Upon arrival in India, Jason met up with Abraham Mehta. Since it was sixty miles to the house, Jason called the science board to check on his grant. He was delighted to hear that his proposal had been approved.

It is quite surprising to find that such academic endeavors can take place in the midst of such poverty. One grant such as Jason's could have fed a village for a year-- sadly, most grants did not turn out to be as productive as his.

While contemplating the seeming inevitability of nuclear decay, Jason had began to wonder what effect a huge electric or magnetic field might have on nuclear decay. No change should be expected, and none had ever been detected, but he believed that, given sufficient equipment, some smaller, "second order" effect might be measured by sensitive equipment.

He knew that there were not sufficient resources in Abraham's house to carry out such a plan, but he hoped that he could use his sabbatical to test measuring equipment, and that he could proceed with the real research once he was back in the US.