opening on the exit. - -"Well," I said, just to say something, "what do we do now? Sit around -and wait to die?" - -The little old man wrinkled his brow in thought. He didn't seem too -worried about dying. I guess when you're his age and have a long gray -beard you get reconciled to the prospect. But I was young, and frankly -I didn't like the idea at all. - -"I think I know a way," the little old man said finally, "but it will -seem like madness. Probably it is. It's never been tried. It may never -work." - -I seized him by the lapels. "Any way is better than none. I'd rather -die trying than sitting down moping my life away. Tell it to me." - -"You won't laugh? You will take whatever I say seriously?" the little -old man asked anxiously. - -I saw he didn't want to die the object of scorn, and I saw also that he -must have something pretty odd up his sleeve. "No," I answered, "you -won't hear a peep out of me." - -"Then," said the old man, "if you can prepare yourself, you could walk -out through the rocks." - - * * * * * - -In spite of my promise, I gasped. But then I squelched myself and -thought that if I was with a lunatic, I might as well make the most -of it. He was now the other half of my universe and so standards had -changed. Facing death, any straw will do. - -"Proceed," I said. "Explain further." - -"Rocks," said the little old man--I guess he must have been a scientist -of some sort--"and all other matter are composed of nothing mainly, -with a little vibration thrown in." - -I kept my mouth shut. I wasn't going to say anything to the contrary -even if he claimed black was white. - -"Matter," he went on, "is composed entirely of atom. Atoms are broken -down to electrons and protons and their kin. They, in turn, appear to -be nothing but charges of electricity, charges of energy, not matter. -So that all matter is really just a manifestation of energy in a -peculiar state of stress." - -I waited. This made sense. I began to recognize some of the things I -had learned years ago in high school physics. - -"Between the vortices of energy which make up the building-blocks of -matter, there are comparatively vast stretches of just plain empty -space. Within the atom, almost all is vacuum. Between molecules, more -vacuum. In a so-called solid mass, it could be demonstrated that less -than a quadrillionth part of its mass has any reality and that only -in the form of disturbances of energy. And that figure is grossly -exaggerated." - -I waited. This was still making sense. And anyway, when you are -hopelessly trapped there is no sense in being impatient. - -"If," went on the professor, "you understand this and project the -picture of it in your mind, you can mentally resolve all things into -swirls of nothingness, into less than air. If you can do so, you can -attain complete control over your own body--for we alone are able to -control our own masses by means of will. - -"And if you can picture these masses of rock as pools of nothing and -yourself as the same, you can pass yourself through these rocks as a -whiff of smoke in air. You can revisualize yourself as solid outside -this trapping pile." - -I thought about it. Wild it was and yet based on real reasoning. - -"If you will give your mind to me, let me hypnotize you with your -cooperation, I think I can cause that to happen. You will then pass -through the rocks and appear outside. Then you will send for me," he -said. - -I thought that over. "Why don't you do it yourself?" I asked. - -"I am old and it is better done with an outside subject. Do not forget -that this has never been done." - -"Okay. Start," I said, suddenly making up my mind. I didn't want to die -and I would do anything, however wild, to avoid it. When one sits alone -in darkness beneath a ruined house and knows that there is no hope, a -decision like this comes normally. - -All is logical according to the conditions given. - -I gave him my flashlight and he shone it in my eyes. Then he started -weaving it and repeating what he had said about atoms and electrons and -masses of nothing. - -I watched him fascinated, and I thought of little whirlpools in empty -black space. I saw flashing ripples on a void. I saw lone lights -untended in nothingness and reflected from nothing. And I saw that they -were glowing from nothing. Light, just light. - -I saw a solitary mote pursuing an endless track across a vast area that -was utter abyss. - -Gradually the flashlight seemed to flicker and die. I felt wavy and -mistlike. I understood the meaning of matter and I saw indeed that -matter has very little real existence. - -I felt that I was upon my feet, and they were long columns of -imagination having no reality save for endless electric foam. - -I felt myself moving forward and I felt other disturbances passing -between me and around me and through me. - -Then I saw that scenes were passing before my vision and the globules -of vacua that were my eyes seemed to register as they passed through -other globules of vacua. - -I saw what seemed like a tiny planet spinning on its axis, while a -strange blue sun shone down and a dozen other planets swirled. - -I saw a figure indescribable, mounted upon a thing incredible, pursuing -the unknowable across a vast and meaningless place. - -I saw dozens of things like this--none of which can be described. Once -I saw a large machine with churning arms and it was all bubbly and yet -hard and mechanical. - -All about me moved a great current and a wave of feelingless substance. - -Then I felt a beating of forces upon me, I felt a hammering at me and I -felt a pressure pushing upon the whirling, imaginary pools of my being -and a curious coldness setting in. - - * * * * * - -I shivered and looked around. I was naked in the middle of the street; -the stars were out and the drone of airplanes audible. People were -running up and down and a hose was playing upon the front of a burning -building. The wardens were digging in some ruins with crowbars and -shovels. - -A man came running up to me and threw a blanket over my trembling -shoulders. - -"Where'd you come from? Bomb blow your clothes off? It happens." - -I pointed to the pile of bricks and junk that marked my house. - -"There's a man buried in those ruins, but he's alive," I said. "Just -trapped. 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"This is getting us nowhere," I remarked, "nowhere at all."</p> - -<p>He nodded and sat down on the hard stone. We were trapped under the -building. The house had come down over us when the bomb landed in the -street. The rest of the tenants were probably away or dead. Apparently -only the little old man who lived on the second floor rear and I had -gotten down to the bomb-proof cellar in time. And now we were trapped.</p> - -<p>"We'll have to wait until they dig us out," I said. We couldn't -possibly dig our own way out. Too much blocked us in. We were buried -beneath tons of brick, rubbish and beams. They were probably busy in -the street outside, trying to rescue the people in other, less-damaged -buildings. Then again there might be fire, and the noise effectively -blocked any chance of their hearing us.</p> - -<p>I saw him only by the light of my little pocket flash. That wouldn't -last very long. Our space was remarkably limited. This shelter had been -a part of the cellar. It had been blocked off and roofed over, but -even so, part of it fell in—the part with the supplies and stuff—the -part opening on the exit.</p> - -<p>"Well," I said, just to say something, "what do we do now? Sit around -and wait to die?"</p> - -<p>The little old man wrinkled his brow in thought. He didn't seem too -worried about dying. I guess when you're his age and have a long gray -beard you get reconciled to the prospect. But I was young, and frankly -I didn't like the idea at all.</p> - -<p>"I think I know a way," the little old man said finally, "but it will -seem like madness. Probably it is. It's never been tried. It may never -work."</p> - -<p>I seized him by the lapels. "Any way is better than none. I'd rather -die trying than sitting down moping my life away. Tell it to me."</p> - -<p>"You won't laugh? You will take whatever I say seriously?" the little -old man asked anxiously.</p> - -<p>I saw he didn't want to die the object of scorn, and I saw also that he -must have something pretty odd up his sleeve. "No," I answered, "you -won't hear a peep out of me."</p> - -<p>"Then," said the old man, "if you can prepare yourself, you could walk -out through the rocks."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>In spite of my promise, I gasped. But then I squelched myself and -thought that if I was with a lunatic, I might as well make the most -of it. He was now the other half of my universe and so standards had -changed. Facing death, any straw will do.</p> - -<p>"Proceed," I said. "Explain further."</p> - -<p>"Rocks," said the little old man—I guess he must have been a scientist -of some sort—"and all other matter are composed of nothing mainly, -with a little vibration thrown in."</p> - -<p>I kept my mouth shut. I wasn't going to say anything to the contrary -even if he claimed black was white.</p> - -<p>"Matter," he went on, "is composed entirely of atom. Atoms are broken -down to electrons and protons and their kin. They, in turn, appear to -be nothing but charges of electricity, charges of energy, not matter. -So that all matter is really just a manifestation of energy in a -peculiar state of stress."</p> - -<p>I waited. This made sense. I began to recognize some of the things I -had learned years ago in high school physics.</p> - -<p>"Between the vortices of energy which make up the building-blocks of -matter, there are comparatively vast stretches of just plain empty -space. Within the atom, almost all is vacuum. Between molecules, more -vacuum. In a so-called solid mass, it could be demonstrated that less -than a quadrillionth part of its mass has any reality and that only -in the form of disturbances of energy. And that figure is grossly -exaggerated."</p> - -<p>I waited. This was still making sense. And anyway, when you are -hopelessly trapped there is no sense in being impatient.</p> - -<p>"If," went on the professor, "you understand this and project the -picture of it in your mind, you can mentally resolve all things into -swirls of nothingness, into less than air. If you can do so, you can -attain complete control over your own body—for we alone are able to -control our own masses by means of will.</p> - -<p>"And if you can picture these masses of rock as pools of nothing and -yourself as the same, you can pass yourself through these rocks as a -whiff of smoke in air. You can revisualize yourself as solid outside -this trapping pile."</p> - -<p>I thought about it. Wild it was and yet based on real reasoning.</p> - -<p>"If you will give your mind to me, let me hypnotize you with your -cooperation, I think I can cause that to happen. You will then pass -through the rocks and appear outside. Then you will send for me," he -said.</p> - -<p>I thought that over. "Why don't you do it yourself?" I asked.</p> - -<p>"I am old and it is better done with an outside subject. Do not forget -that this has never been done."</p> - -<p>"Okay. Start," I said, suddenly making up my mind. I didn't want to die -and I would do anything, however wild, to avoid it. When one sits alone -in darkness beneath a ruined house and knows that there is no hope, a -decision like this comes normally.</p> - -<p>All is logical according to the conditions given.</p> - -<p>I gave him my flashlight and he shone it in my eyes. Then he started -weaving it and repeating what he had said about atoms and electrons and -masses of nothing.</p> - -<p>I watched him fascinated, and I thought of little whirlpools in empty -black space. I saw flashing ripples on a void. I saw lone lights -untended in nothingness and reflected from nothing. And I saw that they -were glowing from nothing. Light, just light.</p> - -<p>I saw a solitary mote pursuing an endless track across a vast area that -was utter abyss.</p> - -<p>Gradually the flashlight seemed to flicker and die. I felt wavy and -mistlike. I understood the meaning of matter and I saw indeed that -matter has very little real existence.</p> - -<p>I felt that I was upon my feet, and they were long columns of -imagination having no reality save for endless electric foam.</p> - -<p>I felt myself moving forward and I felt other disturbances passing -between me and around me and through me.</p> - -<p>Then I saw that scenes were passing before my vision and the globules -of vacua that were my eyes seemed to register as they passed through -other globules of vacua.</p> - -<p>I saw what seemed like a tiny planet spinning on its axis, while a -strange blue sun shone down and a dozen other planets swirled.</p> - -<p>I saw a figure indescribable, mounted upon a thing incredible, pursuing -the unknowable across a vast and meaningless place.</p> - -<p>I saw dozens of things like this—none of which can be described. Once -I saw a large machine with churning arms and it was all bubbly and yet -hard and mechanical.</p> - -<p>All about me moved a great current and a wave of feelingless substance.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Then I felt a beating of forces upon me, I felt a hammering at me and I -felt a pressure pushing upon the whirling, imaginary pools of my being -and a curious coldness setting in.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>I shivered and looked around. I was naked in the middle of the street; -the stars were out and the drone of airplanes audible. People were -running up and down and a hose was playing upon the front of a burning -building. The wardens were digging in some ruins with crowbars and -shovels.</p> - -<p>A man came running up to me and threw a blanket over my trembling -shoulders.</p> - -<p>"Where'd you come from? Bomb blow your clothes off? It happens."</p> - -<p>I pointed to the pile of bricks and junk that marked my house.</p> - -<p>"There's a man buried in those ruins, but he's alive," I said. "Just -trapped. You'll have to dig him out."</p> - -<p>The warden blew his whistle and out of the turmoil three other men came -with picks and equipment and began to dig.</p> - -<p>But it was two days before they finally got to him—and by that time he -was dead.</p> - -<div style='display:block; margin-top:4em'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTHING ***</div> -<div style='text-align:left'> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Updated editions will replace the previous one—the old editions will -be renamed. -</div> - -<div style='display:block; margin:1em 0'> -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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