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Space, Based upon a physics that has no relation whatever to terrestrial physics. The Unimites describe our conception of Space as simplistic not corresponding at all to the true reality of the Cosmos, being based on mathematical and geometrical abstractions. They describe a subatomic particle what they call the IBOZOO UU. According to the manner in which these axes - of the IBOZOO UUare orientated, we see the production of matter, energy, mass or of any other type of radiation. Furthermore, they say that there exist in Space certain folds or warps which, when the isodynamic circumstances are right, enable them to make interstellar voyages in a time that is incomprehensible for our physicists, as their craft perform a dimensional change by reversing their IBOZOO UU, which permits them to take a "short cut" without following the illusory straight lines of the propagation of light. By this means they are enabled to come here in eight or nine months from their planet UMMO, which, according to the reports supplied by them, is in orbit around the star IUMMA, located at 14.6 light-years from Earth and identified provisionally by them as the star Wolf 424 of our stellar catalogue. Among the people who were due to have participated in the meeting of the recipients there was a certain professor, the holder of a chair in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Madrid, He too, like the rest, had received telephone calls from the UMMITES. To begin with he thought that it was a joke, but when his mysterious communicant at the other end of the telephone line demonstrated that he 10 - ea himself was the possessor of medical knowledge that was out of the ordinary, the Professor invited him to come to tea in his house despite the absurdity, as he saw it, of the other party's assertion that he "came from another planet." His interlocutor declined the invitation, but said he would give him, on loan, a little piece of apparatus which would convince him. An emissary would then come, a few days later, to collect the apparatus. (This emissary was to he the copyist.) The University professor, who has related all these details in an anonymous letter which the copyist distributed among the rest of the recipients of the reports, did in fact receive a small package. When opened, it proved to contain a little square box, with no projecting parts, that is to say, with entirely smooth sides, of metallic appearance, and of a dull black colour. On one of its facets this little box had a translucent screen which was joined to the rest of the box 15 The Professor and the box