The Pathless on Paths---------Chapter III Part 2(4)

Fine. Others proposed that it may be an experiment error, or a new type of mass destruction gone wrong in its making. An attack by an enemy state, too, seemed believable to some, and they thought that their nation was going to war. As for the official statement, no one knew. It would appear that the endlessly falling dust had the property of intercepting or interfering electromagnetic waves, or at least the wavelengths that were used for communication. What most disquieted Karrson was not the above, but a strange conversation with Mr. Noah, who proved indeed to be more than meets the eye, as Karrson had guessed.