Captain T. J. J. See, Government mathematician, and astronomer at Mare Island, reveals to the world a discovery which beggars description. At last a scientist steps from his telescope and his nebular notes to admit that his labor has merely amounted to this: he has found Nothing. Yet even as his fellow scientists analyses the everythings which they have discovered, so he inspects his Nothing.

It really is a world gas forty seven billion times less dense than hydrogen, four thousand times smaller than hydrogen buibles. And its function is the connecting of all sorts of planets and prophets and worlds and worms. Faster than light, it has evaded the searchers of the past and has such evanescent qualities even now that Captain See sees it as a colossal a formidable Nothing.

Surely the philosopher's axiom "nothing known is worth knowing" paradoxically fits the present case. Dr. See has but admitted what the people of the time of Copernicus less statiscally expressed". Of course the fact that he has expressed it counts for something. In a nation whose state of civilization remains a bone of contention for all gnawing intellects, the existence of one man who can honestly say that he has spent a lifetime in study and glimpsed, even glimpsed Nothing, implies a certain criterion of progress.