Article Six, currently available both as a standalone book and as part of Science Fiction Short Stories: Collection One, is my latest offering to lovers of old fashioned, hard science fiction. Hope you enjoy the journey. -- C. T. Christensen, Author Technology can be of the type that has a supporting structure of other, known technologies such as the development of lasers that can be attached to a carriage that is moved under computer control and used to cut steel parts. Technology that hangs out on the edge of knowledge with only math, a couple of crude experiments, and speculation to support it would be similar to the first atomic bomb test where it was thought that it might set the atmosphere on fire. We begin with the first test of the Harrison-Lake Isolator. This technology is, definitely, of the second type and takes another 43 years to get it to do what it was hoped it would do. 196 years after that first test, very little else has been discovered about the whys and hows of isolator technology. Testing aspects of something that had such an interesting beginning creates more nervousness than interest. Of course, I am talking about planned, thoughtful testing. Once you release a technology to be used by other people--even highly trained and supervised people--those people always seem to find some way to put that technology to their own test.