The Same Ultrawave

For previous blog posts about "Earthman, Beware!" see here.

"...the concept of waves was hardly applicable to something that traveled with an 'infinite velocity'..." (p. 52)

Indeed. And the very next comment is that "infinite velocity" is:

"...a poor term semantically, but convenient." (ibid.)

Anything that travels from A to B instantaneously either extends from A to B or exists at both A and B but not at intermediate points simultaneously.

Joel reflects that:

"...ultrawave effects...did not appear unless there was a properly tuned receiver somewhere. They seemed somehow 'aware' of a listener even before they came into existence." (ibid.)

Ramacan in "The Star Beast" explains that:

the ultrawave is "'...not electromagnetic...'" but "'...ties in with wave mechanics...'" (p. 72);

"'...it's 'aware' of the receiver and only goes to it. There must be a receiver as well as a transmitter to generate the wave.'" (p. 73)

This establishes that Joel and Ramacan refer to the same ultrawave.

Joel discovers it and Ramacan says that it:

"'...was discovered - oh, it must be a good seven or eight hundred years ago now.'" (p. 72)

I have not quite reread to the end of "Earthman, Beware!" yet. The implication of this story might be that the ultrawave is not remembered after Joel's discovery of it. But what has been discovered once can be discovered again.