"However," Camhorn said, "we haven't transmitted even a speck of matter
as yet. Not deliberately, at any rate. Do you know why, Gus?"
"No. How would I?"
"No rumors on that, eh? I'll tell you. Ym-400, when activated even in
microquantities, immediately initiates the most perverse, incalculable
effects ever to confront an experimenter. There has been, flatly, no
explanation for them. I've had ordinarily unimpressionable physicists
tell me with tears in their eyes that space-time is malevolently
conscious of us, and of our attempts to manipulate it--that it delights
in frustrating those attempts."