After issuing his orders, Adam turned and walked toward his own office. Thanks to more than a decade of effort and training, he no longer had to handle the tedious process of experimentation himself; he only had to verify the accuracy of the data and then summarize it.
The assistants had their doubts, but Adam had never wavered in his belief in this path. Theories were built as one continuous line; there was no reason for the earlier research to hold up while the most crucial part failed. He believed they simply hadn't found the right method yet.
"Perhaps a fully scientific method of verification is, in this world, unscientific." That was the conjecture Adam had reached after ten years of failure, and from it he had designed the second experimental plan: instead of keeping ether entirely out of the experiment, treat ether as a variable and bring it in. Since the preliminary proofs were already solid, he believed a conclusion could be reached in a short time.