they had made themselves willing to believe that science which they found most interesting in life had no connection with life. They found the peace, which made work possible.So that from disenchantment with the science, he had progressed to contempt for its practitioners and to a still profounder contempt to what he did.Earl Fox is the first symbolic impediment for Eric. He asked Gorin what made a young man choose of all professions one in research physics. This is a question Fox could never answer.Eric is in the very strength of his life, he agreed to the arguments that there was really no fame in science, no money, and not too much happiness in terms what life has to offer.But still Eric did not comprehend and even misunderstood Earle Fox.He understood these words later, when he had gone through a lot of challenges in his life, but he found a positive answer on that question.Gorin has keys from the library, the laboratory and the assistants’ office. But nobody helps or assists him in choosing books, finding out how the apparatus works. All he encounters is indifference, impassiveness, and exhaustion. But G. is persistent and wants a “crucial experience” in physics. His providence and obstinacy soon link his future career to Tony Haviland, a good hard worker for a short period of time. Tony is more interested in fashion and money, science and success in his research is only an ambitious game. He is able to leave and go to the coast closing the laboratory and putting aside an extremely important experiment, which may influence his assistance’s future career and life.When atomic physics knowledge was very well assessed on the market Tony sold his mind to the military men without thinking of it from the aesthetical point of view.Gorin fights apathy, hypocrisy in Cumberland. But all his original ideas are scrapped, and the research is cancelled. Clark Regan, a cynic, conventional man, who thought that a war was t...
