Chapter 10 Summary

This chapter is a flashback to the invention of the Infinite Improbability Drive, to provide more information about it. It was discovered by a lucky chance (naturally) by a student who had been left to sweep up the lab after a party. He thought it might make sense to feed the finite improbability of developing such a Drive into the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain hooked up to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (a nice hot cup of tea). And he was right. But shortly after being awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who couldn't stand being outsmarted.

Chapter 10 Analysis

Like an English home, no English book, movie, television show or radio series can persist very long without the introduction of a nice...